Steamroller EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS

We are looking forward to the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA this October 10th - 13th in Silver City.

Steamroller Printing -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2022

Big steamroller print by Manuel Guerra

from the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022

The ultimate would be to make big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints with a STEAMROLLER.  We can order large 36 x 36 inch sheets of linoleum from Dick Blick.  

Then we can laser cut them down into -- 21 inch wide by 15 inch high "hat" shapes (the width/height dimensions I figured out with the "THE HAT" calculator).  Four of those would fit inside a 40 x 40 inch sheet of large paper.

Four big "hat" shapes would look like this when put together:

The design of four "hat" linoleum tiles

in a square shape

The basic idea would be to get a big "hat" linoleum carved in Tucson, one carved in El Paso, and another carved in Albuquerque to make a big steamroller print from the Southwest -- echoing the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA project that started 10 years earlier.

Highlights of the 

DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA

OTHER PRINT NEWS

Lisa Casuas gave us a carved "hat" linocut, and I printed it with the new FISKARS portable press at Quelab:

Lisa Casuas

Lisa Casuas linocut

before being inked

The FISKARS portable print set-up

I inked with an older Speedball brayer that Bobbie Fultz gave us. The new Speedball brayers are inferior as they get sticky after being cleaned (apparently because they are made of a different kind of rubber):

I inked with an older Speedball brayer

Ellie Weadock is pulling spit-bite prints:

• The SGCI print conference is going on in Puerto Rico this week.

• The PRINTERS PLANET is putting on a print market in Taos in May.

• I heard a rumor that BIG INK is coming back to Albuquerque next year, in 2026

UPCOMING Print Social Nights at Remarque Print Workshop:

• April 25, 2025
• May 23, 2025