PRINTERS PLANET TAOS 2025 -- Preparation

Ellie Weadock, Daniel Allen and I are headed up to Taos this weekend to demo prints and hand them out for free at THE PRINTERS PLANET TAOS pop-up print market -- on Saturday and Sunday (May 24-25, 2025), from noon to 6 PM:

THE PRINTERS PLANET TAOS

• This event is advertised on LIVE TAOS

 TAOS NEWS

Taos News published an article in TEMPO (May 23, 2025)-- PRINTERS PLANET BRINGS POP-UP MARKET TO THE STABLES

Article in TAOS NEWS

features photo of Tim Jag

• The printmaker Gathering/Party is at the ALLEY CANTINA -- near the plaza, 121 Teresina Ln -- Saturday, May 24th, 7 PM till...

STABLES GALLERY

This is happening at the STABLES GALLERY, on the grounds of the TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS -- at 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos:

Print Demo at the Taos Center for the Arts

STABLES GALLERY

We will be bringing our new FISKARS Portable Press to make 8x8 inch prints, and give them out for free:

PORTABLE PRESS

The FISKARS Portable Press

We had a printmaking DRESS REHEARSAL during the figure drawing session at FUSION in Albuquerque, on May 21, 2025, to make sure that the new portable press worked well:

May 21, 2025

Ellie and Daniel printing on May 21, 2025,

during the figure drawing session at FUSION 

PRINTS

We carved new 6x6 inch linocuts to print on 8x8 inch paper in Taos:

May 21, 2025

Ellie Weadock

May 21, 2025

Daniel Allen

VIRGIL VELASCO

Virgil Velasco carved three linoleums for us to print in Taos:

Virgil holding up his three linocuts

HENRY MORALES

Henry Morales gave us six linocuts, 6x6 inches square, to print in Taos:

La Lechuza

Henry Morales with my print

I laser engraved into linoleum -- AI images based on my figure drawings:

AI Laser Engraved -- Linocut Prints

The proofs of my prints

of AI images based on my drawings,

laser engraved into linoleum

STAMPS

I ordered a couple of custom stamps at Made To Order Stamp & Seal in Albuquerque.  

They sold non-toxic Tattoo Inkpads, so I bought three colors and ordered a Roadrunner stamp.  The idea is to stamp on the skin of willing visitors when we demo prints in Taos.  I also bought a Speedy-Carve, which will flex around the skin.  That way we can carve our own images for the temporary tattoos:

Roadrunner stamp

for making temporary Tattoos

Street Taco Sized -- AI Linocuts

I ordered a custom stamp of this Roadrunner

from Made to Order Stamp and Seal,

for making temporary tattoos

I have been wanting to use prints to make temporary tattoos ever since I saw Tres Gatos Press do this in Guadalajara:

Ambos Lados Closing

Tres Gatos Press

making temporary tattoos in Guadalajara

I also made a custom stamp with our BUCKET EXHIBITIONS URL on it, to pass out to people during the print markets:

I ordered a custom stamp of our blog URL

from Made to Order Stamp and Seal,

for making business cards

Our BUCKET EXHIBITIONS business card

made with a stamp

PASSING THE "HATS"

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Party Prints

I want to pass out Expanded PVC Foam "hat" shapes to the printmakers at the party on Saturday night.  The idea is buy a pitcher of beer, give the artists some ball point pens, and ask them to press an image on the foam tessellation tiles.  Then at the end of the night we could make a big collaborative tessellation print, like we did in El Paso last year.

Adam cut down a big stack of Expanded PVC Foam into tessellation "hats" for me, using the CNC at Quelab, so we have plenty to work with:

Expanded PVC Foam -- Tessellation Tiles

Tessellation "hat" shape

in Expanded PVC Foam

Expanded PVC Foam -- Tessellation Tiles

Stack of foam "hat" shapes

Expanded PVC Foam -- Tessellation Tiles

The tessellation "hat" shapes 

all fit together to make a bigger print

The artists do not need sharp and expensive knives to cut into the Expanded PVC Foam -- they can press into the foam with Ball Point Pens and Ball Modeling leather tools:

Expanded PVC Foam -- Tessellation Tiles

Ball Point Pens and Ball modeling tools

are all that is needed to press a design into the tessellation foam

Henry Morales pressed into the Expanded PVC Foam to make this wonderful print below, as proof-of-concept:

Printmaking -- Second Wind

Henry Morales created this print

with the Expanded PVC Foam

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

We will be talking to Kyle in Taos, about the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 in Silver City, New Mexico. We want to make big STEAMROLLER EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints there in October:

Steamroller EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS

Big Steamroller Print

during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints

We laser cut big tessellation tiles into "hat" shapes

and gave them to artists to carve

with the idea of making a steamroller print

AMBOS LADOS 2020

Previously we showed the AMBOS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE at the Taos Center for the Arts in 2020, and had a great show there:

Summary -- Taos Center for the Arts exhibition

The opening reception in Taos in 2020

for Ambos Lados

MATERIAL

Big things to bring:

• Portable press, with the bed
• 8x8 inch paper
• Ink, brayers and inking pans

• Tortilla Press and round linocuts
• Tessellation linocuts
• Japanese paper for tessellation prints
• Glass baren

Little things not to forget to bring:

• Tables
• Baby wipes
• Garbage bag
• Double sided wood tape
• Folders and paper, to carry the fresh prints in

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

Also note that the Pastel Society of New Mexico has an exhibit -- ENCHANTED COLORS --  at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, ending on June 1, 2025.

There are two Gene Kloss exhibitions in Taos while we are there:

• Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Lunder Research Center-- Saturday, 1 - 5PM -- 146 Kit Carson Road
• Harwood Museum of Art -- 11 AM - 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday -- 238 Ledoux St

Snow Mansion in Arroyo Seco