Printing Tessellations with Henry

We pulled three new Collaborative Color EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints at Sir Henry Morales' studio on January 13, 2026.  Henry is having an exhibition at the Juan Tabo Public Library in Albuquerque in February -- like he did last year -- and wanted to included his printmaking posse:

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Animation of the 3 prints

that we made by hand

2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse

(horses by Ellie Weadock and Casandra Encinas)

We hand printed three 

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

We printed in Color!

We hand printed with glass barens --

two from Iron Frog, two Antique door knobs,

 and a blue glass paper weight

Hand printing with glass barens

We printed in Henry Morales' studio

FIRST PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Virgil Velasco
• Karl Whitaker
• Ellie Weadock
• Casandra Encinas
• Henry Morales
• Casandra Encinas 
• Mary Sundstrom

Casandra touching up her linocut

with an electric Customizer Engraving Pen

Virgil Velasco and Ellie Weadock conferring

as Casandra Encinas looks on

We thought about inking up the back side

of one of the tessellation linocuts

Henry Morales jumps in --

we printed in his studio

Stewart Weadock looks on

as Virgil Velasco arranges the linocuts

The Speedball Professional Ultramarine Blue ink

dried out, so we had to dig through the top

to get fresh ink in the tube

Karl's print comes out first in the reveal --

Henry Morales actually did the carving on this print

The Reveal!

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Ellie Weadock
• Casandra Encinas
• Virgil Velasco
• Mary Sundstrom
• Roller
• Henry Morales
• Casandra Encinas 
• Henry Morales

Henry Morales uses a thin brayer

to roll on a line of red

onto Mary Sundstrom's fish print

Red lines along the spines

of both fish

Henry used a textured bumpy roller

(that he found at a swap meet)

to ink an uncut linoleum tile with red texture

Laying down the Kitakata paper 

Pressing the paper down onto the linocuts

Rubbing the glass baren onto the paper --

notice that you can see the image coming through

the other side of the Kitakata paper

The Reveal!

REVISION

Later we added a half-disc print -- the red bird by Virgil Velasco -- to the edge of the paper to balance out the composition:

The revised print --

with a half disc image added to the edge

Contemplating all the prints,

before deciding to revise the second print

Virgil printed with a glass baren, with a paper towel

 over the unprinted part of the linocut disc

Virgil printed only half

of the linocut disc

THIRD PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Casandra Encinas
• Casandra Encinas
• Mary Sundstrom 
• Ellie Weadock
• Henry Morales
• Roller
• Karl Whitaker
• Virgil Velasco

The Reveal!

The FINAL 3 Prints!

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Henry Morales carved three new EXQUISITE TESSELLATION tessellation linocuts for the session.  He even cut out one of the tessellation shapes with scissors:

Henry cut this tessellation shape

out with scissors

All 3 of Henry's new tessellation linocuts

on the right

Henry Morales also pulled this fish print

at the end of the session

Ellie's small Coelophysis print

floated around the studio