What’s a “Gallinero?”

What’s a “gallinero” and why should you want to stay there?

Anglo-Spanish Printmaker Launches Learning Videos

Granada-based master printmaker, Maureen Booth of Pomegranate Editions, announces her new Printmaking Master Classes series of printmaking learning videos, now available for download.

Maureen Booth in her studio for the Printmaking Master Classes videos shoot.

Small World, Milanese Connection, First Writer

Our old friend, Barbara Mason (from the Atelier Meridian in Portland, Oregon), was kind enough last summer to recommend my etching workshop to a friend called Mary Marjerrison. Mary showed up a couple of weeks ago with her friend, the author, Nancy Tomasetti, the Gallinero’s first writer. Did they come from Oregon? No, they came from Milan, Italy, where they both live. It’s a small world. Hence the silly title of this post.

Mary, who works in administration at an international school in Milan was able to rob a week for printmaking thanks to the very civilized Italian tradition of the “Settimana bianca,” a week off school in March. Perhaps it’s because she was previously an art teacher, or because of her high energy level (How many grandmothers do you know who run marathons?), but Mary got straight down to work, preparing her solar-print acetates in the Gallinero in the evenings and showing up in the studio each morning prepared to burn the images onto plates.

A Sweet Idea (with a tip of the hat to Printeresting.org)

The World Printmakers Group of Printmaking Websites on a Prezi presentation.

This new World Printmakers’ flyer is the cover shot of a mini-presentation done in a program we’ve just discovered (www.prezi.com). We suggest you print up WP_Group_6 and post it on your bulletin board.

We got the idea here from Printeresting.org. The good news is that you can use it, too.

Don’t wait. Start now!

Print Workshop Central Offers Your Print Studio a Specialized Presence on the Web

Participate in Print Workshop Central and Increase Your Visibility, Your Contacts and Your Business

Ten years of online fine-art-print advocacy have taught us that a single Internet  presence is not enough. The more–and more qualified–places you appear on the World Wide Web, the better for your print studio’s business. So start incrementing your presence now by joining Print Workshop Central. It has never been so easy.

Andy MacDougall’s Secret New Venues for Selling Prints

What Do You Love? Rock ‘n Roll, Cars, Football, Flowers, Computers?
Why Not Market Your Images at Their Respective Trade Fairs?

A couple of weeks ago our friend, Andy MacDougall, the master screen printer based in Royston, BC off the west coast of Canada, (You may know him as the Mayor of www.squeegeeville.com. ) wrote this comment on one of the discussion threads on the Cut the Gallery Out of the Picture website.  I found his remarks fascinating, as they seemed to point the way to new venues for printmakers to market their art.  Andy says:

World Printmakers Launches “Print Universe,” a New Social Network and Resource Site for Print People Everywhere

“Where printmakers worldwide can get their heads together…”

Print Universe, the new social network for fine-art print people, has joined the family of World Printmakers sites and resources for the fine-art-print community. Print Universe, online in beta version since the first of August, offers fine-art-print people display areas for images and videos, forums for opinions and discussion, a very complete tool for announcing events, another for inviting new members, and a blog for every member, among other features.

Since the new network has had an enthusiastic reception among the beta users, who are maintaining high levels of participation, we have decided to present Print Universe in society.

We would like to invite all members and readers of Print Workshop Central to have a look at this new network, to become members  (just click on “Join Up” at the upper right of the main page), and to invite their printmaker and print lover friends to join, too.  We think you’ll find it interesting, rewarding and fun. It’s also free.

Impetuous Young Printmaker Wonders Where to Go with Paris?

This is a Plea for a Press

Mark Andrew Webber is the industrious young British printmaker who recently created a short animated video made up of nearly 300 linocuts. He has also linocut his way through maps of four of his favorite cities.  His last one, Paris, is so ambitious (image size: 150×180 cm.) that he can’t find a press big enough to print it on. This note is a plea to the Print Workshop Central experts for information leading to a press large enough to do the job. I’d like to help this young man if we can. He’s creative  and hard working enough to deserve it, I think.

You can see more photographs of the almost-finished Paris linocut on this Flickr display: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandrewwebber/

Or Webber’s interview on World Printmakers: http://www.worldprintmakers.com/english/linomation.htm

Or his own website: http://www.markandrewwebber.com/

Why didn’t Webber think beforehand about the press required to print his giant linocut? Didn’t you ever build a boat too big to get out of the garage?

Dalí at Sea – Our Old Friend Salvador is Back, with Friends

“The surreal case of Dali’s art and the squandered legacy” from today’s Independent.

What ever happened to “caveat emptor?”

“Who will say that Hockney’s (digital) prints are not ‘original’ prints?” Not us, certainly.

Print Workshop Central received another interesting comment from Julia Matcham recently and I think it’s important enough to bring out to the first page and address it. Here’s Julia’s comment:

“I just thought I would draw people’s attention to the fact that David Hockney has just had an exhibition in London of inkjet prints entirely drawn into the computer using a graphics pad (as I do these days). As he says in the introduction to his catalogue (Annely Juda Gallery) ‘the computer is just a tool’. It is as good as you are.

“Autumn Leaves” by David Hockney

Who will say that Hockney’s prints are not ‘original prints’? I think the hand-print brigade are on a sticky wicket here! Not that I don’t appreciate that there are differences; just that definitions other than ‘ this print does not exist in any other form’ are out-of-date.”