BUCKET EXHIBITIONS

On Monday, November 10, 2025, we made 3 more big collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints at the westside CNM campus (Central New Mexico Community College):

3 Big collaborative tessellation linocut prints on the wall,

by artists from Albuquerque and Las Vegas, New Mexico

ARTISTS:

Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
Ellie Weadock (Albuquerque)
Julie Sola (Las Vegas, New Mexico)

Scott, Aaron Bass (instructor) and Ellie Weadock

pulling a big collaborative tessellation print

on 31.5x47.25 inch Rives BFK paper

REPRINTS

We reprinted 4 of the 11 big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION LINOCUTS -- that we had originally printed in Silver City with a steamroller at the Southwest Print Fiesta in October; and then also reprinted at the OPEN HOUSE at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque in November:

Steamrolling big collaborative steamroller tessellation prints

at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, NM

Reprinting four of the big tessellation linocuts

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

FIRST PRINT

The first and biggest print was by 3 Albuquerque artists from Henry Morales' studio:

Virgil Velasco, Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock

ARTISTS:

Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
Ellie Weadock (Albuquerque)

Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, and Virgil Velasco working in Albuquerque on a previous collaborative print together, a BIG INK collaboration in 2024:

Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, and Virgil Velasco

working on a collaborative BIG INK print in 2024

Ellie adjusting the pressure on the Takach Press

Luxurious inking station

Cranfield Safe Wash Relief Inks

We used three Cranfield Safe Wash Relief Inks:

The REVEAL!

Pinning up the print

SECOND PRINT

The second print was from big linocuts by Virgil Velasco and Julie Sola:

Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque) and

Julie Sola (Las Vegas, New Mexico)

ARTISTS:

Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
Julie Sola (Las Vegas, New Mexico)

Julie Sola in her studio

in Las Vegas, New Mexico

THIRD PRINT

We pulled a third print on black Somerset paper, using Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Ink Soft Shades. The linocuts were from Ellie Weadock and Julie Sola:

Ellie Weadock and Julie Sola

ARTISTS:

Ellie Weadock (Albuquerque)
Julie Sola (Las Vegas, New Mexico)

Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Ink Soft Shades

Rolling on the Caligo Soft Pink ink

Rolling on the Caligo Mustard Yellow ink

Cleaning Up with Baby Oil

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Last year (2024) we also pulled EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints at the CNM studio on the westside of Albuquerque:

We pulled small EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints

at CNM westside campus in 2024

CONCLUSION

There is life for the Big EXQUISITE TESSELLTION Linocuts after the Steamroller Printing in Silver City during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025!

The big tessellation linocuts look great as individual prints:

Henry Morales' individual big tessellation linocut

They also look great when printed as a pair -- moreover it is easier to store and handle 22 x 30 inch paper:

Big tessellation linocuts

printed as a pair

Perhaps the best solution is when both the large and small EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts are printed together, and in color:

Big and small tessellation linocuts

printed together in color

PRINTMAKING by MAIL

Lastly both these big and small EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts can easily be sent in the mail, to make collaborative prints outside of New Mexico, and even in other countries. I can imaging making a collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print in Florida, with linocuts from New Mexico, Texas, New York, Mexico, Canada, etc...

Even better if someone else took over...this is not a proprietary project:

The small and big tessellation linocuts

are mirrored from each other

Also THANK YOU to DAVID SMITH, the mathematician who discovered this "hat"shape aperiodic monotile in 2022.

Sunday, November 9, 2025

REMARQUE OPEN HOUSE -- Big Tessellations and Detonography

During Remarque Print Workshop's OPEN HOUSE on November 2, 2025 -- we continued making prints from the large EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts that we used for big collaborative Steamroller Prints during the recent Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City. We also made a print from a plate "etched" by explosives with Detonography:

Remarque Print Workshop's OPEN HOUSE

on November 2, 2025

Remarque Print Workshop

new location in Albuquerque

BIG TESSELLATION PRINTS

We reprinted some of the big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts that we originally printed with a steamroller, during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 in Silver City, NM. The initial idea was to print two big tessellation linocuts on a 22x30 inch piece of paper:

Barbara Endicott reveals the print on the Day of the Dead

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

We gave this print to Virgil Velasco, as the large red tessellation was from his linocut. This was in Barbara Endicott's studio during the Albuquerque South Valley Studio Tour on November 9, 2025:

Virgil Velasco receives the big print a week later,

at Barbara Endicott's studio

(his big red linocut dominated the print)

We printed with

Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Inks

Printing in the basement of Remarque

Jessica Weybright gave us lots of help

FIRST PRINT

ARTISTS:

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

Anne Steen collaborated with us by first silk-screening a yellow background:

Cutting out parchment paper

to mask out part of the screen

Gluing the paper to the screen

with spray adhesive

THIRD PRINT

ARTISTS:

Virgil Velasco
Burke Gurney
Li Chu (zimmy)
Jane Buffo

Casandra Encinias and Barbara Endicott

DETONOGRAPHY

Chris Cherry gave us a bronze plate that was created by Detonography -- a process pioneered by Evelyn Rosenberg, using explosions to etch an image into bronze. Holland Hardie printed the plate with the intaglio method, and got a fairly nice result using Prussian Blue pigment: