BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: Skateboard Press

We also took out the Skateboard Press to make 8x8 inch prints during the PRINTED MATTER Festival in Santa Fe on July 10, 2022:

Chander Wigton printing with ease on the Skateboard

Tim Torres making the first Skateboard print

Yvette Serano makes a print on the Skateboard Press

Yvette Serano had her table set up right next to us in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van. Fortunately we got to talk to her at the end of the print festival -- note her Provisional Press, a letterpress printmaking press made with a laser cutter.

Yvette Serano holds up the Alejandra Mares print

she made on the Skateboard Press

We made Skateboard Prints

during the PRINTED MATTER Festival

in Santa Fe, on July 10th,, 2022

Krrrl holding up the Skateboard Press

he brought to the print festival

We inked up the linocut, but rather than lay it on the tortilla press, we laid it on a cutting mat. Then we put the paper on top of the print, laying a larger piece of linoleum over that, and finally a towel as the top of the sandwich. Finally we solicited a younger person to rock over the print with the Skateboard Press:

After putting paper on top of the inked linocut,

we laid the larger tan piece of linoleum over it,

and then a white towel over that,

before rocking over it with the Skateboard Press

UPDATE (July 19): We made more Skateboard Press prints in front of Site Santa Fe on Saturday morning, July 16, 2022:

Printmaking with a skateboard

in front of Site Santa Fe on July 16th

BACKGROUND

We followed the suggestion and plans by Joseph Velazquez of Drive By Press for making a Skateboard Press for printmaking:

Joseph Velazquez of Drive By Press,

explains how to make a Skateboard Press

Joseph Velazquez made his first Skateboard prints at our Desert Triangle Print Carpeta opening in Delray, Florida, just above Miami. We hired him to come to our opening in 2018: