First Friday -- Deck The Walls

The second reception on December 1, 2023, at the North Fourth Art Center -- for the "Deck the Walls"-- was more subdued than the big opening on November 10, 2023, but still a lot of fun: 

Barbara and Laurence ham it up,

while Virgil and Ellie make prints

Ben Harrison prints with his feet

on a rocking board

while playing guitar

The video of Ben Harrison multi-tasking, 

printing and playing guitar at the same time

The print

(carved by Ellie Weadock)

Our 88 prints

hung in the hallway

The main front gallery

Ellie and Virgil printing

Mandy McBride makes her print

on the Tortilla Press

The first print came out faint, 

but still had a lot of charm

Mandy McBride with her darker print

Second pass with a glass Tadpole Print Frog baren

The under-the-table drying rack,

an innovation between Ellie and Virgil

Inking two colors,

printing one time

Ellie's bunny print

Virgil's two color print

Mixing new colors

Inking with a terracotta color

Mark Woody's print

Ellie packages Mark's print

in an envelop

with a tracing paper cover sheet

Printing on Henry Morale's 

letter press proofing press

on the floor

Barbara Endicott's prints (top)

in different colors

A satisfied visitor

with his fresh print

We did not use the Sizzix Big Shot at the opening, but had tried printing with it the night before at Quelab and it worked nicely.  The Sizzix Big Shot Plus will accommodate a 9 inch piece of paper, so we are ordering one of those:

We did not even get to the Big Shot press --

this was done at Quelab the night before

Joe Forrest Sackett

in front of his sculptures

Photographer Sterling Van Deren Coke

standing in front of his works

Essence of Horned Toad Prints

of El Paso

We hope to send some of these prints to Rich to exhibit in Lima, Peru.