BIG INK is coming to Albuquerque at FUSION -- on Saturday and Sunday, April 13th and 14th, 2024 -- printing from 9 AM - 5 PM each day:
PRINT PROGRESS ANIMATION
Progress on our collaborative BIG INK woodblock
January to April 2024
This post is of the progress of the BUCKET EXHIBTIONS team -- Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock and Henry Morales -- which will print on Saturday, April 13th:
WHITE SANDS
The theme is WHITE SANDS in New Mexico -- inspired by the 23,000 year old human footprints and the atomic bomb:
An idea what the final print might look like
taking into account the reverse aspect of printmaking
Ellie painted an MDF board of 28" x 48" ...
Painted blue
and cut into three pieces,
...and then she cut this board into three 16" x 24" panels -- one for each artist to carve individually:
The team receives their woodblocks in bubble wrap
on January 9th
The first sketches,
January 16th
Collective drawing on the woodblocks,
January 23rd
Virgil's sketch of a mammoth skull
January 23rd
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Ellie's sketch of a giant sloth
January 23rd
Henry's sketch of a horse
January 23rd
On January 30th, 2024 the team got got together in Henry Morales' studio to work on their blocks, so that they integrate together:
Working together in Henry's studio
on January 30th
Virgil's drawing transferred
with carbon paper
Henry's drawing directly onto the wood
The FIRST CUTS
Ellie made her first cut on January 23rd,
and Henry and Virgil made their first cuts on January 29th
Ellie made a mini-proof of her Coelophysis dinosaur fossil
with a Print Frog glass baren
on January 29th
Virgil's woodblock
included a fossil mammoth skull underground
(February 12, 2024)
Virgil's mammoth skull underground
developed by March 19th
HEATING UP...in February
In February 2024 the progress heated up steadily:
Ellie and Henry compare woodblocks
on February 13th
The design comes together
on February 20th
Virgil draws into Ellie's woodblock
The three woodblocks
on February 27th
Virgil's and Ellie's woodblocks together
detail
Ellie added footprints
of a Terror Bird to her middle section
(February 28, 2024)
MARCH MADNESS
Getting together in Henry's studio
on March 5th
Virgil refining his drawing
Cassandra
makes a celebrity cut on Ellie's woodblock
The three woodblocks together
on March 5th
Ellie's progress
(March 10, 2024)
Ellie and Henry's woodblocks
on March 12th
Ellie finished carving the bottom
(March 15, 2024)
FIRST PROOF
Virgil's block
Ellie's block
Henry's block
The first proof was of Virgil Velasco's block on March 19, 2024:
Henry inks Virgil's woodblock
The Reveal!
Virgil Velasco's proof print
SECOND PROOF
The status of the blocks as of April 5, 2024:
Virgil's block
Ellie's block
Henry's block
Detail of Henry's block
Ellie Weadock made a proof of her woodblock in the CNM studio:
Ellie Weadock's proof
(April 12, 2024)
Ellie's cut into the block a bit
after the first proof
(April 9, 2024)
Henry Morales' woodblock
(April 11th, 2024)
FUSION
BIG INK is printing at FUSION in Albuquerque -- 700 1st Street, NW (just south of Lomas):
Meanwhile, other BIG INK printmakers are making their own progress:
Instagram (mostly) screen captures
of what some of the other BIG INK artists
are bringing to print in Albuquerque
Instagram posts of BIG INK blocks to be printed in Albuquerque:
SWEET 16 Printmakers
BIG INK published a list of all the SWEET 16 artists printing in Albuquerque on Saturday and Sunday, April 13th and 14th, 2024:
April 13th
- HELEN SHAFER GARCIA: 27″ x 35″
- OLIVIA BRADSTREET: 30″ x 40″
- PETER M MARTIN: 40″ x 41″
- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS (Henry Morales, Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock): 28" x 48"
- LYNN LEAHY: 30″ x 40″
- STEPHANIE WEINER:36″ x 48″
- JULIE SOLA: 36″ x 48″, Two Additional Prints
- RACHAEL BROWN: 32″ x 48″
- JULIANNA KIRWIN: 24″ x 60″
April 14th
- OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT (Ashley Kincaid, September Benson, and Alden Sobol): 36″ x 48″
- OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT II (Mika Maloney, Zimmy Zimmer-Chu, Dre Rivera): 36″ x 48″
- THE CROOKED MAN PRESS TEAM (Christopher Bardey, Adrian Aguirre, and Francisco Delgado): 36″ x 72″
- JENNIFER JAMES
- JANET SHAGAM: 24″ x 40″
- CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS
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