Santa Fe -- Exquisite Tessellation Print

On June 28th we printed an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION PRINT at the Santa Fe Community College, driving up from Albuquerque to get a couple of linocuts from Santa Fe:

We left a print with Mike Kimball,

who teaches at the Santa Fe Community College,

and let us use the studio

Ellie Weadock and John Tollett

Ellie contemplates the design

Inking with Speedball SuperGraphic Black Relief Ink

We put a piece of Kitakata paper

underneath the rubbery clear vinyl,

so that we can register the paper

It's not always entirely obvious

how the pieces are going to fit together

Greta Young of Santa Fe

gave us a linocut tile

The rubbery clear vinyl

keeping the linocuts from moving,

and cleans easy when ink gets on it

Inking Mary Sundstrom's linocut

Ken Romig's linocut tile

Printing by hand

using the "Estampador Manual"

from Arteina of Barcelona

We can see the print

on the back side of the Kitakata paper

Touching up by burnishing

with a spoon

The First REVEAL!

The FIRST PRINT

ARTISTS of the first print:

• Ken Romig
• Kevin Burke
• Daniel Allen
• Greta Young
• Mary Sundstrom
• Martin Terry
• Jeanette Cook

Ellie Weadock, John Tollett and Mike Kimball

Mike Kimball's linocut

The SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS of the second print:

• Jeanette Cook (2)
• Mike Kimball
• Virgil Velasco
• Mary Sundstrom
• Greta Young
• Daniel Allen
• Ellie Weadock
• Nancy Magnusson

COLORS

We also made our first color print -- using tubes of the Speedball Professional Relief Inks:

Mixing colors

Ellie Weadock's linocut 

in color

The COLOR TESSELLATION PRINT

ARTISTS of the color print:

• Casandra Encinias
• Bobby Orr
• Ellie Weadock
• Greta Young
• Mary Sundstrom
• Daniel Allen
• Mike Kimball
• Karl Whitaker
• Virgil Velasco

We packed the prints inside a large newsprint pad, in order to carry them home:

Fresh prints

packed inside a large newsprint pad

The fresh prints on Kitakata paper, newsprint and board all fit in this rigid portfolio below, which is easy to carry around and take everything home:

Rigid Portfolio

It's also easy to carry the tessellation "hat" linocuts in a small plastic box:

20 Tessellation "hat" linocuts

fit in this 0.07 litre Really Useful Box

The ink and brayers fit in a nice pan with a lid, making them easy to carry around too:

Ink and brayers in a pan with a lid,

which we also used to print at the Albuquerque Rail Yards

We have to figure out a way to frame and show the prints.  We had to trim the paper to fit in this 16x20 Walmart frame:

We framed the first legitimate tessellation print

made at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque

CLEAN UP

We cleaned the ink off the linocuts with baby oil and alcohol. Using water make the linocuts warp:

Cleaning the linocuts

with baby oil, alcohol and baby wipes