BUCKET EXHIBITIONS Tent
TORTILLA PRINTS
TESSELLATION PRINTS
Ellie and Stewart Weadock
Setting up
under the tent that Ellie brought
The Tent Set-up
Tortilla Press Printing (white table)
Tessellation Linocuts Printing (black table)
One of our first visitors
was Lisette Chavez of
Tim Jag, the organizer of the PRINTERS PLANET, came by to make a print
TORTILLA PRESS
The white table was for making round
"street taco-sized" prints on the
Tortilla Press. The 4 inch round linocut discs were of animal images generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence) with
Midjourney:
The Tortilla Press white table
YAY!
One of the AI print images
animated with more AI (with Haiper)
We collaborated with the
OffCenter Arts table. They had hand-carved a bunch of small erasers. So after we printed an AI porcupine on the Tortilla Press, they put a silk screening squeegee in the porcupine's hands, ink with a stamp pad:
Print collaboration
made a Tortilla Print
Individual TESSELLATION Prints
The "hat" shaped tessellation linocuts made great individual prints, even though they were conceived to make
larger collaboration prints:
and we printed it immediately
We printed the tessellation linocuts
on 8x8 inch paper
Inking up John Tollett's first tessellation tile
John Tollett also carved a "hat" tessellation tile
with a shirt image
Arlene also brought a tessellation tile
which we printed
Arlene's printed tessellation tile
David Brower and Virgil Velasco's
tessellation prints
*****
We used a tube of
Print collaboration --
Karl Whitaker drew the image on the linoleum tile
and Virgil Velasco carved the linoleum
PRINT COLLABORATION
We made a collaborative print with
OffCenter Arts. They hand-carved erasers and inked them up with stamp pads:
Inking carved erasers
Adding an eraser stamp/print
to the AI porcupine print
PRINTS and AR
The javelina print concealed a
thin credit-card-sized NFC card inside the frame -- such that when one taps the print with their smart phone, an
AR Alien Javelina shows up. Go to the link under the 3D Alien Javelina on your smart phone, and then place that "Augmented Reality" (AR) Alien Javelina in the real world:
fits behind the javelina print
to conjure an Alien Javelina in the real world
The LEAF Print
Ellie printed a leaf for a little girl (although there are no photos of it).
Ellie offered to print any of the linocuts, but the little girl refused a print -- even after her grandparents encouraged her to select a one. The prints were free after all.
Then a leaf fell on the printmaking table, and the little girl said that she wanted a print of that. So Ellie inked up the leaf and ran it through the press. The little girl left, pleased with her new leaf print.
That's what makes the print demos exciting and worthwhile.
*****
- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at PRINTERS PLANET 2024
