Monday, September 16, 2024

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

We made 5 collaborative EXQUSITE TESSELLATION PRINTS during the CARVE-IT event at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe on September 14, 2024:


The framed example print, made in El Paso,
with a scrapbook of some individual tessellation tile prints


The inking and tessellation printing table


The participating printmakers contributed "hat" Tessellation tiles to make larger prints:

"Hat" Tessellation linocuts from different artists,
to be pieced together to make larger prints


The FIRST TWO Prints


Arranging the first Exquisite Tessellation Print




The final design


MIKE KIMBALL inking the whole tiles at at the same time
on the board






Cleaning the ink 
off the vinyl board before printing


Hand printing with an IRON FROG Glass Baren


When hand printing on the Kitakata paper
one can see the print come through the back side,
and therefore knows when to finish





The FIRST Print

ARTISTS:

The SECOND Print


The THIRD Print


AMY MAESTAS printing


The THIRD Print

ARTISTS:


The FOURTH and FIFTH Print


Eliza Lutz arranged and printed the fourth print


Printing with the Estampador Manual


The FOURTH Print

ARTISTS:

For the last print we inked the tiles individually, and then put them together on the board:

We inked each tile individually
for the last print


The FIFTH Print
We gave this print to Frank Rose,
the owner of HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe

ARTISTS:
Perhaps for the next event we should have Tessellation Cookies.  At Quelab we 3D printed a "hat" Tessellation cookie cutter after designing it with COOKIE CAD:


Download -- "hat-monotile-cookiecad.STL" (295.88 KB)
to 3D print a Tessellation cookie cutter


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