BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: CNM -- Tessellation Printing

We made three EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints at on the westside campus of CNM (Central New Mexico Community College) in Albuquerque on September 17th, 2024:

CNM Westside Campus

in Albuquerque

We brought 28 "hat" tiles to select from

(which is not all of them)

The last and THIRD print

Ellie Weadock working the Takach Press,

with the print instructor Aaron Bass

Ellie printed with Speedball Professional Relief Ink colors, on Kitakata paper

Ellie mixed three colors to print with

Inking with Vigor!

FIRST PRINT

Ellie and Aaron ran some blank tessellation tiles through the Takach Press first, to adjust to the best calibration:

A run with blank linocuts

was the way to calibrate the press

The first print was too skewed to the edge because we did not register the paper well -- however it printed really well on the press:

Ellie inked each linocut individually

with different colored inks

Starting to compose the tiles

on the press

Ready to run through the press

A good pressing

will shine right through the Kitakata paper

The first run printed well,

however the image was skewed too close to the edge

on the paper

SECOND PRINT

The second print was composed a lot better:

Artists:

This time Ellie outlined the dimensions of the Kitataka paper (16" x 20")on newsprint first, so that she could compose the tessellation linocuts on the newsprint:

Outlining the dimensions of the Kitakata paper

onto the newsprint --

then Ellie will compose the linocuts tiles on the newsprint

THIRD PRINT

We finished the third print just as the printmaking class was beginning:

Artists:

STUDIO PHOTOS

We leaned a framed tessellation print from El Paso

against the dry erase board to show off the project

Valerya Baker's relief print in progress

The focus of that day's class

was silk screen printmaking

Ellie Weadock's silk screen print edition

Ellie Weadock's next silk screen print

in progress

THANK YOU!

We thank AARON BASS, the printmaking instructor, for letting us demonstrate the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printmaking in his class.

Thank you AARON BASS!

It was Aaron's critical suggestion to hand-print on Kitakata paper that made all the difference. Without Kitakata paper we would not be printing EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints.

Also we have worked with Aaron before, when he cut the paper for our AMBOS LADOS INTENATIONAL Print Exchange, and gave us a lot of other advice when he was working at Takach Press in 2018. Aaron also submitted a print to that print exchange:

Aaron Bass and Alan Takach in 2018

cutting down paper into 8x8 inch squares

for the AMBOS LADOS print exchange

Before that, in 2016, we crossed paths with Aaron at the SGCI Print Conference in Portland (but did not meet each other then)

We thank ELLIE WEADOCK, our printmaking-partner-in-crime, for setting up the printmaking session at CNM, and also for printing and "project-managing" our other printmaking endeavors: