LITTLE BIRDS Exquisite Tessellation Prints

HOLLAND HARDIE made four good LITTLE BIRDS Exquisite Tessellation prints on Mexican Amate paper --at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque on January 31, 2025:

Animation of the four good

LITTLE BIRD Exquisite Tessellation Prints

on different colors of Mexican amate paper

ARTISTS:

• Holland Hardie
• Marian Berg
• Julie Sola
• Nicholas Tesluk
• David Brower
• Ellie Weadock
• Jessi Cross
• Virgil Velasco

HOLLAND HARDIE gave a Tiny Bird print workshop at Remarque on January 18, 2025.  That is when she suggested making -- a LITTLE BIRD Exquisite Tessellation print -- after noticing that we were printing a few bird tessellation tiles the previous week during the Remarque Open House.

Holland adjusting the pressure

on the printing press

Holland Hardie 

carved this little bird tessellation linocut

She printed with Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Burnt Umber relief ink:

Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash

 Burnt Umber relief ink

We have 8 bird Exquisite Tessellation linocuts in Albuquerque, which all printed on one sheet of paper:

8 bird Exquisite Tessellation linocuts 

FIRST PRINT

The first good print was on purple Mexican amate paper, after a test print faded on one side:

The pressure was uneven, tighter on one side than the other, so one side of the print faded.  However this could be a nice effect:

Test print 

fading on one side

Trying again

SECOND PRINT

The second print was on pink Mexican amate paper:

THIRD PRINT

The third print was on orange Mexican amate paper:

FOURTH PRINT

The fourth and last print was on yellow Mexican amate paper:

The Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Burnt Umber relief ink was easy to clean from the linocuts with baby wipes:

Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash

relief inks at Remarque

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MARIAN BERG made EXQUISITE TESSELLATION collaborative art with drawings on paper pieces, by the kids in the hospital:

The multi-colored individual tiles look great.  

• We need to individually color the linocut tiles using the Mokuhanga technique

OPEN HOUSE at REMARQUE 2025 -- SUMMARY

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque had their annual OPEN HOUSE from 2 - 4 PM, on January 11, 2025 -- to demo all the printmaking techniques that that offer.  We demoed the "Little/Big" relief printmaking as someone called it (aka EXQUISITE TESSELLATION):

Collaborative print with  an individual tessellation tile

at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP is located in Albuquerque just a few blocks east of Nob Hill -- at 3812 Central Ave SE:

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

is located just east of Nob Hill in Albuquerque

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque from 2 - 4 PM

on January 11, 2025

INDEX

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

ANTICIPATION

The anticipation builds with the flyer:

Flyer for the OPEN HOUSE

The print lovers enjoyed the demos in both the front and back studios:

Demos in the FRONT STUDIO

Demos in the BACK STUDIO

JESSICA WEYBRIGHT, one of the four owners of Remarque, watches over the demos from the

Jessica Weybright at the desk

Currently we have an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition hanging at Remarque Print Workshop:

REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS

Our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition

hanging at Remarque Print Workshop

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BLOG POSTS

CLICKING on the PHOTOS also goes to the links:

BIG Tessellation Prints --
 at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

Virgil Velasco and Ellie Weadock

pull a fresh tessellation print from the press

LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS --

 Remarque OPEN HOUSE

We printed Ellie's individual tessellation tile

with an antique LETTERPRESS

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque --

 Other Printmaking Techniques

Lincoln Draper concentrates on photo polymer printing

in the front studio

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PREVIOUS OPEN HOUSES

at Remarque Print Workshop

 2019

Remarque had an OPEN HOUSE on September 21, 2019:

Remarque Printmaking Demos

Hands-on milk carton demo at Remarque

at the OPEN HOUSE in 2019

2022

We demoed small relief prints of BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at the Remarque Print Workshop Open House in 2022 on April 30th:

Printmaking Rising

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque

April 30, 2022

Printmaking Rising

An OPEN HOUSE visitor in 2022

prints on our TORTILLA Press

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THE MOVE

This is the last OPEN HOUSE at the Nob Hill location.  Remarque is moving to the old Tortuga Art Space at 901 Edith Blvd SE in Albuquerque in the summer:

Moving

Remarque is moving to the old Tortuga Art Space

February 3, 2024

They were already sprucing up the new Tortuga Art Space

last February 2023

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• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque is mostly an etching studio, and the main event on January 11, 2025 was to demonstrate all the printmaking techniques they work with:

OPEN HOUSE announcement

at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

Anne Steen silk-screening in the back studio

FRONT STUDIO

The main course was happening in the FRONT STUDIO -- Photo Polymer plate printing, Copper plate etching, and monotype:

Entrance to the front studio

The Front Studio

MONOTYPE

MARY SUNDSTROM demoed monotype printmaking:

Mary Sundstrom monoprint set-up

Tracing the image

Removing an inked acrylic see-thru plate,

with the sketch below it

COPPERPLATE INTAGLIO

MONIKA PARKER demoed etching from copper plates:

The etching set-up

with all the colored inks laid out on cardboard tabs

ready to apply to the copper etching plate

Monika with drawing next to her print

Monika's etching

PHOTO POLYMER 

LINCOLN DRAPER, one of the four owners of Remarque, demoed the photo polymer process. One can transfer a photo image to a photo polymer plate, and print it like it were a copperplate etching:

Lincoln applying ink to the photo polymer plate

Printing the photo polymer plate on a press

Lincoln briefly stored the print in a plastic bag, so that the damp paper would not shrink when the water evaporated.  This is critical when printing a second plate over the first, in order that the printing plates register perfectly on the paper:

Temporarily storing the print in a plastic bag,

before printing over it with a second plate

The final photo polymer masterpiece

BACK STUDIO

More printmaking demos happened in the back studio -- Screenprint, Mokuhanga, Exquisite Tessellation relief printmaking, and Mezzotint:

Entrance to the back studio

MEZZOTINT

HOLLAND HARDIE demoed these small mezzotint plates:

Small mezzotint copper plates

SILK SCREEN

ANNE STEEN demoed the silk-screening process in the back studio:

The transparencies,

that were exposed onto the screens

Anne about to screen the first color, red

The final red and black silkscreen prints

Anne paints directly onto the screen

showing off the silkscreen monoprint technique

Silkscreen masterpieces

• OPEN HOUSE at REMARQUE 2025 -- SUMMARY

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques