FAT CROW PRESS -- Color Tessellation SUMMARY

We had a great time making Color EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints with JULIE SOLA at her studio -- FAT CROW PRESS -- in Las Vegas, New Mexico on July 24, 2025:

We pulled two big color EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

FAT CROW PRESS

is located in this historic building

in Las Vegas, New Mexico

PLAYLIST of our printmaking at FAT CROW PRESS:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION printing at FAT CROW PRESS

LETTERPRESS

We made our first prints

on Julie's big letterpress

Made on the Letterpress

ETCHING PRESS

We used the big Etching Press

to make the large EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

Our large experimental color

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

JULIE SOLA used to work for HATCH SHOW PRINT in Nashville, making poster for musicians like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash: 

The posters that Julie Sola

made at Hatch Show Print in Nashville

Julie Sola made this poster

for Willie Nelson

Sergio

STEAMROLLER

TESSELLATION

Julie Sola also finished carving her large EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut to print with a STEAMROLLER at the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City on October 12, 2025:

Julie Sola's large steamroller tessellation linocut

(next to the smaller stiff foam curvy tessellation tiles)

Video of Julie proofing her big tessellation linocut for the Steamroller Press:

Las Vegas Tessalation Project: clip 5

John Tollett and Karl Whitaker

overwhelmed by how smoothly the printmaking went

THE SKILLET

Afterwards we had to order a few hamburgers at THE SKILLET, just next door to FAT CROW PRESS:

Karl standing in front of THE SKILLET

Inside THE SKILLET

THE SKILLET has an outdoor patio, and we want to come back and have an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION show (and workshop) in the bus:

The bus in the patio of THE SKILLET

The view from the patio,

painted by Isaac Sandoval, the owner of THE SKILLET

2023

Karl Whitaker had come up to Las Vegas, New Mexico in September, 2023 -- to make prints at FAT CROW PRESS during the First Friday event, and made the cover of the newspaper:

We had printed before with Julie Sola

in September 2023

AFTERWARDS

Karl showed the tessellation prints in Albuquerque on the following Saturday:

Showing the big color tessellation prints

to Daniel and Ellie at Tin Can Alley

Karl brought the big color tessellation prints

to show Julianna Kirwin in her Albuquerque studio

Karl took one of the prints to the July 30, 2025 drawing session at FUSION in Albuquerque, to show to the drawing group:

July 30, 2025

David Brower's linocut

is in the print

July 30, 2025

Dawn Tello's linocut

is in the print

Then Karl took the print to Open Hack at Quelab that same night:

July 30, 2025

Adric checks out the print at Quelab

We also showed the print

at the Remarque Re-Opening in Albuquerque

• We use the laser cutter at Quelab to cut the individual "hat" linocut tiles, to make the big collaborative print

Fat Crow Press -- LARGE TESSELLATIONS

We pulled COLORFUL EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints in Las Vegas, New Mexico on July 24, 2025 with JULIE SOLA at FAT CROW PRESS:

Our large experimental colorful large

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION PRINT

John Tollett took a video of Julie Sola pulling the big tessellation prints:

Las Vegas Tesselation Project: clip 4

FIRST PRINT

Julie pulled the large print

on her large etching press

Getting an idea of the print

by laying out the tessellation tiles

We inked with the Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Ink

Close up of the first print

SECOND PRINT

We inked several of the tessellation linocuts with two or more colors for the second big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print: