OFFCENTER ARTS Print Workshop

OFFCENTER ARTS in Albuquerque offers a free PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP, from 5:30 - 7:30 on Wednesdays:

OFFCENTER ARTS

in Albuquerque

Krrrl (your blogger) went there on September 10th, 2025 to carve his EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linoleum tile:

Krrrl brought his own carving tools --

Edward C Lyons Linoleum Tool Set

The Press

Inking with Water Soluble Block Ink

The linocut (left)

next to the print (right)

The print on newsprint

Print masterpieces

PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES:

The different printing techniques

at OFFCENTER ARTS

The printmaking studio is EXTREMELY WELL ORGANIZED:

The carving knives

are very orderly

Likewise the silk screening squeegees

are very orderly

The RULES

SILKSCREENING:

They burn silk screens

with a halogen light

The Speedball silk screening emulsion,

and Speedball emulsion remover

There was a second room, for printmakers to carve in:

The second room

The second room

Inking someone's Speedy Carve block

The block and the print

The prints look good together

Roadrunner with ink

Zimmy accepted an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION tile to carve:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut

above the Pink Pearl eraser squirrel print

Zimmy started drawing on tracing paper

for her EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut

Zimmy's EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

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PREVIOUS

There is a lot of talent at OFFCENTER ARTS, as we have seen from their Printmakers previously:

2023

The Print Vendors -- PRINTERS PLANET,

 August 13, 2023

OFFCENTER ARTS 

participated in THE PRINTERS PLANET 2023

pop-up print market in Santa Fe

2024

THE PRINTMAKERS -- BIG INK in Albuquerque

Mika Maloney, September Benson, Dre Rivera

of OFFCENTER

in front of their BIG INK print

THE PRINTMAKERS -- BIG INK in Albuquerque

Zimmy and Drea of OFFCENTER ARTS,

in front of their BIG INK print in 2024

SUMMARY -- The PRINTERS PLANET

 in Albuquerque, May 2024

OFFCENTER ARTS

May 2024

SUMMARY -- The PRINTERS PLANET

 in Albuquerque, May 2024

OFFCENTER ARTS

exhibited their BIG INK print

in May 2024

SUMMARY -- The PRINTERS PLANET

 in Albuquerque, May 2024

BIG INK print detail

Vendors in the MAIN PACK --

 PRINTERS PLANET 2024

OFFCENTER ARTS 

participated in THE PRINTERS PLANET 2024

pop-up print market in Santa Fe

2025

APRIL 2025 -- Exhibitions

I bought this print from Zimmy

during the Albuquerque ARTWALK on April 2025