Monday, August 19, 2024

Vendors by the RAILS -- PRINTERS PLANET 2024

PART 1
Vendors by the RAILS

These are the vendors that set up next to the railroad tracks.  For "Vendors of the MAIN PACK"  PART 2 -- CLICK HERE.

VENDORS -- at the PRINTERS PLANET 2024 in Santa Fe



Vendors next to the railroad tracks


Setting up before 10 AM


VENDORS by the RAILS

Axle Contemporary mobile art space
with the "Art and Activism" exhibition


PRINTERS PLANET
Headquarters
The PRINTERS PLANET headquarters


Tim Jag
who organizes the PRINTERS PLANET festivals


James Bourland (right)
of Bourland Letterpress


Sarah Hart of Taos


Carl Crossgrove of Crossgrove Studio


Noel Sandino of Las Cruces, New Mexico
associated with Black Bird Studio 


Chauncey Foster
Santa Fe


Aaron Freeland of Las Cruces, New Mexico


DARLING VANITY
Darling Vanity
leatherwork, beads, painting


 Vendors in the Main Pack -- PART 2


Previous PRINTERS PLANET Vendors:




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PRINTERS PLANET 2024 -- Potluck Mixer

There was a Potluck Mixer at Bourland Letterpress Studios on August 10, 2024, the day before the vendor market:


Toasting Oaxaca style, with fine mezcal 
(imported by Juanitos of El Paso)


Bourland Letterpress Studios


Bourland Letterpress printing on an antique machine


James Bourland showing off the posters he printed
for this year's and last year's PRINTERS PLANET


PRINTED MATTER of 2016 in Taos




The letterpress "bed" or "chase"


James Bourland Abraham Lincoln print


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Sunday, August 4, 2024

Printing Individual "Hat" Tiles

We printed individual "hat" linocuts  on 8x8 inch paper --  one for a scrapbook, one to frame and show, and one for the artist:

Barbara Endicott's individual "hat" print
in an 8x8 inch photo album scrapbook


Twelve framed 8x8 inch prints
make a good pop-up exhibition


We printed in Ellie's studio on Friday, August 2, 2024:


The printmaking set-up
in Ellie's studio

MATERIALS

Materials:


Ellie printing on the Sizzix Big Shot Plus


Ellie's ingenious drying rack


SIZZIX BIG SHOT PLUS embossing press


We used four "inserts" to sandwich the linocut and print:
  • the heavy bottom support
  • the see-through acrylic sheet
    • the linoleum plate next
  • a piece of paper
  • a thin plastic sheet at the top

The four "inserts"
sandwiching the linocut


Perhaps the big innovation was using a harder brayer -- the 4 inch 60 durometer brayer from TAKACH PRESS.  Manuel Guerra really liked inking with this brayer in El Paso:

The 4 inch 60 durometer brayer from TAKACH PRESS
protected in a box for carrying around


You hold the Takach brayer
like a dagger

The key is to orient the "hat" tile in the correct way, so that it looks good printed on the paper:

Inked "hat" tile 
oriented on the plate


Barbara Endicott's print,
in the correct orientation


Virgil Velasco's print


Bobby Orr's tile


Dawn Tello's tile


Dawn Tello's print


Henry Morales' tile


Karl Whitaker's print


Martin Terry's tile


Martin Terry's print


Jeanette Cook's print




AI image laser cut on a linoleum disc,
and printed


When we do multi-colored prints we might need registration tabs -- however we probably won't do this to make large tessellation prints:

Registration pins from Ternes Burton



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