visiting artist - Freda Fairchild - Oct 14

mark your calendar, print club members! Freda Fairchild will be visiting the print studio @ 5pm on October 14th. her studio is in Paducah, KY, and you can visit her website to see more of her gorgeous work.

while you're browsing websites, also check out her studio mate's work: Cricket Alexander.

recap, workshop in 2003

here you can see some of the various images taken during the collograph workshop in 2003, along with several of the finished prints. this should help you get excited about working on your plates before we all meet up to mix up some ink!

Collaborative Collographs (a note from Andrea)

Instructions for our collaborative collograph day, from Andrea:

1. Tear a 22 x 20 sheet of print paper the weight of BFK into 4 pieces = 11 x 15 (I have it in my office for $2.10 a sheet).
I also have the paper for printing.

2. Coat both sides with gesso or acrylic paint (house paint will work) and add textures no higher than 1/8. " Use Cut paper, textured paper, drawing with glue or acrylic medium etc.) Do control your urge to put thick objects on the plate because they cause miserable printing problems.

3. After you put your textures on, coat the plate with white acrylic paint, gesso or a combination of the two so that the plate is completely white.

4. Coat all surfaces back and front and sides with gloss acrylic medium, or spray the plate with spray shellac or white spray paint. (The plate needs to coated to withstand a lot of rubbings with ink and also be impervious to cleaning with mineral spirits.)

The plate need to be white so you can see the color ink on it and know how to wipe it. The most successful plates are very flat with no high edges to catch ink that will blob out under the weight of the press.

5. You can also score the plate with an X-acto knife for lines.

6. After we are finished, you can take home the pieces and finish them with collage, drawing, sewing...... whatever it takes.

We should start at 9:00 am and go to whenever you have had enough. Just as long as you don't leave me with a mess!

collage workshop @ nku, june 08

Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 2008

9 am - 4 pm


Northern Kentucky University
Fine Arts Building, Room 101 (Printmaking Room)

$40.00 per each workshop


Sponsored by the Northern Kentucky University
Printmaking Department


Randel Plowman will be conducting two, one-day workshops at
Northern Kentucky University on June 28th and 29th from 9 am - 4 pm.

These workshops will explore the full potential of collage and its
limitless possibilities in materials, themes, compositions, and expression.

Most supplies will be included in the workshop. Participates are
encouraged to bring an assortment of personal images to use in their
work. A more detailed list will be provided before the workshop.

Randel Plowman is a mixed-media artist living and working in Northern
Kentucky. His work is included in many public and private collections
in the United States and Europe.

His blog, A Collage A Day, has been featured in The New York Times, USA
Today, How Magazine, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Lexington Herald
Leader and other publications.



For more information please contact:

Randel Plowman at
studio@rplowman.com

Andrea Knarr
knarr@nku.edu

Lisa Jameson at
jamesonl@nku.edu

Kathleen's Book

Kathleen (Piecefield) created this book in the workshop led by Jennifer D. Anderson @ NKU this past Saturday.

Artists who attended the workshop made books of roughly the same dimensions, using various papers and embellishments on their books. When closed, most of our books measured approximately 9.5 x 13 x 1 inches.

Kathleen writes: "I finished the book with a little toggle made from a sliver of driftwood, and added a braided linen tie to wrap around it, which shows up in the detail shot. I am really loving the weight and flexibility of this book-- how good it feels in the hand! I like the smell of the new paper, and it even makes a pleasing sound....so it is engaging all the senses!"

This image is a detail of Kathleen's book--the toggle closure she mentioned in her comments. I think it's pretty sexy, and it is characteristic of her work, with a natural inclusion, and a certain elegance.

I would love to see this and other books in person. I hope we can all get together sometime in the near(ish) future to pass our books around and see what everyone has done with theirs. Posting them here, of course, is the next best thing!

Note: If you attended the workshop, and you would like to have us post your work here in the Edition Varies blog, please feel free to send the photo and any writing/description/comments you have about your work to Nicci.

Bookbinding Workshop at NKU

Photographs taken at the Bookbinding Workshop taught by Jennifer Anderson at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday, September 8, 2007

artist book - star - a peek inside

artist book - star - a peek inside
Originally uploaded by anongrrl

wasn't our workshop with jennifer cool? i had a lot of fun, even if i was pretty slap happy from lack of sleep. sometimes it just makes glue mishaps that much more amusing, right?

right.

anywho, i haven't finished my big orange sketchbook-thing get, but today i made a smaller book, which measures about 7.5 x 4.75 x 1 inch, with the same technique. you can poke around the guts, so to speak, if you click on over to my flickr set on this book, or go see what it looks like closed.

you can also see a little sneak peek at the spine of the orange book. gasp! it's finished, i swear! once it's embellished, i'll post it here.

i was concentrating so hard on keeping glue out of my hair, that i really didn't take a lot of workshop progress photos. i know randel did, so i leave it to him to post some here!