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Let the games begin!
The “games” include a protracted conditioning procedure for a really expensive leather-covered rolling pin which will be used to apply burnt cow bones and linseed oil to a dampened slab of limestone hewn from a Bavarian quarry which has been treated with the sap of an African tree to preserve and reproduce a drawing of a line from a Wutang song. (Or something like that...)
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Photos from my BFA exhibition at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, April 2015
This is one of my printmakers! She made silkscreen and relief prints on mylar and/or washi, using old photos as well as drawings and notes from her childhood. Then she mounted these things inside vintage wooden fruit & produce crates, and backlit them with LEDs. Super cool.
The studio couch sees a lot of action this time of year.
Student Evaluations
Oh Canada! Walter Jule's talk yesterday morning was the highlight of the conference. No snarky remarks from Printmakingporn, here. Just respect. Peeeeeeace.
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What happens at Southern Graphics stays at Southern Graphics. I just wish I packed my mutton tallow.
I left the kids some new treats before I left for Knoxville... "All I can see is a giant red sun in the shape of a chicken!"
The final prints for a commission for Shutterstock and Pi Day.
Multiple color lithographs with screen print
10ish x 15ish (made for web presentation)
www.aaroncolemanprintmaking.com
Here is a link to the final Shutterstock blog posts
http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/bright-minds-stained-glass-tributes-to-tesla-turing-and-more
And here is a link to the “in progress” post
http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/inside-the-lithography-studio-with-artist-and-printmaker-aaron-coleman
This post should be getting more likes. I assume the Tumblr peeps are all en route to Knoxville. In any event, this shit is some grade A printmaking porn.
To Knoxville, with love.
It's the little things, really.
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Punch-Out!
Here is a 6-colour photopolymer plate letterpress demo print I just completed on the C&P. The image is originally a screen grab from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!, ca. 1987. This is not an internet image, BTW, but a grab taken after I beat Piston Honda on my NES emulator. But I digress.
I manually separated it into 5 spot plates, where plate 4 was printed whole, then chopped up and printed a second time in a different colour. The order was: blue, yellow, pink, cream, grey (the sidewalk section of the cream plate), and black. I learned a lot about these plates, mixing oil and rubber-based inks, as well as just how tight registration can get on a 100 year old cast iron beast.
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On a related note, several of my more curious students have been watching me print this thing over the last number of days. They are amused with the image, but moreso, they seem quite interested in the level of work and investment I have in testing out these plates. It's just for a demo, after all. Well... I have a real problem with professors who believe that you can "teach anything to anyone so long as you're one step ahead of the students" and give advice like "students never know that you just learned how to do x in your garage over the weekend". The truth is, students know. There is a whole world of expertise out there on Youtube, so if you try to bullshit them, they know. And you look like a dillhole.
Holy F (well...KF-95 photopolymer letterpress plates)!
I've been experimenting with photopolymer plates for our new(ish) old C&P, before I roll them out for widespread use in the studio. This little sweetheart is ~2.5"x3", and originally from a logo I made in Illustrator back in grad school. I started with an inkjet negative printed from an Epson 3800 in matte black ink 2880 dpi, on Silkjet film. I shot the plate @ 300 light units (5000w setting) on the Olec 5k lamp.
This is a point-light source, btw. No "diffuse" bulbs, no Kreene, no problem.
Developed by hand for 6 minutes in warm water using a small baby hairbrush with a built-in rattle in the handle. Hairdryer'ed on high for 5 minutes, post-exposed @ 300 LU. The C&P was made-ready with hard packing, and the impressions were taken on Academia (uncoated) paper using VanSon rubber-based ink (reflex blue + pepper red +opaque white). The 0.5 pt. lines held! The 1pt. lines next to more 1pt. lines with 1pt. spaces held!
Booyah.
Tears of a Typesetter
I have a student who absolutely loves Letterpress. We talk lead type and photopolymer plates at school, and I send her links to videos and readings and even places to buy Letterpress stuff (NA Graphics, Boxcar, M&H Foundry, etc.) at night. Each time I see her next, she breathes deeply, and then relays her feelings in a near-religious-experience kinda way. Recently, she described hearing the words "Tears of a Typesetter" in her head, over and over. Tears of joy, tears of hope, tears of frustration, tears of the overwhelmingness of it all...
Letterpress gets into the bloodstream.
(In the figurative sense, preferably.)
My OLEC AL-53 with L1261 bulb and Magic 83 Integrator exposes all the emulsions.
ALL THE EMULSIONS.
Think Big & Kick Ass
I made this new book sewing frame with scraps from the U of R's woodshop, plus $9 in shiny metal bits from Home Depot. I am forever indebted to Donald Trump for giving me the push I needed to really go for it.
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"Some black graphics on edges missing"
I don't need any new stones for the studio, but the $10 shipping to Canada has me tempted.
Look what the baby Jesus brought the U of R Print studio this Xmas -->>> @@@@@@@@@@@!!!!!!!
