#gampi

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The Mouth of Khrisna #60908. Pigmentos, papel gampi, pan de oro. Albarrán Cabrera, 2022

Each copy of this print is taking me about an hour to transfer since I’m doing it by hand with varying tools and pressures- all change in ink color/value are due to whatever tool I used in each spot. My go-to tools right now, in order from lightest to darkest transfer, are a speedball print baron, a wooden print baron, a wooden spoon, and a bone folder. My bone folder specifically is my precious little baby that probably has way too much sentimental value already attributed to it.

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Today is the last day of the West Coast Print Fair (link in bio). • • Here we are featuring a selection of Cathie Crawford’s color woodcuts. These poetic, sensuous prints are marked by bright colors in strong, horizontal bands. Crawford’s imagery hovers on the edges of abstraction with associations of landscape, water and other suggestions of the natural world. The prints exude a strong materiality: evidence of her images’ origins in wood is visible in the grain of the matrix transferred in ink to the paper, and in her choice of sumptuous, handmade Japanese papers. In contrast to the delicacy of the paper, Crawford often uses a heavy ink application which imparts textures and glossy surfaces to the finished prints. Cathie Crawford is an American artist based in Peoria, IL. #mannekenpress #woodcut #cathiecrawford #westcoastprintfair #collectprints #gampi #kozo #colorreductionwoodcut #printcollector #artcollector #artconsultant #artista #peoria #limitededition #abstraction #landscape (at Manneken Press LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKHpGrlfPl/?igshid=1um243mkn937i

Hunter saw an exhibit on papermaking and printing during a visit to the London Science Museum in 1911, and he was inspired. At the time, there were no producers of handmade paper in the United States, and Hunter decided there should be. Within two years he had a paper mill of his own, powered by a water wheel. In the following decades he travelled the world, researching papermaking, and writing over twenty books about his studies.  A fuller biography is available from the Dard Hunter Studios.

I’d still pick #gampi over #kitakata . . . This is the other half of the plate in the previous video. Each plate is 21x17 inches. I probably could etch the whole thing as one piece, but preferred to save myself from trouble and have more control by dealing with smaller plates. The plan is to seam them together, back it with #kozo , and present it as one piece. . #etching #fineartprints #linedrawing #narrativeart #storytelling (at Kala Art Institute) https://www.instagram.com/p/BltKBAXBXah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3j9p74596uzw