Weekend Edition

Did anyone hear this on Weekend Edition this morning??

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124633067

And she paints!!!

What keeps me up at night

http://www.printeresting.org/

This is what keeps me up at night.

Build your own press

There are a few resources around the internet for building your own relief printing press, should any of you be adventurous nough to try it. Here are a few:

Homemade Cut Press

Instructables.com

Home Made Linoleum Printing Press

Paintings or Prints?

Steve Keene

Steve Keene is a New York based artist who paints in multiples. Instead of painting the image once and then over again, he paints many at the same time. Though it is the same painting, it is unique from all of those produced at the exact same time. Without a doubt they are "multiples," but are they also prints or paintings? Or both? Are they worth the $21 he charges for 5 "medium to small sized" ones? or maybe more, less?

Some More Inspiration

Stewart and Stewart is a publisher of screen prints based in Michigan. Here are some of their editions by Susan Crile.

Also - check out the prints of Randy Bolton, who was one of my professors. You'll understand...

Browse the whole site here.

Funny Money

Here's a link to the Wikipedia article about a peculiarly Canadian cultural icon, The Canadian Tire Money.

Notes on money design

Hey folks,

Since we'll be making some serious money in the next couple of weeks, here are a few links on the topic of money design...

Dig the hand-painted aesthetic of this one...

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5440/money.html

Something Relevant

Here's a bit of inspiration for you,

Link

It's a Flickr group dedicated to the printmakers who sell their prints on Etsy.com

Nonsense

Continuing on from our discussion; I give you the heart-shaped pizza...

Art For Sale!!

For sale locally, barely used!  One Owner!

Unsigned and uneditioned yet "certified original."  Art or commodity?

A New Printmaking

A great little article from the New York Times that touched on some of the discussion topics from last week.

The Art of Alphonse Mucha

Continuing on with that discussion on the "Relax" project, here's a painting by Alphonse Mucha.

The Art of Alphonse Mucha

ambigrams

Two examples of ambigrams (in this case words).  The asymmetrical ambigram reads as a different word depending on the orientation (death / life).  The Angels and Demons one is an example of a symmetrical ambigram (reads the same upside down or right side up).

Here's a link to a really cheesy ambigram generator.  It only works by 676 having unique letterforms, it's not exactly what you'd call a "custom job."

STEAMROLLER PRINTS!

Large Scale Lino

Prints from SFCB

More big prints

The Exquisite Corpse

Jake and Dinos Chapman: Le cadavre exquis etchings.

and a definition

Charley Harper

The Art of Charley Harper

New! Blog!

Here I will post relevant links and images that relate to the class.  Often I have come across things of interest, but short of emailing he entire class with a series of links, I had no way to steer you towards them.  Until now.

Hopefully you will all check this often, read and investigate the posts and even leave comments.  I will also be bringing up in class topics that were introduced here first.  So read early and read often, and don't be afraid to comment.

Monotypes from Tom Bennett

http://darteboard.com/2009/11/12/the-time-machine/

Monotypes from David Armacost

http://naivelittlepiggies.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/and-then-i-fell-in-a-trench/