Posts tagged: printmaking
The 2009 Winter Group Show
By 3rd Ward Brooklyn
3rd Ward is on the search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper! Our last Group Show open call culminated in an opening reception for The Best Emerging Photographers which drew over 300 art revelers. Now we're at it again and even more people will win!
The 2009 Winter Group Show
A search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper.
http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent/
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Classic Craft: SunPrints.
By ChrisjobWith just a bit of cyanotype paper, wonderful, natural modern prints are just a walk-through-the-park away. The Light Garden offers their experience with this fun old-school craft here, here's a bit of the science behind the process, and a link to the supplies.
Open Call For Art!
By 3rd Ward Brooklyn3rd Ward Fall Solo Show: An Open Call to Find One Extraordinary Artist.
This nation-wide open call for ambitious, distinct and provocative work is open to artists working in all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, motion graphics, illustration, installation, industrial design, graphic design, film, video and more. For this call Gawker Artists has come on as a sponsor and this year's Judging Panel includes Clay Rockefeller, co » READ MORE
Print Your Own T-Shirts Using Homemade Stencils
By Chrisjob
Though screen printing is the most efficient way of printing on textiles (check out my how-to here), it’s a lot of work to print a one-of-a-kind t-shirt. Here’s a cool way to create a stencil on the computer, and handprint it upon your shirt. It produces a different aesthetic than silk screening, as your completed shirt won’t look brand new, but nicely broken-in.
Ingredients:
Computer with image editing software (the instructions here are » READ MORE
Two Options for Easy Image Transfers
By Chrisjob
Sometimes, hand painted just isn't the look you're going for, and you long to add some machine printed accuracy to your latest project. Here's two easy ways to add printed images to canvas, plastic, glass, paper, and whatnot.
Materials:
Image from a magazine or book, or printed via laser printer or photocopier. (Inkjet printers will not work)
Warm water
Large bowl or pie plate
Credit card or bone folder (Credit card not pictured...forgive me.)
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Embrace Photo Silkscreen Printing for under $75!
By ChrisjobI have no formal training in the visual arts, but I’ve been determined to learn to do photo silkscreen prints since I learned about the process in high school. Unfortunately, a lot of the ‘how-to’ literature scares one to thinking one needs a vacuum-press table, a complex exposure system inside a formal dark room, enormous wash basins, and pro-grade halftone filters, etc, etc, etc…
As it turns out, one does not. Using a pre-made and readil » READ MORE
MN Artist: Amy Rice
By brunoArt Moco has a cool interview with Minnesota artist Amy Rice
Excerpt:
What is your favorite part of the creative process and why?
When I have had an idea for a painting or a series floating around in my head for awhile that is somewhat vague and then BOOM I totally know how I will do it and then there is an almost immediate BANG, BOOM, BANG and I have to grab a pen and start writing it down/sketching it out and it’s so clear. From then on it’s all » READ MORE
