Call for Entries - Mini Print 2009
Artlink are calling for entries for its popular annual Mini Print Exhibition. This is a great selling opportunity for artists as Mini Print is held in the run up to Christmas.
This is an open submissions exhibition with no selection process, so everyone who enters gets their work displayed. Artists are invited to submit work in any printed medium, please see submission guidelines for exact criteria on what we can and cannot accept.
As this is a mini print exhibition, the total size of the work must not be bigger than 25cm in either direction - to allow us to mount work to fit within our frames.
Required with all entries is a fee of £20.00 per artist to cover mounting/framing and return postage of unsold work.
A maximum of five prints can be entered per participant, two of which will be mounted, framed and displayed on the Gallery wall. The remaining prints will still be for sale and available for viewing in the gallery browser and also for replacing work sold from the wall.
The closing date for entries is Thursday 12th November 2009
and Mini Print 2009 will run from early December 2009 until end of January 2010.
Submission guidelines and form are available using the links below.
www.artlinkuk
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Miniprint Cadaques submissions open till March 2010
I have to say I preferred more of the prints that were in the "finalists section" than the actual "winners section".
Here's a link to the site where forms for entry can be downloaded
Printmaking is alive and kicking! (latest info. from Carol and Robert)
Experience printmaking’s latest moves, and discover how they relate closely to classical, traditional and contemporary techniques. Printmaking originated around A.D 105 and has been evolving ever since. The systems that Carol and Robert will demonstrate at the workshops are part of this evolution. If you are curious to know more, come along to the workshops and find out:
• How you can now draw with a pencil or crayon directly on an etching plate to generate an etched line
• How to realise your concepts through printmaking
• How classical theory is the foundation of acrylic resist etching
• What you can do when you screenprint with fantastic artists painting materials like gouache, watercolour, organic pigment pastes, acrylics, pigments, oroton, varnishes, retarders and thickeners
• How to make a painting or drawing that can be printed ??
• How using these new methods enables us to etch plates very deeply etched or even right through like the zinc plate illustrated below
• About photocollagraphs and combined intaglio methods
• Ways of working creatively and safely
• The reasons that these systems work well in combination with digital positives
• What exactly is exciting about change and what opportunities does it create
• How to make many different images and editions from one plate
(the print below is an example of this working method)
In the workshops and in the time, between the sessions, you can also try using the materials and systems to:
• Make collagraph prints that look like aquatints, open-bite and hard and soft ground etchings.
• Create autographic positives with the tusches that were inspired by the cliché verres of Corot and Millet, soft ground collage effects, the sugar lift’s of Picasso, Chagall, and Rouault etchings, the etchings of William Blake, monotyping marks, painted marks, and the reticulated washes of stone and zinc lithography.
Carol holding Kate Downie’s screen print The Quarry Path (below)
which was created by painting and drawing with tusches and printed with the Chinese ink, pastels and Indian inks that Kate draws and paints with.
• Making aquatints which are like spirit, powder or spray aquatints as in Downies etching Wych Elm below.
These are just some of the creative possibilities that you can explore in these workshops, there are many more and the sessions will include time to ask questions and discuss experiences and ideas.
Further refs
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Monoprints using Gelatin - you don't need access to a press.
Just came across this print by Linda Germain the gelatin queen see previous post on this site plus another on my own blog. She is doing a series of these using the gelatin mono printmaking process. Waterbased inks are used in this process.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Monoprinting workshop with Kate Downie
Here are a few photographs from the final part of the day spent furiously making monoprints onto Hosho paper. Photos by Steve Ramtomski.
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