A Sweet Idea (with a tip of the hat to Printeresting.org)
The World Printmakers Group of Printmaking Websites on a Prezi presentation.
This new World Printmakers’ flyer is the cover shot of a mini-presentation done in a program we’ve just discovered (www.prezi.com). We suggest you print up WP_Group_6 and post it on your bulletin board.
We got the idea here from Printeresting.org. The good news is that you can use it, too.
Don’t wait. Start now!
Print Workshop Central Now Offers Both Half-Price and Free Options
New Plan Permits All Print Studios Around the World to Participate in Print Workshop Central
The Spanish say, “A grandes males, grandes remedios…” (“For great problems, great solutions…”) So, in the face of the greatest worldwide economic crisis we have ever seen, we’ve decided to cut the price for a Standard Participation in Print Workshop Central by more than half, from 125 to 60 euros annually. We have also created a new free option. Now any print studio in the world can sign up for a Basic Participation at no cost. We’re hoping that these measures will encourage more printmaking workshops to participate, both in Basic and Standard modes. Ten years of online fine-art-print advocacy have taught us that a single Internet presence is not enough. The more–and more qualified–places you appear on the World Wide Web, the better for your print studio’s business. So start incrementing your presence now by joining Print Workshop Central. It has never been so easy.
Andy MacDougall’s Secret New Venues for Selling Prints
What Do You Love? Rock ‘n Roll, Cars, Football, Flowers, Computers?
Why Not Market Your Images at Their Respective Trade Fairs?
A couple of weeks ago our friend, Andy MacDougall, the master screen printer based in Royston, BC off the west coast of Canada, (You may know him as the Mayor of www.squeegeeville.com. ) wrote this comment on one of the discussion threads on the Cut the Gallery Out of the Picture website. I found his remarks fascinating, as they seemed to point the way to new venues for printmakers to market their art. Andy says: Read the rest of this entry »
World Printmakers Launches “Print Universe,” a New Social Network and Resource Site for Print People Everywhere
“Where printmakers worldwide can get their heads together…”
Print Universe, the new social network for fine-art print people, has joined the family of World Printmakers sites and resources for the fine-art-print community. Print Universe, online in beta version since the first of August, offers fine-art-print people display areas for images and videos, forums for opinions and discussion, a very complete tool for announcing events, another for inviting new members, and a blog for every member, among other features.
Since the new network has had an enthusiastic reception among the beta users, who are maintaining high levels of participation, we have decided to present Print Universe in society.
We would like to invite all members and readers of Print Workshop Central to have a look at this new network, to become members (just click on “Join Up” at the upper right of the main page), and to invite their printmaker and print lover friends to join, too. We think you’ll find it interesting, rewarding and fun. It’s also free.
Impetuous Young Printmaker Wonders Where to Go with Paris?
This is a Plea for a Press
Mark Andrew Webber is the industrious young British printmaker who recently created a short animated video made up of nearly 300 linocuts. He has also linocut his way through maps of four of his favorite cities. His last one, Paris, is so ambitious (image size: 150×180 cm.) that he can’t find a press big enough to print it on. This note is a plea to the Print Workshop Central experts for information leading to a press large enough to do the job. I’d like to help this young man if we can. He’s creative and hard working enough to deserve it, I think.
You can see more photographs of the almost-finished Paris linocut on this Flickr display: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandrewwebber/
Or Webber’s interview on World Printmakers: http://www.worldprintmakers.com/english/linomation.htm
Or his own website: http://www.markandrewwebber.com/
Why didn’t Webber think beforehand about the press required to print his giant linocut? Didn’t you ever build a boat too big to get out of the garage?
Dalí at Sea – Our Old Friend Salvador is Back, with Friends
“The surreal case of Dali’s art and the squandered legacy” from today’s Independent.
What ever happened to “caveat emptor?”
“Who will say that Hockney’s (digital) prints are not ‘original’ prints?” Not us, certainly.
Print Workshop Central received another interesting comment from Julia Matcham recently and I think it’s important enough to bring out to the first page and address it. Here’s Julia’s comment:
“I just thought I would draw people’s attention to the fact that David Hockney has just had an exhibition in London of inkjet prints entirely drawn into the computer using a graphics pad (as I do these days). As he says in the introduction to his catalogue (Annely Juda Gallery) ‘the computer is just a tool’. It is as good as you are.
“Autumn Leaves” by David Hockney
Who will say that Hockney’s prints are not ‘original prints’? I think the hand-print brigade are on a sticky wicket here! Not that I don’t appreciate that there are differences; just that definitions other than ‘ this print does not exist in any other form’ are out-of-date.”
Art Reproducers Bite Back
British printmaker, Julia Matcham, sent us this link the other day and it gave me a shiver. Though it’s old news–it dates from 1984–it could very well be a portent of things to come. The article in question, written by London arts lawyer and activist, Henry Lydiate, tells the story of what happened in Windsor, Ontario, when an art-reproductions tempest in a municipal-museum teapot got out of hand.
Here’s the link to the story: http://www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw/contracts/caveat-emptor.htm.
A Surprise Visitor from London’s Art Workers Guild
The phone rang the other morning and it was Monica Grose-Hodge from the Art Workers Guild in London. She wasn’t in London, though; she was here in Granada doing three days of interviews with local artists and craftspeople. She found me through my Granada Studio Visits display at her hotel, and wanted to know if she could come out for a visit and an interview. Yes, of course. Read the rest of this entry »
“Life’s Too Short for Nuance” – New Etcher’s Book with Nice Bite
When was the last time we had the satisfaction of discovering an authentic new voice? This is one of them. And it comes accompanied by a withering eye and a brilliant hand. Life’s Too Short for Nuance, Louis Netter’s new book of satirical drawings, surprises and delights us with a combination of bluntly honest comment and ruggedly refined acid-etched illustrations. I use the term “acid etched” advisedly, as Netter’s images are not only figuratively corrosive, they’re actually acid etchings.
After decades of seeing innocent Americans being cynically manipulated, dumbed down, and distracted by politicians, preachers, the military-industrial complex and the mass media on behalf of the same old vested interests, it’s refreshing to come across a young man with a clean, uncomplicated vision, the talent to express it and, most importantly, the courage to publish it. Read the rest of this entry »
