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This is our new table for screenprinting. It's very ad hoc. We grabbed the saw horses from Kate's studio. The surface is 3/4" MDF with white board adhered on top which is a continuation of the work Jessica had done in developing a low-cost highly-useful table surface. The cost for the MDF and whiteboard surface is about $30.00 at Lowe's. All of our tables are made that way.
We finished our 3 color screenprint for the 'Don't Believe the Type' expo. And it turned out really nice!
If you are in the neighborhood, please drop by the Ship of Fools gallery friday November the 5th, for a view of the real deal.
This is a portrait of English botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children. It combines both a hand-carved lino block portrait in dark silver ink, and a screenprint of the silhouette of fern leaves in cobalt blue ink, mimicking the cyanotypes she was known for. It is printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 11" x 14" (28 cm x 35.6 cm).
Her mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father and received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father's translation of Lamarck's 'Genera of Shells'. This translation was important to the nomenclature of shells, because her illustration allowed readers to properly identify Lamarck's genera. She married John Pelly Atkins in 1825 and devoted herself to botany and collecting specimen, including for Kew Gardens. In 1839, she became a member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles, one of the few scientific organizations open to women. She became interested in algae, after William Henry Harvey published 'A Manual of the British marine Algae in 1841'.
Through her father, she was friends with both William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to modern photographic methods, and Sir John Herschel, who (amongst other things) invented the cyanotype photographic process in 1842. Within a single year of its invention, she self-published the first known book of illustrated with cyanotype photographs and was likely one of the two first women to make a photograph. She recorded her seaweed specimen for posterity by making photograms by placing the unmounted dried-algae original directly on the cyanotype paper. Atkins self-published her photograms in the first installment of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843, and two further volumes in the next decade. She collaborated with Anne Dixon (1799–1864) to produce further books of cyanotypes on ferns and flowering plants and also published other non-scientific or photographic books. In 1865, she donated her collections to the British Museum.
I've shown her based on an early photographic portrait, along with some fern leaves, much how she illustrated her own specimen.
Este primer cuatrimestre del 2011, el profesor Jorge Zachín, titular de cátedra en las materias Tecnología I y II, de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, me invitó a dar una breve charla a los alumnos de Tecno I sobre las posibilidades de la producción de obra gráfica en Serigrafía.
Expuse parte de mi colección de posters, que incluye obras de Dave Hunter, Ron Donovan, Chuck Sperry, Frank Kozik, Zoltron, John Paul Bail, Melanie Cervantes, Lil Tuffy, Jorge Gamboa, Scott Johnson, Doe Eyed Design y Alan Hynes, entre otros. Charlamos sobre los distintos estadíos del proceso de impresión y los varios trucos usados en la producción de los posters, tales como las diferencias entre tintas vinílicas y al agua, la sobreimpresión de tintas traslúcidas, el uso de tintas plateadas y doradas, asi como la variedad de soportes y el efecto que producen.
Mis agradecimientos a los alumnos, a Jorge y a toda la cátedra Zachín por su interés y apoyo!
Apron made from cotton canvas material and a wave patterened japanese tenugui dish cloth. The octopus is hand screen printed in blue speedball ink.
Some Teddy Bears Have All The Luck (4 colour photo silk screen print on Somerset Velvet N/P Grey 280gsm paper), 2011
I decided I won't stream me carving rubylith (this being for a new screenprint!) on my new Ustream process channel because I'm pretty certain it'll be like watching paint dry. But if you speed it up and set it to a kicky tune from Ratatat, it's a lot more interesting!
I think I'll be streaming some process on Thursday at noon Pacific, so check in (or keep an eye on Twitter)-- might even do some request sketching!
If it's not that obvious, I'm having a lot of fun with this new webcam.
Hi everybody!
the new WAX screenprinting release is now avaiable!
These prints are part of a set of two prints, feel free to order them toghether or separately
2 color screen print
230g Fabriano cotton paper
Limited edition of 10
35 x 50 cm
Printed / signed and numbered by the artist
more info at www.martinamerlini.com/WAX-screenprints
or you can write to m_merlini@hotmail.it