Printmaking Techniques

I thought of getting more information, about printmaking. I found valuable information about the description of different printmaking techniques, such as woodcut, linocut, and many more. If you are interested on the topic, feel free to check the following cite.

http://www.worldprintmakers.com/english/pmtechni.htm

[ Victor Villanueva]

Getting late, getting late...

I meant to do my post on Wed...that turned into Thur....and now...Oh, well...better late than never. The reason I was going to write my post on Wednesday was because I spent 14 hours straight working on my print and during my 5th print I messed up too bad to just ignore it; meaning I got no usable print out of my 14 hours of work. Now if I said I wasn't disappointed I would be lying, but I don't really see it as a total loss, although I was bloody tired when I got home, I believe in the end I learned a lot about the printing process. I still enjoy the screen printing process and although at times it can seem like your going nowhere fast I much rather like the journey...I mean let's face it the art I'm making isn't going to drop jaws and I don't really expect it to. I know my limitations and am more interested in learning techniques and processes; great art can always come later. The biggest breakthrough I've had was to finally realize what medium and processes I'd like to use to create my future art. This may not sound like a big deal, but I've spend the last 2 and a half years contemplating what I want to use to create my works. Now that I have finally boiled it down I can now focus on mastering those processes as well as exploring just what I want my art to do and say. This, however, may be a life long exploration; my main goal now is to start this exploration. __--Later, Jason R.--__

PULP

I certainly hope my post is in the correct compartment! The header says WSUPrintmaking so here goes....
I attended the opening of PULP in El Dorado last night and found it enjoyable. There were installations and prints and paintings and drawings and collages and books and lots to take in. I enjoyed the prints the best and of those I found our noble instructor's to be the most sophisticated.
Monika's use of color and her diffuse technique result in such a rich product. The layers of images and spacial composition create works I feel that I could not only touch but enter. The interplay of hard line and soft texture draw me in. Found myself peeking at the back of the prints just to see how much ink penetrated paper.
There were a set of block prints and a set of embossed paper pieces in one corner that I found engaging. Maybe it was the color...a beautiful blue-green, or maybe the subject...sky and horizon. Maybe I'm just a sucker for paper.
One large mixed media piece by a fellow named Oehm reminded me of the work of James Rosenquist with it's pieced sections of various images...portraiture, industrial images, food...something for everyone.
Most of the works presented held personal meaning and nostalgia for the artists. One though, was a "Bead Curtain for Oscar Wilde" made of long green rolled paper beads inter-spaced between cut and folded paper chairs, cherubs, feathers, paper flowers and other things. Charming!
I'd say the silliest piece was a sculpture called "Deconstructed Paper". It consisted of a clear acrylic base with a yard long, vertical clear acrylic tube attached to it. Inside the tube was dry, powdery white paper "pulp". Oh well.
Margaret

Latte+Art=AWESOME

Okay, we all like latte's, and we all like art, or SHOULD! I was looking at some videos, and this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! If ya want to see something awesome click the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsPd37HZ0Ok

Impact

Emily and Brooke said interesting things about the big art lecture this week. Brooke's comments about Kerry Williams remarks about art from the past influencing us as artists, like or it or not, resonates with something Annette LeZotte talked about yesterday during Sophomore review. Someone asked her why graphic designers and studio artists have to take so much art history at WSU. Her major point was that you have to understand art history so that you don't misuse it. She mentioned that you could end up using the wrong image in a graphic design project that could alienate or offend the customer or the public. The same could be said about any images that a studio artist creates. I also think that knowing about other cultures' art history is helpful too, but not just to artists. It helps the public understand and consider new or different kinds of art. Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary painting with a black primitive women, partly covered in elephant dung shocked and angered the New York public when it was exhibited there in the 1990s, but if people had understood that in Nigeria (Ofili's family came to England from there) elephant dung is sacred and used in everything important, perhaps their religious feelings would have been enhanced and re-evoked. Of course, Ofili was banking on causing controversy, but he had to know history to manipulate the audience he wanted to shock. Because of art history, one can argue that James Maplethorpe's nude male photographs are just a form of humanism instead of porn. Anyway, it's amusing that old, dusty ideas from the past are capable of generating lots of "buzz" when they are resurrected in a new way. ann

Artist talk and art. Emily Ritter

Kerry James Marshall's talk was a breath of fresh air, and quite educational. I enjoyed it very much, and enjoyed his work as well. I also liked the fact that his pieces were so big. It shows the impact of size and how it really can change the meaning of the piece.

Now for some interesting pieces and artists like I like and found on stumbleupon. I am a big believer in seeing what is out there and being exposed to it to get inspiration, or just to be aware. Hence me posting other artist's work constantly.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5RzTnX/cityofskies.com/2009/10/13/invisible-people/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6LY2UR/www.anaduncan.com/

Speaker

While listening yestreday to Kerry's speech, he said something that made me think. When I sit in Art History class, I tend to get so annoyed as the teacher is making up (what it seems to me since we have no definate documentation) of why these people from so long ago did art the way they did. I always think, what if this wasnt intended to be art? Maybe this is just an amature artist's peice, and your relying on this peice of work to describe a whole era? etc. But no matter what the peice of art were studying/looking at, Kerry's comment had an impact. He said something along the lines that everyone who has decided to be an artist, has decided so due to art they have previoulsy looked at, and the artist of the art that inspired them, were inspired but older art, and so on. So it made me think how the anciet pots and ugly art to me, really has had an impact one me and everyone else.

Brooke Gluszek