BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!!

Happy New Year from NWPs!

We hope you had a great Christmas and New Year filled with festive cheer!!

We are back and ready to take on 2010! No rest for the printmaking wicked as we have been churning out the books for Lancashire Zine + Artists Book Fair fair next weekend! We hope to see you all there!

Heres a little sneak preview of what we will be bringing to our lovely table. I will be selling original prints in decorative presentation boxes, wax encaustic books, sketchbooks, traveling diaries (edited :) ) and much much more!

Zine Artist Book Fair

We will be having a stall at the Zine fair on the 29th and 30th January just to give you all a heads up come and spend your Christmas money from Santa on some original prints and artist books supporting local artists!

http://www.zinefair.com/

Mini Print Exhibition

We are taking part in the Mini Print Exhibition at Artlink, Hull! Check it out!

Mini Print website to come soon...

Carborundum Demonstration

Thank you to all who attended the Hot Bed Press Open Studios this weekend.
We hope are demonstration on expressive printmaking with Carborundum has inspired you in one way or another!

Four Colour Separations

This week we have been busy people with Thursday at the Bluecoat and Friday at Hot Bed Press.

Whilst Hannah got to grips with the Carborundum ready for our demo at Chapel Street Open Studios next weekend (more on this later) I gave gum arabic four colour separations a whirl. We loved the results and decided to experiment further with this and so the next day with guidance from the master of Gum Arabic Justin Sanders we both produced some amazing prints for our first trial of the process. Sometimes referred to as paper lithography, this method of printmaking uses photocopies saturated with gum arabic. The ink of the photocopy attracts the ink on the roller and can then be printed. Four Colour Seperations involves inking up the CMYK layers of an image separately then overlaying them.

We will be entering these images to the mini print exhibition in York.

Carborundum Print


Gum Arabic Four Colour Separation

Open Skill Swap: Carborundum

From Emma to Hannah to North West Printmakers

On Thursday we offered the first of hopefully many skill swapping sessions to Printmakers in the North West. The free demonstration took place at The Bluecoat Liverpool and gave an insight into Carborundum Printmaking.

We had a great afternoon experimenting with various styles of application and the participants produced some great work even with slight problems with little drying time for the varnish!







Thank you to all those that attended if you would be interested in future workshops please send us your details.

Skill Swap: Wax Encaustic

From Emma to Hannah,


This is not directly a printing technique but print is different process for print to be explored.

Encaustic Painting is using wax (beeswax) and applying it to a surface (wood) fusing it with a heating element(iron)

Using the encaustic as an adhesive a variety of materials inc thin papers such as dress patterns can be drawn/printed onto and then encased onto the surface. Other materials that work well are tissue, maps, bleached paper.



A thank you here is to Laura Deem who introduced Emma to the technique in California, USA