Mixed Media Printmaking Blog

Small Works Exhibit @ Georgetown Public Library

I will be exhibiting several small pieces at the Georgetown Public library for the month of April with the Mixed Media Collective. I will also be giving a free demonstration of gelatin printmaking on Saturday April 10th from 11 AM to noon. The details here.

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Foam Plate Prints

2010, foam plate printmaking / Linda Germain / March 24, 2010

I have been playing with square styrofoam plate prints this week. I was inspired by another artist Bonnie Mineo A couple of my friends took a workshop with her at Fort Point Studios.

They had a great time and enjoyed the technique. I have not had a chance to see their work, so I have been guess at how she layers the plates. I made about 20 plates with simple marks and then used speedball inks and just started layering.

Last night I found that I liked how a light color over a darker color looked. I am having so much fun that I can’t stop. I am just using styrofoam meat trays and cutting them into 4″ squares. I am using pastel colors and colors that I would not usually use.

Try! You’ll like it! Enjoy!

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Art and Anger Response

2010, Gelatin plate print / Linda Germain / March 20, 2010

So as I was working at the farm the other day, walking backwards, I noticed my heavy footprints and thought that those footprints all over my art might be the answer to anger and art. So I walked all over a book that I have been making. I am not sure where this will take me but I am along for the journey.

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Going to Haystack Mtn School

2010, book arts, haystack / Linda Germain / March 20, 2010

Yeah!! I got a scholarship to go to Haystack Mtn School of Crafts on Deer Isle Maine. I am taking a workshop called The Transparent Book: Working with Layering, Transparencies, and Overlays taught by Sas Colby I am so excited and grateful and lucky. Yippie.

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Anger and Art …. Hmmm?

2010, Uncategorized / Linda Germain / March 17, 2010

So anger has been my main emotion these days. I was hoping to push through it, hoping that it would go away. IT IS NOT. So maybe I will make some angry art and see what happens. So I googled anger and art and found a couple of interesting thing, one a list of art activities and two a list of 10 things that anger steals from you. Off to give it a try.

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