relief prints

Prints off to the the Littlest Print Exchange

2010, relief prints / /
©linda germain 2011
on the cutting table
So I am participating in the Littlest Print Exchange, and I sent out may package of prints yesterday.  The deadline was the 15th.  Why wait ’til the last minute?  I don’t know.  The theme this year is accessibility.  How it works is I sent in 51 prints 3″ x 3″ and I get back a full set of 50 prints, one from everyone in the exchange.  This is my first time participating.  I am excited to see what I get back.  I am thinking of trying to find a local venue to exhibit the portfolio.
  

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Simple relief prints, rust prints and more

2010, relief prints, rust prints / /
Untitled 2011
screen print on rusted paper
© linda germain 2011

I have been playing with foam relief prints in preparation for some kids classes and experimenting with rusting fabric just because I love it.  Today I was playing with a blocking fluid screen print.  With so many experiments it is hard, no impossible to see the top of any of my work tables.

what I have been up to board
24″ x 36″
© linda germain 2011
I really like to play with out having to end up with a product.  Is that strange?  Sometimes I think so and then get into a rut about having to have great finished work.
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Printmaking, Drawing and Walking

2010, mixed media printmaking, relief prints / /

This is a soft block print of Rye on the Rocks, our family cottage at Rye Beach. I have wanted to do a series about the cottage, my grandmother, the weather, the emotions and mistique of the tiny place. Today I used a speedy cut block and it was very easy to carve with inexpensive carving tools. That is very satisfying.
On another note, the state of our country is getting me down and I usually live a very “protected” live – something is changing. I feel relationship to the chaos and crisis that they talk about in the news. Movement that is what I am using to get me through the day. I started with a walk this morning and in the studio I am moving from piece to piece, moving on, moving through just moving. My walk took me past the Spatial Relations exhibit @ the ArtSpace @ Bentley Library. It looks great.
I have several drawings of Kip going and I am just making the marks, letting things flow, letting stuff out. I came across a book by Fred Babb last week. “go to your studio and make stuff” that speaks to me. I like the open endedness about is. It is freeing. It feels good. But I get to my studio and I start to impose restrictions and expectations on the stuff I make. That is no fun and stops the flow of anything good.

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Prints, Puppies and Discovery

2010, Haverhill, mixed media printmaking, relief prints / /

It was a fine day on the farm today. I worked on cleaning perenials for the winter. This drawing of Kip has been evolving over the last few weeks. It is fun to work on it as the moment moves – or as she moves. I do like these colors. I played with the idea of self-portraits and simple printing plates. I did a very quick sketch. I cropped the image to fit on to the plate, and then transferred the image to a styrofoam plate. I think this will be a great process from the class that I will be teaching at the Newburyport Art Association this winter. It is fast, flexible and satisfying. For this process less is more and gesture drawing work wonderfully. You can experiment with colored papers, multiple ink colors, masking certain areas and it is so fast and easy that you could make several plates from one drawing depending on how you crop it. I am hopeful that the kids with like it as much as I do. I have tried printing these plates as intaglio plates and have varied results. I think that I will try this with the presses at New Hampshire Institute of Art next friday. http://www.linda-germain.com/

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