Hello Fall & White Line Wood Cut & Collagraph Printing
Hello! It’s been a minute. The summer is officially over—I can’t believe it — but I am relieved to have a bit of a reprieve from the heat of the summer months this year.
Now, I wanted to pop up here again to share a few new printmaking techniques I’ve been working on and a few other updates from my artistic world.
White Line Woodcuts
First, I took a great class this summer at Sanborn Mills Farm in New Hampshire, led by printmaker Kate Hanlon. She’s a gem of a teacher, especially at a beautiful farm location like Sanborn Mills. While there, we learned White Line Woodcut, an American printmaking style created in Provincetown during the interwar period. To simplify a more intricate process, this process allows painting color directly on the block, then hand printing, with only the white lines you carve to outline your work shown on the hand-pressed print. I couldn’t recommend learning this technique more! I had an absolute blast. Now, I hope to keep working in this style, too.
If you’d like to learn more about the white line woodcut, check out Blanche Lazell’s work as well as the demo below:
Print Residency and Collagraphs
I also spent three days at a printmaking residency at Peter Valley School of Craft . It was a fantastic experience! The location is perfect out near the Delaware Water Gap. While there, you live and eat with two other printmakers in a small town that was saved from a dam project in the 20th century to then be repurposed as an artistic community. I think it’s a real hidden gem of the New Jersey craft community. If you’re a printmaker, check out their classes and residency opportunities.
White there I did some traditional woodcut, but experimented with intaglio & relief printmaking with cut up cardboard and mat board collagraphs.
Here’s a brief tutorial on a collagraph process, too. I recommend it both because it can be inexpensive but also it can achieve vibrant, graphic results. I think it will be a process I will be working in more because I feel as if I can push it to be bold in new and exciting ways for me in printmaking.
Open Studios Jersey City October 4th and 5th
And to end, quick note that I will be doing an open studio as part of Elevator JC, my new artistic studio community!
You can find me on the 5th floor in the shared studios area.
I will be showing a handful of my larger works on canvas and have smaller works for sale and in frames.
Save the date:
Saturday & Sunday October 5th & 6th between 1-5pm.📍135 Erie Floors 3-5