Come to the Atrium area on February 11, 12:30-3:00pm. That’s this Thursday!
The City Tech Printmaking Club will be holding its 3rd Annual Potato Valentine Printing (free to all) and will also have cards printed and hand-printed by members for sale.
Patron Saint CLT Caputo printing a design on the newly refurbished platen press
A close up of the lovely design
Cards ready to go
The negative we will use to shoot more designed cards
Our first meeting was spectacular! We leapt into relief printing, and I have to say every single person rocked the world! Next week, we will continue with relief printing, working with linoleum and MDF plates! Now we will get ratified and get funds from the college to build materials, plan program, and delve further into the world of the multiple!
NEXT MEETING: For this week we will be meeting promptly in room N1119 continue the stencils, printings, and start the new concept, food printing. Bring in a fruit or vegetable, nothing squishy.
Keep sending in your drawings to print, remember you pay $7 towards your screen and to get a lemst 5 prints of your awesome art work.
I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break. I know you have thought of some interesting ideas that you would love to print. Come this Thursday to room N1119 from 12:45 – 2pm to finish printing and to create stensils. You may even learn some new techniques and fun printing ideas. Check out our past post for some videos and images of out work.
If you have already submitted an image to David for your proffessional work of art be prepared to give him $7 for the print.
I can not wait to see everyone and create new masterpieces!!!!
The film we will be using to shoot the screen print screens!
Stencil demo, although everyone at the meeting was already good at them!
Shannon cranked this pinecone out freehand. Holy cow!
We worked in N1104, but will find other rooms for printing.
Danielle and Co-Advisor Barthold were in deep discussions of drawing.
Richard reworked his image for screen print.
Jose cranked this out in mere moments. TALENT!
The PMC is kicking butt! We have settled on a general plan for the rest of the semester. We will print screen prints of student work after Spring Break, then add some stenciling and possibly relief printing from there. Join in the fun!
https://youtu.be/8GgfZYTS9I0
We are just starting to explore the stencil as a form. We welcome any student from any department. No art training? No problem!
Actually, some of this could be taken care of over email with the officers….
Signing up the rest of our members
Delineating duties
Writing constitution
Membership fee?
Filling out paperwork
Filling in the website (making officers admins)
Developing first field trip to GSS (poll members)
Printmaking Agenda (1:15-2:15):
If you are a member:
Please bring a small drawing (say 6″ x 8″ at most). We will print these on paper. NO T-SHIRTS, please do not ask.
You need to use ink, dark pencil, or thick marker to create this drawing. The line quality needs to be opaque and at least fairly thick, like this drawing by David:
Very brief intro to all general methods of fine art printmaking
What is screen printing?
Equipment
Methods
Introducing the project: single color screenprints
Preparing drawings for making good photo stencil screens
Scanning images
Editing in Photoshop
Saving print quality files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9c8sp9C7rw
David and I will take your files, create films, then bring in exposed screens and ink for you. You will need to supply your own paper when we print. Please note: if a lot of people sign up, we will have to figure out how to manage the project.
We are really trying to get the club ratified and on its way. I need help! As you can see, this email is coming out the day before the next meeting. I just had too much to get this out sooner.
Printmaking Club Meeting
Namm 1119 1:30-2:15pm, Thursday, Feb 26
I know some of you cannot come, but reach out, facebook about it tweet, all that! Get friends to come! I am attaching the pdf and a jpg so you can send the info to others as needed.
Come and sign up for a position, help write the constitution, and design the first offsite field trip! I will have a short lecture on printmaking for you, so be sure to get there by 1:45.
We will also discuss what you want to start to do – let’s just pick a form of printmaking to learn, then we will make it happen. One way or another, we will get the printing going! I also have space for a show in the Gowanus area, so we can show anything we make or hold a print exchange. All up for discussion!