Posted in Workshops, tagged Cathy Naro, cursos de grabado, estudio de grabado, flamenco, Granada, Maureen Booth, Niños Vereda Enmedio, printmaking, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking studio, printmaking techniques, printmaking workshops on April 30, 2012| 1 Comment »
What’s a Gallinero? And why would you want to stay there?
Chicago printmaker, Cathy Naro, who was here last year around this time, has returned for another workshop with Maureen. This time they’re working on combining some of the solar-plate prints Cathy made last time with liquid-metal techniques. (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andalucia, arte apisonadora, Brian Barry, Granada, impresiones gigantes, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, Spain, steamroller art on April 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Brian Barry of Cork Printmakers is promoting a three-dayfestival of steam-rollered linocuts in Granada this year (place and date to be announced).
Irish printmaker, Brian Barry, the member of Cork Printmakers who participated in the organization Ireland’s first giant-prints-pressed-with-a-steamroller event, has arrived in Granada with his portable street-festival giant-linocut show. Having spent the past few weeks contacting and organizing local artists he now has enough participants and has ordered big, 80×190 cm., artist’s linoleums. As soon as they arrive the Granada artists will begin carving their images into the linos, which will then be inked with big paint rollers and laid down under paper or fabric to have the image trasferred by means of a standard road-works steam roller. Here’s a link to the new Impresiones Gigantes website, and a video of a similar event staged in Missoula, Montana last year.
Sounds like a lot of fun. We’ll keep you posted.
Posted in Workshops, tagged Australian artist, Granada, liquid metal printmaking, Lorna Burden, Maureen Booth, solarplate on April 13, 2012| 2 Comments »
Australian artist, Lorna Ryan Burden, came to Granada last spring with her husband, Roger. She discovered solar plates then and was looking forward to returning to Melbourne and springing them on her printmaker friends. When Lorna and Roger left she said what almost everybody says, “We’ll be back!”
Sure enough, they’re back. After dazzling her colleagues with solar last year, she’s dedicating herself this time to learning liquid-metal printmaking and she’s producing some wonderful museum-quality prints using that technique (see photographs below).
Roger’s art is restricted to architecture, so when he’s in Granada with Lorna he spends his time taking long walks along the river, reading and taking it easy. Lest he get bored this time, I invited him on the first morning to take a long stroll around Granada’s high points. I haven’t done that for years, and the tour surprised me almost as much as it did Roger. (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cursos de grabado, estudio de grabado, geese, Granada, Granada springtime, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking techniques, Rio Genil, Spain on April 9, 2012| 4 Comments »
I love this time of year. Yesterday Mike walked down the river road to the village bakery and took his camera with him. Here’s what was happening in the river:
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