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The Story of This Print: City of Light / Ciudad de la Luz

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

City of Light

"City of Light," a liquid-metal print by Maureen Booth

This print, which I made 8-10 years ago, was actually made for a commission, the biggest one I ever got. (Some day I’ll tell you how I got it.) The client was a Parisian real-estate company with 1,000 employees and they wanted Christmas presents for all of them. The only condition was that the images had to be versions of the buildings they were making in La Defense quarter, outside of Paris. They accepted all of the prints except this one. It seemed that the architect had changed the look of the building, and this print was no longer a true representation.

No matter, I editioned it myself and introduced it into my own distribution channels. Over the years it has been an excellent seller, something I never expected from a print of an office building!

This is a liquid-metal print (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E5iZYs52bM) and I think it’s the unique qualities that this technique offers which have made it successful.

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The Story of This Print: Cat and Canary / Gato y Canario

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Cat and Canary

The Thrill of a Trip; Paco Was Pleasant

In the summer of 1985 Mike and I did a six-week trip from our home in Granada to Belgrade and back, visiting a few hundred hotels in Greece, Austria and Yugoslavia along the way. Mike was European editor of a hotel guide in those days. We had a new car, which was also an incentive for the trip. This was one of the few times that we rented our house while we were traveling. Paco, the Granada jeweler and his family who rented it seemed competent and pleasant people.

Everything seemed in order. Nevertheless, every single day on that trip I expressed my concern about our canary. Would those nice people feed it and water it regularly? Would they hang the cage in the shade, out of the reach of the cats? It was my constant concern and Mike got frankly bored with me mentioning it every day. (more…)

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Have a Look at Our Village

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on December 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

These (rather disordered) snapshots should give you an idea of what our village and its environs are like. You might like it here.

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The Story of This Print: “Storm” / “Tormenta”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on December 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

"Tormenta," an etching by Maureen Booth

Soon after arriving in our village–this was 40 years ago–Mike and I took the kids, then eight and ten, on a picnic on the mountainside above the neighboring village of Guéjar Sierra. This was at a period in our lives when everything was new and uncertain. While Mike made a fire to roast some pork chops I got out my sketch pad and began to draw the scene below. There was one isolated stone cottage sitting there.  This used to be very common in the Spanish landscapes at that time. (more…)

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The Story of This Print: “Chichirriqui”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Maureen's best-loved dog, Chichirriqui

Our best-loved dog was a magical toy-terrier bitch, one of the first after our changeover from big breeds (great danes, and Spanish mastiffs) to little ones (pekes, yorkie crosses, shih tsu halfbreeds). I never fully forgave Mike for naming her Chichirriqui. He thought it was a playful name. I thought it was disrespectful for such a serious little person as Chichi, who could sit on a chair with her chin on the table and keep everybody enchanted just by cocking her head, flashing her eyes and flicking her ears first in one direction, then another. She was a delightful little one-dog circus with a wide repertory of such techniques for keeping people’s attention properly centered on her: bundy jumps, pa’ ca pa’ yas, spin arounds and shivers. (more…)

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Two New Videos for My Printmaking Master Classes Collection

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Anglo-Spanish master printmaker, Maureen Booth, in her Granada studioI’ve just added two new videos to my Printmaking Master Classes collection of printmaking tutorials for download.

Recorded in my studio in Granada, they are:

  • Traditional Printmaking 2–This is the follow up to Traditional Printmaking 1, and discusses aquatint, sugar lift and marbling techniques.
  • Printmaking Tips–This is a collection of shortcuts, safety measures, ways of economizing and working more efficiently. Taken together they should make your studio experience more pleasant and productive.

You can find previews and order links for these new videos here on the Printmaking Master Classes site.

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A Quick Look at Granada in a One-Minute Tourist Office Video

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Wondering what Granada has to offer visitors. Here’s a quick overview:

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Maureen Talks About Her New Printmaking Tutorial Videos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 10, 2011| 1 Comment »

Maureen Booth is the master printmaker who has published what some fine-art-printmaking insiders consider to be the finest printmaking tutorials on the Web. She affirms, “Making videos is like making prints. The process is essentially the same. You just try to do it better every time.”

Q/ How did you happen to embark on this printmaking-learning-videos project, Maureen? Did you have sponsorship or institutional backing of some sort?
A/ Something of that sort would have been nice, but instead of growing old waiting for it to happen, video producer, Juan Carlos Romera, and I planned and executed the whole thing ourselves, and my husband, Mike, is doing the Internet promotion. The Printmaking Master Classes project was actually Juan Carlos’s idea. He’s been fascinated with etching ever since we shot some scenes of his short film, “Bive,” in my studio seven or eight years ago. That was my first experience in front of a camera. I played an English printmaker who falls in love with a Spanish fisherman. (more…)

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Another New One

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on October 4, 2011| 1 Comment »

I’m uploading this image here as an example of the magic of printmaking. This solar-plate print called “El Duende” is based on a poem by Alejandro de Luna. It’s about the traditional creative muse that inspires Spanish artists and writers. He’s represented by that tiny figure in the white space near the top of  the image, created from a scrap of 100-year-old lace. How did the figure of a woman appear at the left of the image? As far as I can tell it’s because I used an old roller which was slightly concave from years of use and it did not exert enough pressure on that part of the print. However it happened, it’s clear to me that the duende was working beside me.

El Duende, after a poem by Alejandro de Luna

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A Selection of My Recent Prints

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I had some free time this summer–when I wasn’t making videos–to make some prints. Here’s a quick slide show with a selection of my recent work. It includes acid etching, solar plate, liquid metal, chine collé, and a reduction lino cut. Let’s see if you can tell which is which.

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