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The Story of This Print: Voladores/Flyers

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

"Flyers" print using etching and liquid-metal techniques.It was autumn and the air was full of things flying around. What flies around my garden ends up flying around my head. This was the first print in which I mixed etching and liquid-metal techniques. First I varnished the zinc plate and etched the drawing. Then I added a soft ground and pressed different elements into it to achieve texture and content. Finally I used Nural 21 liquid metal to create the bird, which stands out in relief. There is no aquatint on this plate.

This Voladores print was exhibited at the National Arts Club in New York in 2010, part of an exhibit mounted by tireless printmaking advocate, Stephen Fredericks, and the New York Society of Printmakers.

What’s a Gallinero? And why would you want to stay there?

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Cathy Naro Discovers Liquid-Metal Printmaking Solution in U.S.A.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Cathy Naro, Maureen Booth in Maureen's printmaking studio in Granada, Spain

Cathy and Maureen review one of Cathy's new prints in Maureen's studio in Granada

In my Liquid Metal Printmaking video I use a two-tube epoxy adhesive (“cold metal solder”) called “Nural 21″ sold by a Spanish firm called Pattex. As it turned out, this product is not available in the U.S.A. and some American artists have been frustrated trying to find a suitable substitute. Now Cathy Naro has found it. I’ll let her tell you about it: (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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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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The Six A.M. Printmaker

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Cathy Naro and Maureen checking some of Cathy's printsI remarked here recently that the artists who come to Granada to work with me usually limited their activities to printmaking and the obligatory visit to the Alhambra. But after Chicago printmaker Cathy Naro’s visit that has changed. Cathy, with a bit of forethought and a sense of adventure, fitted everything in. (more…)

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How to Number Fine-Art Prints

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 28, 2011| 2 Comments »

Maureen Booth in her Granada printmaking studioThe system of numbering and documentation of fine-art editions is designed to guarantee the authenticity and originality of prints in the art market. Each print is signed by the author (usually, but not always) in the lower right-hand corner or margin. In the opposite corner goes the edition numbering, two numbers divided by a slanted stroke. The bottom number represents the total number of prints in the edition; the top one the order in which the artist has signed that particular print. (more…)

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Six Things that Surprise Artists When They Come to Stay in the Gallinero – II/II

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2011| 3 Comments »

El Gallinero, looking through the kitchen/sitting room past the French doors to the terrace into the bedroom/workroom.4.   The Focus—When is the last time you’ve had two or three weeks with nothing to think about, nothing to spend your time on but art? It sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? But that’s what happens to people when they arrive in Granada for one of my printmaking workshops. This is especially true of the artists who come to do one-on-one collaborative work with me. Their involvement here is total, their existence almost monastic. They divide their time between the creative cloister of the Gallinero and my studio. We usually work together for five hours each morning. Then, after lunch, they make their own hours, either working in the studio or sketching glimpses of the village and the surroundings. Some of them stay in the studio past midnight. (more…)

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Six Things that Surprise Artists When They Stay in the Gallinero – I/II

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Maureen Booth's "El Gallinero" artists' residence in Granada, SpainMaureen Booth, Granada, July 18, 2011–I’ve had artists coming to stay in my “Gallinero” artists’ residence and work with me in my printmaking studio for a year and a half now. I’ve welcomed all sorts of people: working artists, advanced beginners, people between the ages of 15 and 82, a Canadian return-to-art person, a couple of delightful veteran artists and art educators from Colorado, a Hungarian sculptor, an Australian painter… All of them have taught me something, and I’d like to think the experience was mutual. And there’s one thing they all agree upon: Printmaking here in Granada and staying in the Gallinero is a unique creative experience. That compels me to try to figure out what makes it so. I’ve made a list of possible factors: (more…)

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Happy as an Idiot with a Pencil III/III by Maureen Booth

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 6, 2011| 1 Comment »

Maureen and Cuca in the studioThe Mother of All Communications Tools

If you’re interested in having mathematical laws work in your favor—and you are—you’re going to have to brush up your Internet skills a bit beyond sending emails and logging onto your Facebook and Twitter accounts. You should at least know how to create and maintain a blog. This is fun and easy, once you surmount a not-too-steep learning curve. I cannot overemphasize the importance of Internet for artists. A dozen years ago, when my husband proposed to make me my first website, I said, “What do I want a website for? I’m an artist.” Today he’s at work on his seventh (Or eighth? I’ve lost count.) printmaking website, some of which are exclusively mine, others in which I participate with other printmakers and studios. Today 90% of my living comes either directly or indirectly via the Web of Webs. (more…)

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