Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acid etching, Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta, Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking in Spain, Spain, Tormenta on December 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged best loved dogs, Maureen Booth, printmaking in Spain, printmaking techniques, solar plate prints from old sketches, telephone doodles on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged artist's residence, cursos de grabao, estudio de grabado, Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking in Spain, Printmaking Master Classes, printmaking techniques, printmaking tips, printmaking videos, residencia de artistas on November 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I’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:
You can find previews and order links for these new videos here on the Printmaking Master Classes site.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged artist's residence, cursos de grabado, El Gallinero, estudio grabado, Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking in Spain, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, residencia de artistas, talleres obra gráfica on July 21, 2011| 3 Comments »
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…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Barbara Milman, California Society of Printmakers, El Gallinero, Maureen Booth, printmaking Granada, printmaking in Spain on May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Barbara Milman, an ex president of the California Society of Printmakers was here recently making solarplate prints with Maureen in the studio. When she got back home she published this report on the society’s newsletter. Thank you Barbara, for the plug! Here’s the link: http://caprintmakers.wordpress.com/
Printmaking Courses in Spain 