Posted in Maureen's Work, tagged Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking techniques, printmaking videos, printmaking workshops on October 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to an exclusive new service from the world’s leading video site artists can now access my printmaking tutorials–formerly available only via download–on YouTube. So they (you) will no longer have to go through the download process. All you need to do is click on a link and start watching them immediately in streaming video, with excellent image quality even in full-screen mode.
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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 Uncategorized, tagged artists refuge Spain, cursos de grabado, El Niño de las Pinturas, estudio de grabado, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, Spain, world class grafitti on March 29, 2012| 2 Comments »
Granada doesn’t have a contemporary art museum, but it has one of the finest grafitti artists in the world, Raúl Ruiz, El Niño de las Pinturas. (Here’s his web site.) Raúl started painting on Granada’s walls in the 1990s. Over the past two decades, besides adorning his home town with a distinguished collection of wall art, always while dodging Granada’s municipals, he’s been invited to take his work to the walls of Portugal, Holland, Italy, Venezuela, Hungary, Belgium, France, among other places. Well-documented followers calculate that Raúl has more than 2,000 murals all over the world.
His work is both idealistic and poetic, and tends to feature brief prose poems done in exquisite calligraphy along with evocative scenes of infancy and adolescence, scenes which sow tenderness and solidarity wherever he works. These human elements are contrasted with the voracious metaphoric gears and train wheels that permeate industrial society.
Raúl says:
Tired of the same old answers, I decided to change my questions
is it numbers that your soul nourishes?
Perhaps materialism is devouring our souls,
What shall we do with games that are always getting lost?
only one who renounces victory and defeat can find his way…
making things that I break, just to mend them, then break them again, I spend my time…
and time runs out… life doesn’t wait…
the world is dark… enlighten your part…
Where do I look if I don’t have eyes?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cathy Naro, J-B Marine Weld, liquid metal printmaking, Maureen Booth, Nural 21, printmaking courses, printmaking Granada, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking techniques, printmaking workshops on January 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Granada attractions, Granada tourism, Granada videos, Maureen Booth, monumental Granada, printmaking courses, printmaking courses in Spain, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops on October 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Wondering what Granada has to offer visitors. Here’s a quick overview:
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged estudio obra gráfica, Granada, Maureen Booth, numeración obra gráfica, print numbering, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, taller grabado on July 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
The 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…)
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 artist's residence, El Gallinero, estudio de grabado, estudio de obra gráfica, Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, residencia de artistas, taller de grabado, taller de obra gráfica on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Maureen 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…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged artists in crisis, artists stop selling, creativity, Granada, Maureen Booth, printmaking courses, printmaking lessons, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking workshops, summer printmaking workshops on July 6, 2011| 1 Comment »
The Mother of All Communications ToolsIf 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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