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Culture Straight from the Street–Granada’s “Impresiones Gigantes 2013”

Posted in Printmaking Events, tagged Giant linocut prints, Granada, Impresiones Gigantes 2013, printmaking, printmaking workshops on May 26, 2013| 6 Comments »

Granada celebrated all day yesterday, Saturday May 25, 2013 the second edition of Impresiones Gigantes in which a group of hard-working international lino-cut artists bring their linos out into the park, ink them in front of a mesmerized public, then carefully lay them down on the street , cover them with fabric and run a road roller over them. Shazam! A giant print. Then they hang them all over the bandstand and the lamp posts in the Paseo del Salón. It makes a glamorous display that attracts lots of art lovers and Saturday strollers. (more…)

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A Fast, Handy New Way to Access My Printmaking Master Classes Videos

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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Cathy Naro Strikes Again

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…)

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Steam Roller Art Comes to Granada

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.

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

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El Niño de la Pinturas

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:

“Cansado de las mismas respuestas,decidi cambiar mis preguntas”

“¿son números lo que tu alma nutre?”

“¿quizás el materialismo se está apoderando de nuestras almas? ”

“¿Qué hacer con juegos que siempre se pierden?”

“…sólo quien a renunciado a la victoria y a la derrota encuentra su camino… “

“…y haciendo cosas que rompo para arreglarlas y volver a romperlas paso mi tiempo…”

“y el tiempo se acaba…y la vida no espera…”

“el mundo está oscuro…ilumina tu parte…”

“Y donde miro si ojos no tengo…”

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?

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

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The Story of This Print: Voladores/Flyers

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged etching liquid metal, Granada, Maureen Booth, National Arts Club, NY Society Etchers, printmaking courses, printmaking Spain, printmaking studio, printmaking techniques, printmaking workshops, Voladoresprintmaking lessons on February 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged City of Light, Granada, liquid metal printmaking, Maureen Booth, Paris, printmaking in Spain, printmaking tutorials, printmaking videos, printmaking workshops, Spain on December 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

City of Light

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.