The Drawing Room Exhibition

I am pleased to announce that my drawing has been selected to be part of the The Drawing Room exhibition which is a national juried exhibition taking place as part of the 2010 DRAWN Festival in Vancouver. This festival is (I believe) the only nationwide festival dedicated to Canadian drawing practices in Canada.

Info:

The Drawing Room runs July 17 through August 7 at the Pendulum Gallery (885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver). An opening reception will take place Friday July 16, 7—9 pm.

http://www.drawnfestival.ca/DRAWNNews100619.asp

Start the Presses

After a long break from the printing presses, I have started to work with my line screen experiments again. To start me off I am working small and with one or two colors and will hopefully work towards more complex images as the semester advances. 

This test was done using a polymer plate and printed on a Vandercook Proofing press. Though, the tests started out really well, after a few prints it started filling in and I could not get it back. Additionally, I kept getting ink on the back of the printed pages and did not notice it until I got home with the prints. I will expose another plate with a modified matrix and try again this week.

And again!

Since I felt the last 4 color litho was such a success i decided to up the challenge with a much finer dot resolution and try it again. Of course, I got myself completely in over my head and had no end of trouble printing this. Wasted films, plates, paper and time to finally end up with a paltry edition of 3! 250$ worth of material and perhaps 35 hours to get 3 prints that are not even that well printed. At least I ended last year with a valuable lesson in humility.