Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Monday, December 23, 2013

Belskie Museum

"Unusual" Art show
Dates: January 5 - 26, 2013

The Belskie Museum of Art and Science
280 High Street
Closter, NJ 07624


Opening January 5th, 1 - 5 pm.
Stop by and see the show!

Press Release
http://www.belskiemuseum.com/images/CurrentExhibit_PressRelease.pdf

Friday, December 06, 2013

Winter Solstice Show at Griffin Museum

Dates: December 12 - 23
Reception: December 12, 6:00-8:00 pm


at The Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester, MA 01890

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

http://lacda.com

Dec. 12, 2013 - Jan. 4, 2014
Reception: December 12, 7-9pm

Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Fort Worth Community Arts Center

9x12 Show

 Dates: December 6 - 27, 2013
Reception: Dec. 6th, 6pm - 9pm

Fort Worth Community Arts Center
1300 Gendy Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107

Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Ritual at 110 Church Gallery

in Philadelphia

It's a one-page book show in which many artist folded a single piece of paper into a booklet (usually 8 pages).  Mine started with a single pieces of 11" x 17" paper.




The animation below is shown in the order that the folded book reads.
It is titled, "Ritual Ballet Repetition Pattern".  Essentially, it was an excuse to draw motion, since I've been teaching two sections of life drawing all semester, with models that were holding still for twenty minutes at a time.  Drawing a dancing figure was an obvious opposite to the still figures.  Much of the photography I've been editing has dark vignetting bringing focus to the center.  Also, I had just watched the latest James Bond movie.



The images on the back of the paper are pretty interesting.  The marker bled through and made some varied marks, that ,with some slight enhancement, made for some lively little drawings.





Tuesday, November 26, 2013

"Exposure" at Open Shutter Gallery


December 6, 2013 - January 9, 2014

Reception on Friday, Dec. 6

This photogravure is one of many images in the show (juried by Cara Weston)


735 Main Avenue
Durango, CO
(970) 382-8355






Friday, November 22, 2013

Art In a Box



Art In A Box
2013 Benefit Holiday Art Exhibition
for Children at Risk
held at Cheryl Pelavin Gallery

preview link opens on Monday, Dec 2, 2013 at 7 am
http://www.artinabox.org/benefitartexhibition.htm
and the sale starts online on December 6th at 12:01 AM

Holiday Party, Reception, and Last Chance to purchase art
Thursday, December 12th from 5 - 8 pm

Cheryl Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street
New York, NY 10013

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Making Photogravures With Polymer Plates (Book)

The book is ready!



photogravure instruction book


$11.99  Introductory price.

available through Amazon


ISBN-13: 978-0615919218

ISBN-10: 0615919219 


Learn photogravure with this step-by-step instruction book. It has over 250 images and 140 pages of explanations that reveal what is needed to use steel reinforced, photo sensitive polymer, to create stunning intaglio plates.  

Applicable for experts and beginners alike, individuals with small home-made darkrooms or large universities, the methods shown will open the possibilities of intaglio image making without the need for acids, high v.o.c. solvents, fine rosin dust, or petrochemical asphaltum. The aquatint and image are made with film positives and UV light. The plates are etched with water. Both traditional oil based inks and modern "safe" etching inks can be used to make the final print.   

Photogravure is a photo-mechanical process in which etching ink is pushed into the recesses of a fine matrix ("aquatint") of a printing plate. Excess ink is wiped from the surface by hand. Damp cotton paper is run through an etching press with the inked plate, where it picks up the image. The resulting print is one of the most archivally stable ways of photographic reproduction known.   

Included inside the book is a unique method for visually creating adjusted digital transparencies. The technique can easily be adopted for the creation of digital negatives for any of the "alternative" photographic processes that are seeing a resurgence in recent years.   

Practitioners of polymer photogravure are not limited to just photographs. The same plates make beautiful etchings and reproductions of hand drawn images. Many artists use hybrid drawing and photographic methods to create intricate and beautiful work with the polymer plates. 

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Here us a link to a video that shows printing in real time...




Sunday, October 27, 2013

6 year old design still going strong


I did this six or seven years ago.  Made a couple of screens to put it on a tshirt.  The screens are still good.  I also uploaded it to Cafepress so that people in other states can enjoy the design.  (here is the link)
http://www.cafepress.com/artandwater/6420470