#print studios

[vacantwatchers]

Finally scanning my work for Print Studios and boy howdy do I have a lot of prints. So many dope bleeds/mistakes in the text.

I’ll upload them whenever.

[vacantwatchers]

Downloaded Photoshop. 3 hours of fumbling along with tutorials later, I think I have a decent bitmap image for my print studios class tomorrow.

I have a couple more image/collage ideas so I'm hoping that what I put in my visual diary helps back up my thought process.

[byoprint]

BYO Print Member Spotlight: Christiane Moore

Grown in central Pennsylvania, learned at MICA (earning her BFA in Printmaking), and settled in Fishtown, Philadelphia, Christiane Moore is an artist and textile designer who best loves paint and silkscreen.  In addition to being a member of BYO Print, Christiane designs for the print studio Printfresh and volunteers her time and artistic skills at the Chenoa Manor Animal Sanctuary.  Her current work explores the decorative imagery of domesticated plants and animals, as well as their dominion over both our homes and our hearts (as Jon Mooallem's book Wild Ones puts it so eloquently, "They are free-roaming Rorschachs, and we are free to spin whatever stories we want about them.  The [wild] animals always have no comment.")

You can find more of Christiane’s work at: website: http://christiane.paperpetual.com store: http://paperpetual.storenvy.com/products instagram: https://instagram.com/defaunicorn

Image 1: Finn, 6-color Silkscreen, 11"x14", 2014 Image 2: Zombie, Water Soluble Crayon on Silkscreen, 12" x 16", 2014 Image 3: Howl & Tomas, Gouache, 7"x11", 2015

[byoprint]

BYO Print Member Spotlight: Katie VanVliet

This year Katie VanVliet has been working on a series of manipulated found object sculptures; Tools, Talismans, Totems. Soon, she'll get back into the printshop (her favorite time to bunker down in the printshop is winter), and begin a new series of etchings. Intaglio is her preferred medium in the print studio, as the process of working the plate is so sculptural.

Website: www.katevanvliet.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/kvanvliet

Top Image: Rake, 2015 copper, horsehair, silver, linen Electrical wires were stripped and hammered, then braided like I used to braid my father's ponytail. 

Middle Image: Insect Net, 2015 copper, brass, plastic, beeswax, quail eggs A copper plumbing pipe was hammered and formed into a frame, and outfitted with produce netting to hold the quail eggs that I found at my grandparents' house. 

Lower Image: Wire Strippers, 2014-15 silver, brass The handles of plain tea spoons I found in my mother's and grandmother's houses were cut into the shape of wire stripping tools. Can also be used for silverpoint drawing.

[byoprint]

BYO Print Member Spotlight: Nomas Print

In 2014, I spent a year making over 10,000 prints in Houston, Texas. It is my ambition as a Printmaker to be constantly making things. It is my way of documenting the passing of time. I take pride in immersing myself in the tradition of hand made goods. 

Website: nomasprint.com Etsy: nomasprint.etsy.com Instagram: instagram.com/nomasprint Twitter: twitter.com/nomasprint

Image 1: Got a 'Lil Sumptin on Yr Back, Woodcut, 12"x12", 2015 Image 2: Old Money $$$, Woodcut, 12"x12", 2015 Image 3: Muscle Memory, Woodcarving on 3/4" Thick MDF Board, 12"x12", 2015

[byoprint]

BYO Print Member Spotlight: Ellyn Womelsdorf

Ellyn's preferred mediums to work in are etching, screen printing, and ink drawing, and lately she's been working on finding a way to merge them together. Having already found a way to incorporate her other worldly and often colorful ink drawings with the clean black lines and versatility of screen printing, now she is beginning to experiment with the gritty and sometimes gloomy atmosphere of etching with the colorful plumes and clouds of color that she creates in her ink drawings.

Website: http://EllynWomelsdorf.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/helicoptersandribbons

Image 1: Endless Possibilities, ink and colored pencil Image 2: Zweite Geist, ink, screenprint, and colored pencil Image 3: Etching plate in progress 

[byoprint]

BYO Print Member Spotlight: Nicole Saltzer

Nicole is a screen printer and illustrator from Philadelphia. She has done work for bands like Vita and the Woolf (Philadelphia) and CrumbSnatchers (Knoxville, TN). She likes to focus on comical, entertaining and quirky imagery, representing emotional elements through bizarre characters. 

Website: www.ikkiillustrations.com Instagram: instagram.com/ikkiillustrations

[byoprint]

This weekend BYO Print will be participating in the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Stop on by to see the shop for yourself, and to check out what our members have been making!