Winter Holiday Season Approaches at Lightspeed

Ah, Thanksgiving. Perhaps you gained only two or three pounds over the annual chow-down shop-fest 4-day excesses event. Lucky you. Now only three weeks to get trim for the next stuffing…

Open Studio with Carol Till was a big success. Seven members joined her to celebrate her birthday, make solar plate exposures in conditions of perfect sunshine, and make prints using her wonderful press, including chine colle. She explained all with great patience and good advice. Thank you, Carol.

…and here, your Editor’s efforts:

Solarplate embossment printing with colored inks

We all had so much fun she agreed to do it again in January! So save January 10…

Notice: Open Studio will not convene for December, as everyone is totally busy.

Exhibits: “Cannabis: A Visual Perspective” remains on display at the University of Colorado Natural History Museum in Boulder through January 2018. “Whimsy: Botanical Art & Illustration” is on view at the Denver Botanic Gardens into February 2018.

RMSBA Annual Holiday Party is December 10 at Shiere Melin’s in Arvada. Be sure to RSVP to her via your email invitation.

Election Tuesday – Remember to Vote

Reminder: Open Studio at Carol Till’s on Wednesday, November 8, 10 am – 2 pm. On the agenda: printmaking!

Carol will introduce us to the art of making embossments from solar plates (we’ll be hoping for sunshine!). Carol has small 4-6” pieces that you can use to make your own embossment plate. Ink and paper are provided.

Note from Carol to experienced printmakers: If you want to run some prints from a zinc or solar plate that you have, bring it and your own paper, and take advantage of my press. I have limited ink colors, mostly black/earth tones.

As usual, bring something for advice/critique/show-off!

Carol Till's Studio:

 3665 Estes street

 Wheat Ridge, CO

 phone: 303 423-2697

RSVP at caroltill@mindspring.com.

Example embossment rolled with ink:

An embossment printed over an etching to add texture:

 Join us!

Boo!

Dates 10/31 Halloween (All Hallows Eve; Samhain to Wiccans); 11/1 All Saints Day (All Hallows); 11/2 All Souls Day (Dia de los muertos in Mexico: Day of the Dead to honor one’s ancestors), Now that’s all set…

Reminder: Open Studio at Carol Till’s on November 8. On the agenda: printmaking!

Cannabis runs ‘till 1/31/2018 at the CU Museum of natural History. Go visit.

RARE II came down on October 9, following a nearly two and a half year tour of Colorado and New Mexico: six original venues and four add-ons. What a show!

ASBA-by-the-Bay. Who went? What happened?