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How to print with string, tape, peas, and rice from The Printmaking Handbook

Today, I have 4 tutorials for printing with unusual objects from the book The Printmaking Handbook. Learn how to print with string, adhesive tape, spit peas and rice by clicking on this page from The Printmaking Handbook to enlarge.

I think I'm going to look around and see what else I can come up with to make prints with!

More about the Chartwell Book:

The Printmaking Handbook

by

LOUISE WOODS

This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers.

This book is an invaluable introduction to printmaking methods, taking you step by step through the technical details as well as providing inspirational examples of prints in all media. Although some of the print processes have a long tradition and are carried out in much the same way as they always were, there can be no doubt that modern technology has made it easier to extend the potential of individual printmaking methods and to combine their efforts in multimedia images.

From relif printing to intaglio printing, and from lithography to screenprinting, The Printmaking Handbook has a wide range of information for anyone interested in printmaking. 

    
 

Use edible inks to print on tortillas from the book How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers

Check out this great idea for stamping images on tortillas with edible ink from the new book How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers: Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed-Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles.

This gave me an idea. I love it when a book does that!

Why not try stamping on a tortilla with food coloring.

It was pretty easy. I put a drop of food coloring on a plate and spread it around. I dabbed the stamp in the food coloring and just started stamping. It took a few tries but once I figured out the right amount of food coloring the impressions came out pretty good.

I bet this would be a fun idea for party food or a great surprise in someones lunch!

More about the Voyager Press book:

How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers:
Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed-Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles

by

Ruthann Godollei

Whether your band is just starting out or touring the nation, here’s how you can build its identity by making your own unique gig posters, custom T-shirts, album covers, record sleeves, and stickers. Fans want cool and creative band merchandise, and this book gives you the tools and information you need to create your own.

 

Author Ruthann Godellei is an artist and printmaking professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, with vast experience making gig posters as well as teaching band members how to make their own. She explains, with step-by-step instructions and photos, techniques like screenprinting, photocopy art, mixed-media collage, stencil, stamping, and other guerilla art styles.

 

Included as well is a gallery of art and artists to inspire you in creating your band’s look with your merch.

Ruthann Godellei (St.Paul, MN) is an artist and printmaking professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is in collections such as the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, Syracuse University, and the Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK.

Book Launch Party for the new book One Painting A Day by Timothy Callaghan

Today I have in a cool exercise for painting in a single value from One Painting A Day: A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences

and a bit of info about a

Book Launch Party!

at the

William Busta Gallery

Saturday June 15th  2-4pm 

The William Busta Gallery is at 2731 Prospect Ave  Cleveland, OH 44115 (216) 298-9071

Please join Timothy Callaghan for a gathering to celebrate the release of his new book One Painting A Day.

This book is all about painting the things around you and boy does this balled up piece of paper look familiar to me! Try this exercise for painting a single value from One Painting A Day: A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences:

Value refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a

color. In representational painting, the most fundamental

application of value is to give a two-dimensional shape a

volumetric form. This is achieved when a color moves

from dark to light in gradual shifts within the shape.

Value also refers to light and how it informs the subject

in a painting. For this painting, I wanted to explore these

concerns with one object and a limited palette. I chose to

look at a crumpled piece of notebook paper with the

light source behind it in order to show very subtle shifts

in value and a dramatic cast shadow.

EXERCISE 2

A white still life is a great subject for exploring

value. Choose one to three objects that are white

or at least are neutral in color. Light your subject

with a direct source, like a lamp, so that you can

see the shifts in value from light to dark on the

objects, as well as on the cast shadows.

T I P

If you choose to use a limited palette, try to experiment with

color rather than black paint to darken the colors. For my

painting, I used only blue, sepia, and white. You can also

choose two complementary colors like blue and orange to create

a neutral darker color to mix with the white. You don’t have

to necessarily blend all the values to create volume, but you do

need to have a full range of value in order to give the objects

a volumetric form.

 

More about the Quarry book:

One Painting A Day:

A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences

by

Timothy Callaghan

One Painting A Day offers you an inspiring six-week course exploring the timeless traditions of observational painting through daily experience and routine.

This motivational guide is broken up into three parts to focus on the three major traditions of observational painting: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Each of the 42 daily exercises launches a small, immediate, and responsive painting based on a theme drawn from your daily experience. You will find suggestions on technique, approach, and materials for each day, while the “weekly lessons” explore a format or a rhythm for creating content, inspiring you to make the ordinary extraordinary as you create from every day experience. This beautiful collection of contemporary paintings serves as a workbook of ideas for aspiring artists, art students, professional designers, and art lovers alike.

Timothy Callaghan is a painter who lives and works in Cleveland, OH. He received an MFA from Kent State in 2005 and a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999. Presently, he is a visiting professor at Oberlin College and an adjunct faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cuyahoga Community College. Callaghan has exhibited his work in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. The Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Art Association have collected his work, and he is represented by William Busta Gallery in Cleveland. Visit him online at http://www.timothycallaghan.com and http://timothycallaghan.tumblr.com.

    

Recipe for a Third Rail Cocktail from the cookbook An Apple a Day

I don't know about you but I generally like to celebrate Friday evening with a cocktail and sometimes it's an old standby and then on occasion I like to try something new, so for this Tasty Friday I am sharing with you a recipe for a Third Rail cocktail from the book An Apple A Day: 365 Recipes with Creative Crafts, Fun Facts, and 12 Recipes from Celebrity Chefs Inside!. Depending on your cocktail tast this may be something new (as it is for me) or a classic. Have a great weekend!

 

Click on this page from An Apple A Day to enlarge and read the full recipe for a Third Rail, The Remix.

More about the Race Point cookbook:

An Apple A Day: 365 Recipes with Creative Crafts, Fun Facts, and 12 Recipes from Celebrity Chefs Inside!

by

Karen Berman

and

Melissa Petitto

 

Taking something classic and giving it a new twist, An Apple a Day is a fresh, daily cookbook, filled to the brim with 365 apple recipes carefully selected to reflect the holidays, seasons, and months of the year (Pumpkin-Apple Soup in October; Grilled Turkey Burger with Apple-Chipotle Sauce in July), as well as current culinary trends and decorating projects.

 

Different from other apple cookbooks on the market, this extensive collection of recipes will go far beyond the tried and true apple dishes, to include novel recipes for savory meals such as Risotto with Apples and Crêpes, salads such as Thai-Style Pork Belly with Apples; cocktails such as Frozen Apple Daiquiri—and so much more. Nor will traditional favorites be neglected; the book will offer multiple ways to make applesauce, baked apples, pies, tarts, muffins, crisps, pastries and cookies. The recipes in the book will be accompanied by crafty, room decor and ambience-enhancing projects such as seasonal centerpieces and apple-scented candles, designed for a delightful, multi-sensory apple experience. 

 

Notes on apple varieties will instruct on picking the perfect apple for any occasion and sidebars will be used to reflect interesting apple stats, tales from literature and folklore, pairing tips, and surprising apple fun facts. Also sprinkled throughout are quotations and favorite apple recipes shared by some of today’s popular celebrity chefs, reflecting a variety of different cultures and styles of cuisine, such as Michael Gilligan and Ian Kittichai. 

 

 

See, smell, and best of all taste for yourself, hundreds of ways to enjoy one of the world’s most versatile fruits of all time.

  

Karen Berman is writer and editor who specializes in food and lifestyle topics. Her previous cookbooks include Friday Night Bites: Kick Off the Weekend with Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Family, The Little Black Book of Hors d’ Oeuvres and The Little Black Book of Coffee. She has worked in various editorial capacities on more than 30 cookbooks and has written more articles than she can count for magazines, newspapers and websites. She holds a certificate in cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. 


Melissa Petitto is a registered dietician and personal chef with an A-list clientele that includes Lucy Liu, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Christy Turlington. After studying at Johnson & Wales University - where she received the top honor of Apprentice Cuisinier - Petitto worked in the test kitchen at Cooking Light magazine. This is her first book.

    

How to enhance your paintings with silver leaf from the book Daring Adventures in Paint

Do you like the idea adding some sparkly and shine to your mixed media art? Well check out this tutorial on how to enhance you art with silver leaf from the book Daring Adventures in Paint
Find Your Flow, Trust Your Path, and Discover Your Authentic Voice-Techniques for Painting, Sketching, and Mixed Media.

Click on these pages from Daring Adventures in Paint to enlarge and read the tutorial on how to add silver leaf to your painting and drawing mixed media art.

 

More about the inspiring Quarry book:

Daring Adventures in Paint
Find Your Flow, Trust Your Path, and Discover Your Authentic Voice-Techniques for Painting, Sketching, and Mixed Media

by

Mati Rose McDonough

Daring Adventures in Paint is a colorful, whimsical adventure of a book that explores inspirational paint and mixed-media techniques. Written by the well-loved artist/illustrator/blogger Mati Rose McDonough, this book's approach to making art is a bit like uncovering a hidden treasure, a treasure that resides within each aspiring artist. Through a myriad of both practical applications and creative exercises, Mati shows artists how to "find their magic"—the place of confidence from which they can access the vision of what they want to share with the world.

Mati Rose McDonough is an artist and illustrator who lives in San Francisco, CA, where she regularly encounters lucky elephants, talking birds and a mysterious girl who always wears feathers in her hair. These creatures of mystery and grace remind Mati daily that no one is too old for magic or too young for beauty, so she paints their stories in paint, fabric, found paper and canvas for fans of hope and adventure all over our dear world. When she’s not covered in paint you can find her biking to the ocean, drinking tea and searching for colorful baubles of inspiration to share with you. Mati studied painting at the California College of the Arts and has had many shows around the country. Mati has taught around the country at Art Nest in Utah, Artful Journey in California and Toscana Americana in Italy. She is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio in illustration and licensing and has had her art published on Patagonia shirts, featured in Pier 1, University Game boards, Madison Park Greeting products and Oopsy Daisy canvases. Mati has also been included in several magazines and books including features in Artful Blogging magazine and The Handmade Marketplace book. www.matirose.com.