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| Composite Photo thanks to Janet Best Badger |
If you've never been to the previous Rockin' and Rollin' prints events, you have missed a treat. Artists carve themed images of 3 x 5 foot pieces of plywood or MDF. It takes a few months. On the day, the very large carving block is inked and printed by way of a steamroller. Later there will be a showing of the finished prints. This is put on every other year by PRINTHOUSTON( formerly Print Matters Houston) Our host this year was The Orange Show. The weather threatened not to cooperate, but we were given a reprieve. Luckily the Orange Show owns a very large warehouse where the whole event took place. A core group of hardy sketchers turned out on the very damp, gray day to witness the event. First there is Judith's image in the header. Now you may notice that the header image is in color. The original was not. This brings up a very important point. It is perfectly ok to grab the sketch on the fly and make improvements to it later. (more on that later) |
| Judith |
A little color added with pencil, watercolor or as Judith did in Procreate doesn't hurt. And it's still an urban sketch.
Of course everyone wanted to sketch the steamroller process. People stood mesmerized print after print watching the magic happen.
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| Michael |
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| Chris |
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| Peter |
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| Carlos |
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Judith
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Luckily, there were also things going on inside the warehouse. Venders had set up to sell their own work, concessions were selling food and drink and the inking of the blocks and hanging of the prints was taking place there. Michael was working to capture that part of the event along with Peter and Carlos and Chris. |
| Michael's drawing of David Webb inking a block |
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| Peter |
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| Carlos |
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| Carlos |
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| Chris's sketch of Leamon Green inking |
My sketch started out as a plain line drawing with a tiny bit of ink shading. Colored pencil added at home brought it to life.
We had a throwdown, of course.
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| The throwdown |
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Luckily, there were also things going on inside the warehouse. Venders had set up to sell their own work, concessions were selling food and drink and the inking of the blocks and hanging of the prints was taking place there. Michael was working to capture that part of the event along with Peter and Carlos and Chris.
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