A bunch of us have been collecting walnuts this fall. There has been an unusual abundance of them this year. We have talked about making dye for cloth, pigment for  paper, ink for drawing and how it might be possible to make oil based ink for printing. Has anyone had any experience with using black [...]

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Somehow Abigail Uhteg managed to not only edition a book and take some of the sweetest photos ever during her residency here at WSW, but she also managed to put together over 3000 of her photos to make a fabulous video of the process. We cant stop watching this!
You can learn more about abby at [...]

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This week a recipe, of sorts, in honor of the arrival of some new friends- Process Yellow, Process Cyan & Process Magenta! Oh! how excited we are to meet you!
And how lucky we are to have Kyla here to give us a formal introduction:

Color Separation
for Silkscreen in Photoshop
Kyla Luedtke
Open Photoshop and open your image.
Under Image>Image [...]

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Sheila Marbain was a master printer who specialized in screen printing. She opened her first studio in 1955 which specialized in collaborative projects with contemporary artists. In the early 1960’s she began incorporating photo screen techniques and took on projects for artists such as Lichtenstein and Oldenberg that required printing on three-dimensional objects. She worked [...]

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Laureen just finished a 3 week residency in our silkscreen studio. I had been eagerly anticipating her stay as it is not often enough for me that we get in residents who are working on textiles and experimenting with new techniques and certainly not in the scale that Laureen is working on. It was a [...]

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