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Sign up for KSW’s Two-part Screenprinting Workshop!

29 March 2010, 9:49 pm

goccoI will be teaching the first of a two-part workshop “Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting” at Kearny Street Workshop in May as part of API Cultural Center’s United States of Asian America Festival.  Learn and produce multiple prints on the Print Gocco at this hands-on workshop.  In addition to supplies to flash a master screen and equipment time to print as many as you can make in an afternoon, we’ll discuss the future of Gocco, sourcing additional supplies and equipment and tips on maximizing space on the screen, multiple color layout and doing what we can to reduce equipment malfunctions.  Handouts provided.  The following weekend, Scott Louie and Herna Cruz Louie bring us back to silkscreen on a larger format.  Be sure to register early as class size is limited.  Class Details:

yuduMay 1, 10 am – 2 pm & May 8, 10 am – 3 pm
Location: 1246 Folsom St.
Registration: $95 (includes cost of all materials)

This is a hands-on workshop for novice screen printers. Learn the basics of screen printing on all media and the complete screen printing process from artwork preparation to image burning to ink application. Make your own DIY notecards, business cards, or even a handy tote bag! After two Saturdays, you’ll be equipped with the savvy to screen print future projects on your own. Screen printing has been a tool for social and political change, and was one of the earliest classes offered by KSW. Workshop instructor Scott Louie will give you the historical context to appreciate this art form.

Day 1: Print Gocco with Debbie Yee
Learn how to use the Print Gocco, an all-in-one tabletop screenprinting machine from Japan. Produce your own small art prints, notecards, business cards and other small paper goods from images sized up to 3 1/2″ x 5″.

Day 2: Traditional Screen Printing and Yudu with Scott Louie
Screen print one artwork onto your choice of substrates (paper, cloth, wood, etc.) Then take your screen home to continue printing on your own. In addition to traditional screen printing, this session includes a tutorial on modern screen printing with the Yudu.

Registration fee is $95. To register by check, please send check or money order to: Kearny Street Workshop, P.O. Box 14545, San Francisco, CA 94114-0545. Register online. Please include your full name and contact info.

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Peapod Fabrics and place settings for Sunday brunch

21 March 2010, 7:23 pm

20100314crafts 018blogPeapod Fabrics in the Inner Sunset has the sweetest little shoebox storefront.  I had a hankering to start a sewing project and thought I’d ease into one (seriously,  just rectangles) by making placemats in anticipation of a dream dining table I hope to have one day.   (Psst…The Wooden Duck in Berkeley is having its annual Spring Sale this weekend, March 26-28.)  I was looking for Japanese import or retro-styled prints and found Peapod Fabrics based, of course, on yelp reviews.  All of the bolts of fabrics–cute, designery, calm and coordinated–all neatly lined up horizontally along the wall shelving were all bursting with unexpressed potential.  The selections are very well edited.  I paired two different cotton prints with two coordinating Kona cotton solids.  There was also a sale on decorator-weight fabrics for $10/yard, the chartreuse patterned fabrics shown.

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1 and 1/4 yards each of 2 coordinating fabrics will yield 6 reversible placemats sized about 14 1/2 by 19 inches, with 1/4 to 1/2 inch allowances all around.  It’s been so long since I did anything other than hem pants, that I’d forgotten or perhaps never realized how awesome a rotary cutter is for making straight cuts through fabric.

The result, reversible owl print placemats in neutral taupe and khaki tones:

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french toast

(Today’s Sunday Brunch at home consisted of cinnamon french toast made from Greenlee’s Bakery cinnamon bread, Niman Ranch dry-cured applewood smoked bacon and Four Barrel Ethiopia Mordecofe coffee!)

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Late, but making good on a 2009 craft fulfillment challenge

14 March 2010, 8:09 pm

I am finally addressing secondary to-do lists (primary to-do lists being such things as, Purge Closet and Sell at Crossroads Trading Co. or Donate to Goodwill, Return Straus Family Creamery Glass Milk Bottles to the market for Deposit Refund, etc.).  Check this year-old self-imposed deadline out:

fbpayitfwdWhoops!  Was that one year ago?  I had several ideas in mind on what I would make for Rosie, Thy, Phayvanh, Tamiko and Christina in this pay-it-forward craft challenge, had ideas in mind, several false starts, a bold email to them in August that something in the mail was forthcoming (*blush*) and then radio silence.  So hard to motivate even when it’s going to be something that might be fun.

Well, a week or two shy of the year anniversary of the Facebook note, I did manage to put something together, add postage and send something handmade to the gals.

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This is a linocut illustration of a Ball glass mason jar laminated and mounted onto a magnet, suitable for your fridge or workspace.

I decided to take small prints of a tiny linoleum cut of a Ball mason jar and turn them into refrigerator magnets.

How this item was made:

This is an original small edition linocut I carved from a San Francisco Center for the Book “tiny linos” workshop I took a few months ago, taught by artist Marsha Shaw.  What was neat was that, instead of printing press/proof press equipment (very large and industrial) that is usually used to make linocut editions, the “printing press” was actually a modified manual credit card imprinter!  (Check out SFCB’s website: the class is being offered again on May 1.)

20100314crafts 008I cropped the image and applied a magnet backing to the print.  The magnet was made with a small Xyron brand sticker/magnet/laminating manually-operated machine that is widely available at craft and scrapbooking stores, Amazon, eBay, etc.  The price has really gone down ($25-55) since I first bought mine 10 or so years ago!

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Craft to-do: Done!  And, hey, I’m blogging again too!  Do you procrastinate in your creative life?  Or, are crafts or hobbies an exercise in procrastination over other necessary tasks?

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