My daughter joined the children circus summer camp ZIWOLI and I was asked to print T-Shirts for all the children and staff.
Printing 150 T-Shirts felt like quite a challenge as I haven’t done more than 5 to 10 printings in one go yet. But after messing up the first shirt it worked out really smoothly and with a little help I finished the job in one afternoon. After all it was real fun and I’m looking forward to the next project.
One day I showed up completely unprepared at Louise Rath‘s workshop. While desparately looking for some inspiration I stumbled upon this “animal skull in a cube” which already caught my eye in the previous weeks. It happens to be one of Christina Hartl-Prager‘s latest artworks who is also residing in this studio.
I drew it on transparent paper and exposed one screen for the black outlines of the cube and the skull. The colorful skull shape was printed through a screen with a hand-cut stencil. Working with a mix of 3 colors led to a unique result for each of the 10 prints.
The foretaste of summer we are currently experiencing in Vienna makes those prints look a bit out of place. I started this project a few weeks ago while it was still freezing and it only got finished today. A belated farewell.
I’m attending a screen printing workshop with Louise Rath. That’s my result of today’s lesson.
My first multi-color reduction linocut is dedicated to this racing legend. The 917 was the first Porsche to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
I was always fascinated by the myth of Le Mans. Linocut looks like an interesting technique to pay tribute to some racing legends.
New year, new category – printmaking!