GALLERY COSMOSIS

Is an Artists Studio & Gallery and Hub for Visionary Art in Byron Bay NSW Australia. We are aligned with Art in Paradise, organising Visionary Art Retreats with well known Visionary Artists from OS, many of whom teach at the Academy of Visionary Arts in Vienna.

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Teaching linocut printmaking

Karen has been learning printing from me. She has made some wonderful blocks & printed her first piece of fabric this week, which we were both very pleased with!

Karen loading the block with fabric paint on a foam roller

Second print

                                                   The Lino block loaded with fabric paint

Finished Fabric piece

Printing the Gallery Cosmosis curtains

Today I hung the new curtains for the front windows of Gallery Cosmosis in the Byron Bay Arts & Industrial Estate. It has taken more about 3 weeks to hand print both sides of the 9 curtains using both lino block prints & a silk screened Lotus design. I am very pleased with the results! Now the gallery looks great from the outside as well as from the inside! Here are some pix of me printing the curtains in the studio, and the finished curtains hung.
Loading the block with fabric paint form the roller

Printing a dragonfly on the front side of the curtain

Printing a dragonfly on the reverse side of the curtain

A dragonfly print

Front side of the curtain