http://uberpress.com/

http://uberpress.com/

The ultimate full size and portable fine art etching press that anyone can afford. The Uber Press prints high pressure etching, dry-point, zinc plate, ImagOn, Solarplate, mezzotint, and engraved plates. Monotype, relief, wood block, lino-cut and chine-cole plates are printed with a simple blanket change.

The patent-pending design has built in height adjustment to accommodate both children and adults. The Uber Press is perfect for the serious printmaker who needs a fully capable etching press with a 22" x 30" paper size. The Uber Press is ideal for schools programs that need safe, reliable and indestructible equipment. The Uber Press requires minimal cleaning maintenance and is easily transported between class rooms or schools maximizing school budgets.

With prices starting at $1595.00 USD (ready to print) the Uber Press is affordable.

A quick note:
There's a writeup on Printeresting about Shepard Fairey. While you are there, catch up on other late breaking printmaking news.
Shepard Fairey

rock poster sites

Art of Jerry Tidwell - nice range of genre's - really good integration of words
http://humantree.com/artwork/rock-posters-2

Dan Stiles - Very Design oriented- you can definitely tell the posters are his design.
http://danstiles.com/posters-the-roots-ac-newman.html

A blog with tagged images of rock posters with links to other rock poster artists
http://www.changethethought.com/tag/rock-posters/

A huge archive of gigposters - not all screen printed, but posters all the same.
use the browse buttons on the top left side of the menu to browse through the posters:
http://www.gigposters.com/poster/19471_Radiohead.html

A nice site with classic and modern rock posters
http://www.dking-gallery.com/

http://swampco.com/

http://www.posterbomb.com/

http://www.posterscene.com/html_index.cfm?page=home

art critique in the classroom

After discussing the lack of input during in class critiques with several students, I began looking for short yet informative info that would maybe help students feel more confident in making comments during critique. There is nothing worse than putting your work up and getting zero comments. Is that a good or a bad? You never know. What is bad is that not getting any feedback means we miss out on chances to improve what doesn't work with our images. This is a school and we are all here to learn.

I beg you to shred me. Tear my work apart. I want the end result to be the best it can be. If no one says anything then...how am I to grow?

A short and to the point website with info on classroom critique:

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/dgoodwin/shared_resources/critique.html

also a really good book on critiquing. The Critique Handbook. I own the first edition. This is the second edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Critique-Handbook-Students-Sourcebook-Survival/dp/0205708110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272638706&sr=1-1
The Critique Handbook.

screen printing registration

I had a lot of problems with registration during my first print so I started doing some research. Basically, the best system I've come across makes use of cross hairs at the top, bottom, right, and left sides of the screen outside of the image area. The only issue I see with this is that it requires the use of an initially larger margin, maybe an extra inch all the way around. Tearing this extra inch off after printing. I am probably just going to hand draw them unless I can get a transparency printed that measures larger than my image size (11x17 or so). The cross hairs look like this:

Artist to look at.

I went to the site of these artist and found there work interesting and innovative. I liked especially two of the artist work Ann Hamilton and Tim Hawkinson. I liked how she only showed her mouth especially the one with the water flowing out it showed so much movement. I like the plastic disc that he showed in his work it to have you moving around the image.

The Moving Crew: Ideal X!

In the works, The Moving Crew (the world's largest art collective) is going to Croatia.
Check out our website:

Ideal X

and stay tuned for news.

I will be headed for Croatia as soon as final crits are over!