last 3 weeks before winter break

All editions are due DECEMBER 14th.

no exceptions.

now to the rest of the 2009-2010 school year:

project #1:

design for ART Ball project at the DMA.....

coastlines

installation date april 13th.

due monday dec 7th or tuesday dec 8th.

think about what you want to work with...large woodcut plate, tiny etchings piercing through...aluminum plates..large bendable?hmmmmm......

monoprints?

how to get the prints off the wall..

how to make a beautiful powerful statement

and still scream a message and be interactive.

remember we want to be the best...

the very very best.

look at prints about coastlines, boats, bathers, fishermen,sailors,immigrants..

tell a personal story.

more thought..more research..the more to work with.

artists to begin looking at: hundertwasser,red rooms DMA collection!

all ideas will be presented in the individual classes..voted on, reworked and then posted on the blog so that ALL students can vote.

the final plan is due to DMA tuesday dec 15th.

(so if you don't come up with an idea and an agreement..i will decide and if there is no real effort i will decline.)

project #2:

message in a bottle all ready scheduled to open may 6th, 2010 at the Trammell Crow. installation will be the week before and prints need to get mailed so APRIL 16th, 2010 is the due date.

we might do small etchings or small books.

small zinc plate or larger polymer and do book pages in tibetan for tibetan children.

we have san angelo state and brookhaven agreeing to be a part of the exchange so far.

project#3:

postcard exchange exhibition invitational to all magnet schools in the network?. due before you leave..measurement 4"x6"

put your name and school address,title, medium, age on the back.

print neatly.

now let's get with it!

show our community how excellent you guys are.....

thanksgiving greetings from the monks

Hello! Dear Ms. Eva and students, Heartiest Greeting to you, your family, and friends on this great occasion of Thanksgiving Holiday! Like a lucid dream, I can imagine how wonderful it is to get together and relax with your near and dear ones after all these months of daily chores and busy schedules. I understand you spent lots of energies saving lives, imparting knowledge, or supporting others’ wellbeing and happiness. Well, please accept my apology to you for my long silence not because of intense errand, but due to my own agitation and laziness. But, I assure you have been in my thoughts and prayers more often than you would imagine for you are very kind and gracious for me and many others sentient beings. Thanksgiving is the time to get together and thank kind persons, but I find no equivalent words that could express my gratitude to you. In other words, you mean so much to me and your kindness bestowed over me and others is wider than the Sky, deeper than the Ocean, and higher than the Mt Everest. Hence, let me use the same simple word “Thank You So Much” for all your Peace, Compassion, and Goodness. The kindness that you have been showing is highly appraised and deeply appreciated. Let’s continue our care and compassion for one another, and expand such virtue for others throughout our life. Together, we could enrich this world with abundance of Love, Compassion, Friendship, and Peace! Happy Thanksgiving! Thupten Tendhar

after the monks are gone...... printmaking continues

Dear Printmakers!

First of all thank you to all the students who actively participated in this years prayer flag exchange. The prints are exceptional this year and the monks where also a most wonderful group.

Also special thanks to The Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art.

We have prayer flags prints on paper in the Sky Gallery. Approximately 25 in total and should be on exhibition for the next two months.

http://www.crowcollection.org/

And to the Mystical Arts of Tibet Tour and the Drepung Monks.... we take our hats off! WOW!

http://www.mysticalartsoftibet.org/

Our monk group was the west group.. their names.. Geshe TSulak Gyatso, Tenzin Tashi, Lobsang Pajor,Yeshi Palden(yapa),Phuntsok Dawe and Geshe Wangden Tashi who said he would send us a traditional woodblock, and last but not least the spokesperson and monk Thupten Tendhar.

please visit the BTWPrint on facebook page for more.

now back to printmaking...

http://www.printmakers.info/index.php

http://www.printeresting.org/

these are two fabulous sites..great research place

(thanks to our alumni Krystal Read)

Now to the this 6 weeks... all students have individual projects that the are working on.

If you are a first time printmaking student you are required to do a reduction print. ( minimum of 4 colors plus white!)

We have a video on u-tube that really explains the process well. Please google reduction printmaking and the site will come up. This printmaker also has different videos of process for intaglio printmaking which is a four part series and takes about a half an hour in total to watch. I highly suggest you check these out on your own time.

Since we only have 2 more weeks till the end of this six weeks you will be graded on your progress on the prints you are individually working on, however full editions will be due before we leave on Christmas break.

Please check out these two websites... great printmakers from all over the world.

I will add them to our links also.

check out the new slide show....

Hope

While researching prayer flags I learned that different items, plants and animals have symbolic meanings in Buddhist culture. With the discovery of the lotus flower I discarded my previous idea involving pineapples, the symbol of hospitality that originated in the United States, and graduated into the Tibetan symbol of purity and spiritual unfoldment. The significance of the lotus comes from its stalks, which rise from muddy waters and blossom once above the surface. My print expresses simply, a person, weak and fallen, being lifted out of a cold, bleak place by a pure soul who has given a helping hand in a kind gesture of peace. The horizontal lines in the background reflect this peace and the lotus stalks spell 'Hope'. Unfortunately a lot of my lines were too thin and disappeared quickly under the thick ink. This was, for the most part, resolved in later prints but I prefer the look of the lines in this one even with the darker arm mistake.

~taylor b

katy wood

my prayer flag is more traditional with a snow lion in the foreground and the tibetan flag in the background.

Om Mani Padme Hum

Jennifer Ng

My inspiration for this was the traditional Tibetan prayer flags. I wanted to have the prayer flag still have the traditional elements of the traditional ones but make it more simple and to have a single image take the place of the Tibetan writing, focusing the viewer and prayer more on abstract scale, allowing for more room for interpretation.

Rachael Davis

The message I wanted to put forth with my prayer flag is "happiness is best when shared", a quote inspired by Chris McCandles' last written words. I chose to depict the quote figuratively and carved a self-portrait of me taking in everything in that society and nature share with me by using my five senses.