Blocks and Stones May Break My Bones

Just a quick update to redirect you. 1. I have a new Tumblr site where I'll be posting a lot more pictures, a lot less text, and a lot more often. I'm slowly making the move away from this bl...

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So... my last update left off with a promise of more results from my senior research project on Century Plates. Long story short- the results with the other two resurfacing methods were pretty te...

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(This post is going to focus heavily on technical aspects of lithography. You've been warned.) The plate on the press after roll-up In addition to the near constant visiting artists and e...

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Wow. What a(n almost) year it's been. Let me start from the beginning. After graduation in May, I had a month to re-coop, relax and prepare for what would prove to be an amazing and busy couple...

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 So, this happened. It's been more than a month and I'm still pretty stunned. Excited- elated even, but still stunned. Each year Tamarind takes eight students from all over the world to trai...

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Working on the limestone So apparently there's this thing called "March Madness".  Word on the street it has something to do with "sports". Both of these things are fairly foreign to me, bu...

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So round about the time of my last post I got an email from Michael Barnes inviting me and my fellow classmates to attend a small printmaking conference where he was lecturing in Las Vegas, NM....

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"Flying of the Bulls" by Jamie Kovach I think I mentioned in my last post about the collaborative nature of this new semester at Tamarind. Our first three collaborations rotate on a two week...

http://kelliehames.blogspot.com/2012/02/january-and-february-at-tamarind-or.html

Sorry. I can't help but make a Breaking II Electric Boogaloo reference whenever possible. A lot has happened since my last post. The year ended with a few more big projects, including an intro...

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This week has been one of those "Let's try every process under the sun" kind of weeks. Monday was egg albumen, Tuesday was negative diazo, Wednesday was Dolphin litho transfer paper, Thursday was...

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Why, hello again. For the last few months I've been trying to decide how and when to get back into updating this blog. Today, I feel, things have come full circle since my last post and it's time...

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After the MAPC conference and Michael Barnes's demonstration on asphaltum reduction lithography I was itching to try it out. As soon as I had all the materials and a base rolled out on the stone ...

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  As I alluded to in my last post, a few weeks ago a friend and I drove down to the Twin Cities to attend the three day Mid America Print Conference, put on by the Mid America Print Council ....

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As I continue work on a post about the Mid-America Print Conference I figure I'll do a quick entry on the Franconia Sculpture Garden first. This little park is located in Franconia, MN just alo...

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  In the last three and a half months I have: 1. Shown my work in my final BFA show; 2. Graduated college; 3. Moved into a new apartment; and 4. Gotten a full-time job (not in my field, but it...

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  Yeah, have I mentioned I'm still new to this blog thing? Sometimes it seems that things get too busy and then this blog just gets pushed to the back burner. However, as I sit here writing th...

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  Literally. The duck linocut is complete! Sorry for the lack of in-progress posts, but this past month has been very busy, and the next two months don't look to be any easier, with the BFA s...

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  So I had a very... interesting* last few days. I came up with my new image for my next linocut in the series and the first few colors went down without a hitch. My third color I started not...

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  This post compiles several months worth of learning while doing multiple color linocuts. These are the things I've screwed up and learned from. Before I begin I'll start with a few point...

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These last few weeks have been crazy! I mentioned a few post back that I had some exciting news to share, and here it is! Every semester the Hannaher Studio at the Plains Art Museum (one of,...

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Not a big post, but an important one... the dog linocut is done! Done! Finally! The last color was printed yesterday and thanks to about 30% cobalt drier it was torn down and editioned today. I e...

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Hello everyone! Sorry for such a long stretch of silence, but it's the holiday season- I'm sure you understand. :) I know in my last post I mentioned this post would be about my sculptural piece...

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Things have been crazy this semester! Between writing mock grants, creating a website from scratch, attending and evaluating artist talks, making a digital portfolio, and about nine million othe...

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So earlier this year I took it upon myself to try my hand at linoleum cuts again. I had done one previously for my intro to printmaking course and thoroughly enjoyed it- it was six colors. The o...

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This last weekend, October 3rd and 4th marked the sixth annual Studio Crawl brought about by the Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists group. Special guests this time around included Art Org , a group...

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