Member News-Minga Opazo

Member News- Minga Opazo

Minga has this installation at Community Memorial Hospital's Cancer Center.

Opening night of Inkling 2015

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Nine Types of Printmaking

Our work incorporates a lot of these techniques.

Come to our exhibition, 
opening on the 6th of November and find out which ones we use the most!

Woodcut

The oldest printmaking technique, woodcut involves carving an 

image into a wooden surface, which is then inked and printed

leaving the carved-out image in negative, 

as well as occasional traces of the wood’s grain.

Linocut

A more modern analog to woodcut, 
linocuts are made using linoleum; 
the softness of the material allows for cleaner, freer, and more fluid lines.

Etching

To create an etching, artists incise (“draw”) 

a composition onto a wax-coated metal plate, 

then soak the entire plate in acid. 

The acid corrodes the exposed lines and leaves the wax intact, 

so that when the plate is inked and pressed, 

the paper absorbs the image in reverse. 

Rembrandt is one of the original masters of this technique.

Engraving

A less forgiving version of etching (mastered by Dürer), 

in this process artists incise their image directly

 onto a metal plate, which is then inked and printed.

Monotype

Unlike most other printmaking techniques, 

this process produces unique editions. 

Artists draw, paint, or otherwise manipulate ink or paint 

to create a composition on a smooth surface, 

which is then produced in reverse when applied to a ground support.

Collograph

a printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood). The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, 
meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing.

The plate can be intaglio-inked, inked with a roller or paintbrush, or some combination.

Ink or pigment is applied to the resulting collage, and the board is used to print onto 
paper or another material using either a printing press or various hand tools. 
The resulting print is termed a collagraph. Substances such as carborundum, 
acrylic texture mediums, sandpapers, textiles, bubble wrap, string or other fibers, 
cut card, leaves and grass can all be used in creating the collagraph plate. 
In some instances, leaves can be used as a source of pigment by rubbing them onto the 
surface of the plate.

Different tonal effects and vibrant colors can be achieved with the technique due to the 
depth of relief and differential inking that results from the collagraph plate's 
highly textured surface. 

Collagraphy is a very open printmaking method. Ink may be applied to the upper 
surfaces of the plate with a brayer for a relief print, or ink may be applied to the 
entire board and then removed from the upper surfaces but remain in the spaces 
between objects, resulting in an intaglio print. 
A combination of both intaglio and relief methods may also be employed. 
A printing press may or may not be used.

Screen Print

One of the most ubiquitous printmaking techniques today,

 screen printing starts with an ink-blocking stencil applied to a screen. 

When ink is wiped across the screen, it selectively passes through, 

transferring the image to the ground. 

Look no further than Andy Warhol for iconic examples of the medium.

Transfer

Transfer is a catch-all term for processes of transmitting images 

from one surface to another, 

whether by rubbing, tracing, pressing, or any other manual technique. 

Outside of the “fine art” context, 

examples of the technique include gravestone rubbings and carbon copies.

Focus On The Masters Event with The Inkspots!

Focus on the Masters kicks off its 2015-16

 Artist Spotlight season on Nov. 7

1 fish, 2 fish, 3 fish by Judy Gibbs

Focus on the Masters kicks off its 2015-16 Artist Spotlight season on Nov. 7 in the Screening Room of Brooks Institute in Ventura.  The Spotlight interview will feature the inkspots.  Founder Virginia Furmanski will be joined by Bay Hallowell and Inés Monguió in a panel discussion led by Dr. Judy Larson.   The inkspots were formed in 2007 by Virginia who explains that the group is greater than the sum of its parts.  “We take classes together.  We learn new techniques.”

Four Ventura artists interested in printmaking formed the original inkspots group in 2007 by pooling their resources and creating a printmaking studio at the Sea Breeze Gallery in Ventura.  The inkspots of San Buenaventura are a group of artists dedicated to creating original prints using a variety of techniques including etching, collagraph, linocut, monoprint, monotype, woodblock, and digital manipulation.

Spotlight interviews are free to FOTM Members, $10 for general public, $5 students and seniors.

Immediately following the interview guests will gather at 643 A Project Space for the AfterGLOW Fundraising Event.  Paid reservations are required for the AfterGLOW: $25 for FOTM members and $35 for non-members.   An exhibit of works by inkspots artists will run from November 6 through December 19 at 643 A Project Space.

Tickets for both the panel discussion and the AfterGLOW are available online at:  www.FocusOnTheMasters.com or by calling 653.2501.

Also during the First Friday ArtWalk  on Nov.6  the inkspots will have an opening reception from  5:00—8:00 p.m. 643 A Project Space, 643 N. Ventura Ave.

A free drawing for the inkspots 2015 Folio will take place at the 

Opening Reception at 7:00 p.m.

Announcement: Member News

Announcement:

Inkspot Members

 Rosemarie Gebhart 

and 

Monica Wiesblott

have been juried into the 

California Society of Printmakers

Colleen Kelly in Print

Colleen M Kelly: "Dressed"

Like paper dolls from the latter days of Mad Men, altered by a presence of physical graffiti, the monotypes with chine collé in Colleen M. Kelly's disarming series Naked Under Her Clothes are subversive and subtle, sexy but not sexual, traditional and unconventional, subliminal and right there on the surface. What appear to be expressive nudes rendered in a language of gestural, eccentric line drawing, draped in transparent or translucent retro fashions, is in fact nearly the opposite. The nudes did come first -- but in these prints, they exist on top of the clothes, hovering over the garments even as they occupy them. This paradoxical and slightly hallucinatory format is both the literal result of the chine collé print studio process that produced them, and the conceptual consequence of the political circumstances that inspired them -- plus a healthy dose of serendipity and resourcefulness in creative problem-solving.


In the case of Naked Under Her Clothes, the context of creation and the particulars of process are even more salient than usual to the meaning of the work -- integral in fact. She had been working for some time on these charming, slightly eerie nude studies, in the vein of Picasso's expressive single-line Vollard Suite etchings or even the whimsical near-abstraction of John Lennon's own drawings. At a certain point, Kelly was unexpectedly confronted with the need to comply with a nudity ban at the county art gallery in Santa Barbara where she was planning to exhibit them. Naked Under Her Clothes thus came to represent a response to this outrage, tapping into her deep and enduring feminist roots along with her sense of irony and humor. And all of this is contained not only in the visual language of her images, but in the serendipitous method by which she was able to construct them.

Vintage dress-making patterns were, oddly enough, quite plentiful in the print shop where she works. They were commonly salvaged for the tissue paper, while the envelopes printed with quirky and colorful sketches of the clothes were discarded. The plate sizes of Kelly's nudes is generally small, under six inches, and it turned out that the models on those envelopes were about the same size as her figures. The idea took hold rather quickly, and Kelly began "dressing" her figures accordingly. But what began as a political workaround soon took on unique formal imperatives and an inner life of its own. Although the "dressed" figures constitute a self-contained series, Kelly often chooses to show them in pairs or otherwise matched up with the original nudes in their birthday suits. This generates among other insights, the realization that the same anatomical armature is capable of telling wildly different stories depending on what they are wearing; and furthermore, one can see the same nude wearing different outfits and yet barely recognize her even when it's pointed out -- just like in real-life fashion.

On most of Kelly's prints, the chine colle᷇ "escapes the matrix" -- a term with a wonderful semiotic expansiveness simply indicating that the applied image sits beyond the frame created by the edges of the etched plate. Cheeky gingham frocks, crisp trouser pleats, sweeping chiffon ballgowns, flowing scarves, stockinged legs and elegantly shod feet unfurl over the threshold. Sometimes arms and legs are all that appear from the pattern, leaving the nude undressed save for boots or a charming hat like in that old Randy Newman song. The visual effect is assertive and eccentric, providing the image with a sense of movement and narrative emotionality. In a sense it's really another kind of matrix altogether that they are escaping -- the frame of civic dominion, conservatism, and body shaming that had threatened to trap them in a quagmire of misunderstanding.

Naked Under Her Clothes opens Saturday, June 27, 6-9pm, at 
Gallery 825in West Hollywood, and continues through July 24.

See the whole article and additional images here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/colleen-m-kelly-escaping-_b_7607438.html

Member New-Beverly Decker

Inkspot Member Beverly Decker's
Book art , Paris,  With the thought of Peace, 

accepted for
VITAL, the annual tri-county juried exhibition 

at the Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art
May 21-June 20, 2015
Opening Reception & Awards on Thursday, May 21, 4-6 p.m.

SB Tennis Club Opening Reception for The Inkspots

The following are images graciously provided by Asandra from the opening reception for the Inkspots at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club, curated by Susan Tibbles:

Artist Rosemarie Gebhart

Artist Karen Schroeder

Artists Christina Altfeld, Asandra and Leslie Plimpton

Arts Fund Discussion- Santa Barbara

Hello Santa Barbara Art Lovers!

Work from Inkspots Members Inés Monguio & Karen Schroeder
are included in this discussion and exhibition

6 -7pm on Friday Feb. 13th. Free.

We are hosting an Artist Panel Discussion with the Santa Barbara Printmakers who are featured in our current exhibition "Best Impressions." This Q & A is a great way to learn about this unique artistic medium. Join us from 6 -7pm on Friday Feb. 13th.

Free. Doors open at 5pm.

The Arts Fund | 205-C Santa Barbara Street | Santa Barbara, CA. | 805 965-7321 | Wed. - Sat. noon - 5pm. Sun. 11 - 5pm.

New exhibitions for the New Year

 Inkspots members are in the "Best Impressions" 

exhibition at the Arts Fund in the Funk Zone of Santa Barbara.

 This exhibition is featuring the award winning pieces from the 

Santa Barbara Printmakers

Also opening this Friday at Michael Kate, The Abstract 10

will hold for a Panel Discussion with the Artists (moderated by Ted Mills) 

at 6 PM at Michael/Kate.

And finally several Inkspot members are included in:

IMPRESSIONS: Original Prints from Ventura County Print Studios

Curated by Linda Taylor, owner of The Spotted Dog Studio, Ojai, CA

January 9 - February 18, 2015

The Atrium Gallery

Ventura County Government Center

800 Victoria Avenue

Ventura, CA

Opening Reception - Friday, January 23 from 5 to 7:30 PM

Press- Realty ONE Group Summit teams up with local artists, the Inkspots

In honor of supporting neighborhood businesses and vendors, Realty ONE Group Summit has partnered with a local group of artists, The Inkspots, by offering a gallery-type display of the group’s work.
Realty ONE Group Summit is the fourth franchise location of a thriving company that is consistently on Inc. 500’s fastest growing companies in America. With more than 5,000 agents nationally, Realty ONE Group continues to attract agents with its innovative technology and compensation structure.
Established in 2006, The Inkspots of San Buenaventura brings area artists together to collaborate, explore and create works of fine art and printmaking. The displayed work includes colorful prints, collages and etchings.
The Inkspots’ work will be displayed through March 31 at the office of Realty ONE Group Summit. The office is in Downtown Ventura at 940 E. Santa Clara St., Ste 100. The public is invited to visit the office and peruse the artwork, completely free of charge, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All of the art is available for purchase as well. Call 978-5764 for information.

Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2014/mar/17/realty-one-group-summit-teams-local-artists-inkspo/#ixzz2wQSSJtcw
- vcstar.com 

Visit Us

Every Saturday this month we have an open studio!

1-4pm the whole month of November
and the first Saturday of December

We will be at the studio hosting an open house

Come see our latest exhibition

photo by Bay Hallowell



Monica Wiesblott's work featured

Monica Wiesblott's figure work is featured on the event card for the upcoming Femininity show that will be presented by the Montecito Frame and Gallery.

This is an open call for entries and all are encouraged to submit work.
Congrats Monica!