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The annual Print Sale is coming up fast at the Studio Art printmaking department at Capilano University. As always it will feature intaglio, relief, silk screen and digital prints created by students, Art Institute members and faculty in the Studio Art program. If you live in the Vancouver area, please come and support the students and get some reasonably priced original artworks for some lucky people on your gift list, including yourself!
Here are directions to Capilano University in North Vancouver. Note also the campus and parking maps.
So the studio is buzzing with everyone doing last printing, wrapping and labelling for this event!
I too have had had a couple of very full days of printing. Yesterday at home I printed more than half of my Christmas cards plus made a start on a small gift print. Today, at the studio, I put in a full day of printing several editions which I’ve been working on this fall. I’m exhausted yet happy to have completed these after a few months of work. Next week I’ll be trimming, signing and documenting these editions. I hope to show them here soon, so watch this space!
November 29, 2012 in Being an Artist, Digital printmaking, Printmaking by Marja-Leena
I’m waiting and watching agog. I had an exhausting print day myself today. I got lots done, which means that my knees are completely shot for the day! Happily collapsed. Looking forward to seeing yours, though.
Wish I could attend. Luckily we do have craft fairs and art fairs galore here during the holiday season.
Olga, “Happily collapsed”, yes, my knees were shot too. Thanks, I look forward to sharing them when I have some spare moments in this busy time of year.
Hattie, it’s that time of year with many craft fairs everywhere. There’s even a German Christmas Market downtown for several weeks that we never seem to find the time (and money!) to visit. It’s a pleasure to buy hand made work by artists and artisans over anything mass produced, isn’t it?
I’ll be watching! Take care of those knees. I’m having a spot of trouble with my right knee at the moment and I’m hoping it doesn’t prevent me from visiting some of the local craft fairs.
Rouchswalwe, oh dear, take care of yours and have fun at the fairs.
I had taken copious notes for getting to Capilano University, being attracted by the address and wondering whether I
could expect to encounter groups of half frozen sopranos mutedly singing Dido’s Lament on street corners, the weather giving them extra cause for lamentations. I’d been keen to ensure I didn’t end up at Golden Ears Provincial Park because of the idiomatic confusion the name engenders: in Britain someone with a “tin ear” is one who lacks a sense of pitch, cannot hold a tune. I couldn’t decide whether golden ears were an asset (able to pick humming bird flutters at one mile or – if you prefer – three versts) or an even more depressing defect (unable to form multi-syllable words). Although the map makes it quite clear that if I found myself in Squamish I’d have gone far too far, I had to admit there were temptations: the town name only requires the addition of the letter e to turn it into an evocative – almost onomatopeic (your spelling not mine) – adjective that is under-used in Britain at least, though perhaps the town councillors at your end wouldn’t appreciate the change.
Having done all this and packed snow-shoes and a wet suit I found to my dismay that the event is on December 5 when I shall be lunching with Joe né Plutarch at you-know-where. Now there’s irony for you.
RR, glad to hear you were tempted to travel to this side of the world in spite of our rain (surely familiar to all Brits) and snow on the mountains (maybe less familiar). Sounds like you enjoyed the virtual kind, including being intrigued by the place names around here. Sorry you can’t be here tomorrow, but if you and the Mrs. ever want to come, say in spring, we’ll happily show you around the many strangely named spots around here. And please give our greetings to Joe at, yes I-know-where.