Printmaking Treasuries

Here are a few more:







Enjoy!

Hello, my name is Amie R...

... and I'm addicted to Etsy Treasuries and Tumblr. Oh dear.

Check out my Treasuries on Etsy, and my new Tumblr blog, where I post mostly interesting finds from Etsy (not surprisingly, many printmakers and specifically Printsy members).

Here's my most recent Treasury:



Sigh. Like I don't have better things to do with my time. Like sleep (read: I have a 7 1/2 month old daughter that has decided she doesn't like to stay asleep when we finally get her there... so why am I wasting time on the internet when she is asleep? Dunno. Must be insane).

Treasured! "Once Around The Block"

Thanks to kellyjcallahan for featuring me and a heap of other Printsy members on their treasury:


Also featured are:

meganaker
crscheffe
studioAK
YonderPrints
starkeyart
drenculture
GinaD
wingedlion
BirdNerd
RioSalidaArt
hawaiialoha

Printsy Blog

Pink Skies in the Morning by Marian Johansen-Ellis

OK, I just had to share this interview: Mariann Johansen-Ellis is a delightful and talented printmaker who works in Spain and Singapore, in etching and linocut. She does these whimsical, imaginative prints using the method of à la poupée to colour her intricate etchings, and, an artist after my own heart, she also does incredibly detailed reduction linocuts.

The Regatta by Mariann Johansen-Ellis

Please read her interview on the Printsy blog here.

Also, here are a couple of exceptionally instructive videos that Mariann has uploaded to YouTube; have a watch:

On Reduction Linocut



(I want her roller!! That would make roll up so much less tedious!!!)

On Etching



Mariann says that she enjoys teaching (I understand how she feels!), and you can tell from her videos that she's very methodical about her process. I suspect she'd make a great teacher.

Blogging elsewhere

So you've noticed that I've been silent for a while. Again, mostly work related, and free time has been taken up with other stuff, being summer and all. And active work with the Federation, too (check out the new website, which is still a bit of a work in progress). But I have been doing some blogging elsewhere: tune into the Printsy blog on Monday, July 7 for my interview with Sarah Spooner & Jon Gregory of Lapwing Printworks. I've also been helping with a little blog admin on that site - anyone who's not so comfortable with blogging, I've been posting their interviews for them. That takes a surprising amount of fiddling, because I like to try to get the image links from their original locations on Flickr or other website, rather than re-saving the file & loading through Blogger. I also prefer to provide appropriate references (e.g. titles and alternates directing to the original site), to increase traffic back to that person, rather than looping in on Google's image bank (for those of you who don't blog, those last bits were likely a complete haze of nonsense).

Oh yeah. And I bought a press. Details to follow!

Treasured Again!

Wow! I got on someone else's treasury again!

Thanks craftyhag! Other Etsy stores featured in this treasury are:

PamelaAngus - glass art
RedMarionette - whimsical and vintage-inspired toys & accessories
boogiebead - bead work
auntifranni - embroidery
withremote - graphics & screen printing
lisahammer - fused glass jewelry
mmcullen - paintings, prints & whatnot
iWunder - hand knit items & hand dyed yarns
squidglass - fused glass jewelry
ArtOfSkulls - handcrafted "Day of the Dead" skulls

Treasured!

One of my prints is featured on a Treasury in Etsy that made it onto the Etsy front page!

Here are the other artists who were listed (in case you come late to this post and the Treasury is no longer there) - please check them out, they're worth the e-trip:

WingedLion (Natalia Moroz)
magicjelly (Karena Colquhoun)
CrumpArt
edamamepress (Amanda Gordon Miller)
mezzotint (Imogen Duthie)
anniebissett (Annie Bissett)
minouette
faceplantwasted
mLee (Marissa L. Swinghammer)
ellenshipley (Ellen Shipley)
dakokichialb

Thanks Julie!