Click on the image for a larger version - with a map of the items.
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Combining Intaglio and Relief Printmaking
Daniel Smith Inc, Seattle and Bellevue stores - Sundays, October 14 and 28, 2007
For an unusual project--a print that's to become a label for his Mini Halfwood Treasure chest--Bill printed a woodcut with watercolor and then with an etched and engraved copper plate.
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7th Seattle Print Fair
January 2007 January 13-14, 2007 at the Seattle Center Pavilion.
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Bill printed 40 commemorative notecard-sized prints to give away to interested visitors at the Seattle Print Fair. - Photo by Jim Ball.
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Plein Air Printmaking
Daniel Smith Inc. Seattle Store
2006
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Bill on the trail, Mini Halfwood Press on his back. Photo by Trixie
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Click to review PDF version of Plein Air Printmaking at Daniel Smith, Inc.
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Printmaking Secrets
May 13, 2006 demo at Daniel Smith Inc.'s Seattle Store.
Secrets was the idea behind Bill's demonstration this time. He solicited questions on the Web and then chose those he'd focus on.
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Photo by an anonymous attendee.
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It turned out to be making collagraphs using carborundum, first, and second, using paint bar (oil paint in stick form) for printing copper plate etchings.
In the picture he's holding up the first proof from the morning session. He used both his Mariner Halfwood Press and his Mini Halfwood press in these sessions.
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Grandpa: Visiting Artist
Friday, March 31, 2006
Meridian Park School - Ms. Jenks' 2nd Grade
See demo little book in PDF (Acrobat) format: Click!
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Right, student reads the text on a print Bill printed. Left, the butterfly drawing , made into an etching, by Matilda. - Photo by Billie Bryan.
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"Grandpa Bill" showed how he prints etchings. He used the class' current study unit (insects) and showed the students that printing by hand was once the way in which scientific topics were illustrated.
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Bill printed 50 commemorative postcard-sized prints (far right) to give away to interested visitors at the Seattle Print Fair--and free postcards, too. - Photo by Lynda Ritchie.
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Print Fair Commemorative
6th Seattle Print Fair
Saturday & Sunday, January 14-15, 2006 at the Seattle Center Pavilion
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Postcard-sized print for 2006 fair.
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Artist's Stamps
How an etcher does it
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There are many ways to make your own non-governmental, collectible stamps, and in this demo showed how a printmaker does it using PnP Blue laser print etching and other basic etching techniques on little copper plates. Bill printed on his Mini Halfwood Press. Photo by Tom Kughler.
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Bill talking to visitors at the November 12, '05 demonstration at the Daniel Smith Inc. Seattle Store
See Artists Stamps demo in 12-step in PDF (Acrobat) format: Click!
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Dry Point Printmaking
Self-portraits and guests' plates printed, November 5, 2005, at Utrecht's Seattle Capitol Hill store
See his MiniBook online from this demonstration, Dry Point Printmaking 12-step in PDF (Acrobat) format: Click!
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Bill showed visitors how he makes dry point plates using both the needle and an electric engraving tool. He recommends using only a hand-wiping technique, skipping the usual method of using tarlatan. Click here for YouTube version.
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Bill has made a tiny hotplate out of a travel-sized hand iron mounted upside down (hot side up) in a box. You see him wiping a dry point plate for visitors.
- Photo by Chris Rollins.
For YouTube 1-minute version, click on the image at left.
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Laser Print Etching - 2
Using Press 'N Peel for metal etching
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Laser print etching means transferring a laser print to a metal plate and etching it in. In this documentation you see Bill making a plate to use demonstrating etching, engraving and drypoint that he used for Small is Beautiful (right). He created three stamp-sized blanks. With his laser printer he printed a negative image of artist's stamp blanks on the dull side of "Print 'N Peel" film, also known as PnP Blue.
See Laser Print Etching - 2 12-step in PDF (Acrobat) format. Click!
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Close-up of peeling the Press 'N Peel Blue film from the copper plate, which is then etched in Ferric Chloride.
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Small Is Beautiful
Intaglio for Everyone
He came with a plate he'd prepared with a black background and spaces to show three kinds of intaglio platemaking, so people saw how etching, drypoint and engraving differed. Then he printed (far right).
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 Bill at Bellevue's Daniel Smith Inc. with his small plates and his Mini Halfwood Press.
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See Small is Beautiful 12-step in PDF (Acrobat) format. Click!
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Laser Print Etching
Etchings from your laser printer images
August 6th, 2005, Daniel Smith Inc. Seattle Store. Click below to see the 12-step method, Laser Print Etching 12-step in PDF (Acrobat) format. Click!
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Your black and white laser prints could be etchings with this method. You print on photo paper, transfer it to a metal plate with a hot iron, soak and then rub off the paper and etch the image into the metal with ferric chloride. This is a way to use your computer as part of making plates for traditional prints.
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Bill used an electric iron to fuse the aquatint he likes to include with his laser transfer image to get tones in his images.
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ChineColle
Making Artist Trading Cards
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Glimpses of Artist Trading Card Meetings
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"They're called meet-ups and about a dozen or more people would meet in teh back of art supply stores, crafts shops and coffee shops all up and down the I-5 corridor and the east side. People brought their card collections, their friends, their kids and I brought my Mini Halfwood and printed cards on the spot. " - BR
Photo by Pam Gunn.
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Sidewalk Art Fair
Uptown Stroll - Queen Anne
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"The goofy hat was not my idea! It was a fair thought up by the local neiighborhood organizers. Artists were featured in action on a Saturday. I printed postcards and artists' stamps." -BR
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Printmaking as Performance Art
Artist Trust Auction - February 2005
The Artist Trust Auction is an annual affair at which Bill introduced printmaking is as a performance art as well as a visual art. He set up his Mini Halfwood Press at the pre-auction party and was billed as one of the "Performers".
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Little Yogi, Bill's trading card - 3 1/2 X 2 1/2 in. He also used a hot soldering tool to transfer color laser printed images over the etching ink when it was dry.
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Above, Bill walks a visitor through the heat transfer process of using color laser images to embellish monoprints.
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First Public Showing
2004 - Printmaking at a fair
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At right, at the Guemes Island Art Celebration produced by Lane Parks
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