Ken’s Project Complete…Whew!

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Ken finished his project having completed 43 monoprints entitled Notes From the Edge of the World. He used stencils, stamps, and watercolors to compose these bold yet ethereal pieces. Ken also made a series of edition prints using etched copper plates and solar plates. They will be available for sale as single prints and as a portfolio suite of seven.

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Our wiping station where we spent hours perfecting tone and color for Ken’s edition prints!

 

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The picture above gives you an idea of how we make the editioned prints. The orange piece is the solar plate, which is etched using UV rays from our lovely new solar plate box rather then the sun (which allows us to make plates even on the snowiest of Steamboat days!)

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Close-up of the etched solar plate

 

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The above two images are the drawings on vellum that Ken made using black ink. They are the templates for the solar plates; when we put the image over the plate in the UV box, it burns away the areas that are black. Then we can make them any color by wiping ink into the plate.

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Prints everywhere!

 

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Sue being adorable and enjoying the pancakes Ken made us the morning of his signing!

 

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Please contact the shop if you would like any more info on Ken Buhler’s project and prints!

We are also happy to announce that our website is FINALLY up and running! We are so happy to have everything up for everyone to see. Please take a moment to peruse the website if you haven’t already! We have all of our artist projects up from this year so far as well as selections from the Oehme Graphic’s collection.

Melissa Meyer up next!