Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Printmaking comes to Long Branch NJ!
One of the turning points in the history of art, from art being the domain of the elite to art being available to the masses was when the printing press was invented and the common man could afford a copy of a work of art that an artist had duplicated many times in a printing press.
Yesterday, myself and a few brave volunteers from the The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts (20 Third Avenue, Long Branch, NJ) transfered the entire contents of Ocean County College’s long defunct printmaking department to the SICA building. Classes will be offered soon!
We filled a 20ft moving truck with things (A litho press is mighty heavy btw!) and used our vehicles for the remainder, here’s one of the intaglio presses sticking out of my car at the SICA.
and here’s an intaglio print I made back in the day, at Mississippi University in Columbus MS, hmm almost 20 years ago! It will be fun to see what I can now! Thank you Thomas Nawrocki – best art prof ever!
"Egg magazine #1" one of a kind color proof intaglio etching by Darren Daz Cox
and here’s some of the details of a hand tinted (with watercolor and florescent tempera paint) on another intaglio print from the last time I had the pleasure of being in a printmaking dept which was at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale!
"Sha Na Na, Star Trek and Sunsets are Awesome, and so are you!" Intaglio print by Darren Daz Cox
Originally posted 2008-06-01 08:33:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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June 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I always wanted to learn how to do printmaking. Thre just isn’t enough day in my time!
Some day maybe. That is really cool Daz!
June 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
thanks Wendi! printmaking is really fun, hand tinting is a total pleasure as water based paints don’t stick to the oil based ink that stands up on the paper, so coloring between the lines is totally easy and you can get total details without straining your eyes!