Tea towels now for sale on my etsy store!

I am excited to announce that I have my hand printed woodcut tea towels on my etsy store. They are 100% cotton flour sack tea towels hand printed with woodcut patterns for just $15 each.

Haberkorn.etsy.com

Green border

Orange floral

Brown swirl

Green border with rick rack trim

Light blue whisks

Please stop by my store to order a tea towel!

Wine Crate Studio Shelving

Artists are always repurposing things as an economical and stylish way to furnish their studios.  A favorite storage solution that I use in my studio are wooden wine crates.  

The first ones I got were from a classmate in college that worked in the wine cellar of an expensive steakhouse in Tampa.  He would bring them in to the art department for anyone that wanted them.  I grabbed several of them which I still use to store wood blocks, and on the wall for shelving.  

My husband and I were in our local liquor store recently where I saw a few crates stacked by the register.  I picked one out for a mere $3, and immediately turned it into much needed shelving for my cans of printing ink.

My new wine crate - I love the mermaid on the side 

I measured and cut 1" square stock for supports, and cut some scraps of wood for the shelves.  The cans of ink fit perfectly!

Do you have a favorite, creative way of repurposing things for use in your studio?  Tell me about how you organize your space.

Collagraph Class Number Three

The collagraph class I'm teaching at the League is well under way.  It is fun to see what everyone worked on during the week in between, and how their prints turned out.

All of the prints pinned up 

Simone's relief rolled collagraph - we all thought it looked like an Oprah tree

Two versions of Sabyl's print

Sabyl's plate on the left, and the print pulled from it on the right

Mark silk-screened the orange ropes on the paper before printing the dark rope shape over it. He made the collagraph plate for this image by silk-screening gel medium on to mat board, and sprinkling carborundum into it to make a photo-collagraph.  After it dried, the plate was sealed, and then printed.  

Victoria's nests.  Her plates were made with raffia and string glued down to mat board   

The print on the left, pulled from the plate on the right

Collagraph Class Number Two

Last night was the second session of my collagraph class at the League.  Some students came in ready to work, and others were still building their plates.  Here are some photos of the first prints they pulled.

Mark's first collagraph print

Herb's figure collagraph

This cute little collagraph is printed from buttons!  The right one was printed first, then without cleaning the plate, yellow was rolled with a brayer over it and printed again for the print on the left

Sabyl's sampler plate

The print from Sabyl's plate

A "ghost" print of Sabyl's plate.  It is simply reprinted without reapplying more ink.  The plate still has residual "ghost" ink.  Sometimes the ghosts look better than the first print pulled

Two slight variations of the same print

Collagraph Class at the league

On Thursday last week I started teaching a collagraph class at the Art Students League of Denver.  No matter which class I'm teaching, most of the first night is spent with my introductory lecture and demonstration.  It isn't until the second class that the students get going on their own projects.


Collagraph (glue writing) printmaking is primarily an additive process used to make collaged printing plates. Materials are glued or painted on a plate that can be printed as an intaglio plate, or rolled with a brayer and printed in relief, or printed in combination with each other.

Some of my collagraph plate demonstrations

Left; The collaged plate  Right; the print pulled from it.  Ink is wiped into the recesses(intaglio wipe), and the surface is wiped clean.  Smoother surfaces do not hold ink as well as textured surfaces.

Left; The plate  Right; The print that was first intaglio wiped, and then surface rolled with a blue ink on top

Two prints pulled form the same plate. The right print was surface rolled with a light blue ink over a dark ink

I will post more photos as the class prints their own projects.  Tomorrow will be the next session.

Free Printmaking Demo this Saturday!

I will be back at the Foothills Art Center this Saturday, February 13th with Jennifer Ghormley for a free printmaking demonstration. Drop in between 11am - 2pm and see how I make woodcuts!  

"Have you ever wondered how Rembrandt created his famous etchings? Learn how a fine art print is created using a printing press. Instructors Jennifer Ghormley and Theresa Haberkorn will demonstrate various techniques including woodblock, monotype and intaglio printing. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with the techniques."

Save the date also for my Introduction to Woodcut Workshop at the Foothills Art Center, February 27 11am - 3pm  http://www.foothillsartcenter.org/classes/adultprograms/classes.php

Stamped With Love Photos

On Saturday morning I raced back from Vail after visiting friends to teach a workshop on how to print your own Valentine's Day cards.  I usually don't teach kids, and was surprised that mostly kids came to print cards.  I luckily had just enough printing activities that would be safe for kids- no sharp carving tools! Here are a few pics of the workshop.

Valentine Robots

Printing Madness

A parent carved this linoleum block

The card is on the left, and the styrofoam printing plate is on the right