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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #6

Here is the last installment of my video series on working with Plywerk Bamboo panels:

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Supplies used in the video:

Surflon Starter Kit, Size 2, maximum hanging weight 30lb. (14kg), color Bright, Surflon Starter Kit (Enough hardware to hang 100 frames)

100 1-1/16″ Triangle Picture Hangers with Screws (Enough hardware to hang 50 frames)*

Sakura 30061 3-Piece Pigma Micron Blister Card Ink Pen Set, Black*

Waxman 4215495N 1/2-Inch Heavy Duty Bumper, Clear, Square*

If you have any questions regarding these materials or the tools, please post in the comments below.

Again, thanks for looking!

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #6.

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #5

In the fifth segment of Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels I cover the simple, but important step of putting even pressure on the entire print surface and allowing time for the adhesive to set. Then I show the type of hardware I use to hang the panels on a gallery wall.

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Clean Gallery Wall Installation

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #4

In the fourth part of Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels I get show you how to trim and finish the edges of the print to be flush with edge of the panel. The edge finishing step is also a fall back if you should somehow slightly damage the cut edge of the print; it is an aesthetic choice… and a way to correct small mistakes. Bonus!

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Click To Enlarge: Botanica Obscura Print On Plywerk Panel In A Client’s House

This is a very delicate step, so slow and steady is the mantra. Check it out:

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #3

In this installment of Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels I center on a really touchy part of the process: the mounting of the print on the panel. Yes, this is the step where you have to be extra careful… in fact, if you aren’t focused, you may find yourself with a, uh, “poorly mated” print/panel that won’t be leaving your studio. Don’t ask me how I came about this knowledge… easy on the coffee, turn off the phone, and breath deeply.

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Free Botanica Obscura PDF, See The Bottom Of The Post!

Ok! Put down that coffee, take a couple of deep breaths, and onward to the mating process:

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #2

In this installment of my How To: videos, I cover working with the photographic print before mounting it to a Plywerk bamboo panel. I’ll talk about a tip I learned from Brooks Jensen of LensWork Magazine, I’ll cover getting the print cut accurately at 90 degrees even if your printer doesn’t print the image parallel to the edge of the paper, and I’ll show you how to lay out marks on the back of the print that will help in the mounting of the print to the panel.

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Check out How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #2:

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How To: Working With Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels Part #1

I really like the aesthetic of my Botanica Obscura prints when they are mounted on Plywerk Bamboo Art Panels. However, while the mounting process isn’t exactly difficult, I have some very important pointers that will make working with the panels go much more easily.

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Working With Plywerk #1: A Botanica Obscura Print Mounted On A Plywerk Bamboo Panel

So, I decided to do a short (!) video on my process, which ended up being so long that I broke it up into six parts. I will be posting these how-to videos over the next week. I’ll also list tools and materials that I mention in the videos in the corresponding blogs posts. Here is the first installment:

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Anchor Arts Gallery Auction — Success!

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Anchor Arts Gallery Auction

As I mentioned in my last post, I had donated a Plywerk-Mounted print from the Botanica Obscura project to the Anchor Arts Gallery Auction. And it sold! Glad to help out the small galleries. I have a couple shows planned, so maybe I’ll apply there. The event was well attended and I met a  few cool people… especially Mic the bartender. Good guy (and husband of the Gallery President).

 

Anchor Arts Gallery Auction

Anchor Arts Gallery Auction

 

History Of Anchor Arts:

Anchor was originally founded December 5th, 2008 by artist Jean Behnke, the project grew and developed a series of connections within the community. With the desire to return to her own studio, Anchor was passed on to a group of supportive, open-minded artists in Fall 2011. In association with Shunpike, Anchor Art Space is able to seek funding as a non-profit organization.

Anchor Art Space pursues quality exhibitions, events and community-based educational projects to a growing local and regional audience.

 

Anchor Arts Gallery Auction.

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Last Chance: Support The North Puget Cancer Center

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If you are interested in one of my 16″ Botanica Obscura Plywerk Mounted prints and want to help the North Puget Cancer Center, you only have until December 1st! Read on and take a look at the video:

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Online Store Product Videos

 

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Launching the store has been exciting (and a lot of work!). And I realized that there is nothing like some video to make clearer what exactly is offered in the store. So, here we go, online store product videos! First is a down and dirty video about the free PDF Folio and the Print Folio (the Print Folio has an introductory sale price until January 1st, 2013). You will probably want to click on the gear icon in the lower right corner of the YouTube window and select one of the HD versions:

 

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Next is a the video showing the Plywerk-mounted images and explaining the unmounted versions. You can get any of the nine Botanica Obscura images mounted either way:

 

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Thanks again for looking. Please share these links around, and if you recommend this on Facebook, I’ll buy you a beer the next time I see you! (I’ve only been taken up on this once so far… c’mon, free beer!!)

Online store product videos.

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Online Store Open!

 

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I’m happy to announce that my online store is open! Please take a look around. I have four items in different configurations available. These are all items related to the Botanica Obscura series of images.

The first is a free (freeeeeee!) sixteen page interactive PDF. Download it, download it now! Here’s the catch: you must use Adobe Reader for the interactivity to function. Sorry, technical limitation.

Here’s a nice little handy link to the PDF. And here is the first page:

 

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Next up is the Botanica Obscura Print Folio. This I’m super excited about—I had a lot of fun making these, and I’m quite proud of them. The folio is made up of the following:

  • Embossed Fine Art Paper Cover
  • 4 Page Signed And Numbered Text Signature
  • Image Index
  • 9 prints of the Botanica Obscura Series

And, until the 1st of January, 2013, the folio is on sale for $75—$15 off the regular price of $90! Sale! Give some art this holiday! Here is a link to the folio, with more images and a longer description. Oh, what the heck, here are a couple of images of said folio:

 

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Next up… prints! I love prints. Something about holding a piece of art in your hands that just can’t be replicated in the online world. There is texture, there is heft, there is no need for batteries, cords, cables-bells-whistles, hurrah! Can you tell I like prints? I like to make them, I like to give them away, I like to sell them, and I like to pull them out and look at them. Ok, ok, enough.

I’m offering the Botanica Obscura prints in two signed and numbered versions:

  1. Mounted on Plywerk’s Sustainably Harvested Bamboo Panels
  2. Unmounted, so you can frame yourself for your home’s or office’s decor
Here’s an all swanky image with Michael Jackson cotton gloves. Yes, a pair of the gloves are included. Why? Well, when you unpack the print, you can remove it from the packing and hold it without getting fingerprints on it (even though all prints are coated with four coats of UV protectant spray that happens to help with fingerprints). And, you can always hang your new print and dance around to Beat It. Or not. Here’s a link to the Plywerk prints in the store. Here’s a link to the unmounted prints.

 

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And another dark and moody installation pic (sorry for the shadows, I was shooting in customer’s house, after all):

 

botanica obscura print online store

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I’m very happy to be able to offer this work for sale. The work has been in a well-received exhibit earlier this fall, video here, and is still hanging at the North Puget Cancer Center to help raise funds for a permanent art collection for the Center. Read more here and here (you can get prints for less if you purchase them through the hospital—but only until December 1st!). I’ll have a short video up soon showing me hanging art on the not-so-interesting walls of the hallway to the Cancer Center. Hey, that’s what the project is all about… making the center a little more pleasant for the people that don’t want to be there.

I’ll also have a couple of videos up showing the folios and prints—it is a little easier to get a sense of what they truly look like in a video. YouTube and Vimeo willing, they should be up later today (those links are my channels on the respective video hosts).

Thanks for looking. Feel free to spread this around on all your favorite social media sites. Or just sit there and enjoy it all to yourself! 

Online Store Open!

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