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2013 Summer Sale of My Printmaking Master Classes Videos
Take Advantage of Friendly Prices Now to Complete Your Collection of My Printmaking Learning Videos–Offer good till August 26, 2013
I’ve met a few printmakers lately who didn’t even know I had made a series of printmaking learning videos. I was shocked. So I decided to offer a big discount and announce them on all the printmaking sites. You can now download any and all of the videos at a discount of 40%. So you can now buy a single video, normally $19.95, for $11.97. And all six of them are just $71.82, down from $119.70.
I had a lot of fun making these videos with video producer, Juan Carlos Romera, and they have received a warm reception from the printmakers who have downloaded them thus far.
To take advantage of the offer you’ll need this discount code: 486Q9512. When you reach the payment stage of the order process on my Printmaking Master Classes site, introduce this code when prompted. And don’t forget, once your order is processed I’ll send you the secret links that will permit you to see your videos on YouTube from any internet connection, anywhere.
I’d love to hear your comments after you use my videos. Were they clear, helpful, or even inspiring?
Urgent: I Have Changed My Email Address
Due to a server saga I won’t bore you with, I have lost the email address I have used for years. So, please take note of the new one: maureenluciabooth@gmail.com. If you have tried to contact me in the past month or so, I haven’t received your message. Please re-send to the new address.
“That’s Inked Up” Features El Gallinero
We just ran across this little feature on El Gallinero published last year on That’s Inked Up, a wide-ranging, thoughtful and attractive blog for printmakers published by Chicago-based Artist,Curator,Educator,Writer, Teresa J. Parker. This is her website: http://www.teresajparker.com/
And this is the Gallinero article on That’s Inked Up. Thanks so much, Teresa.
This Morning in the Garden
It’s one of those mistish mornings when the sun isn’t sure whether it’s going to shine or retire, with that shifty light that most people consider bad for making photographs. Our cold rainy spring has started to ease up and things in the garden have begun to sprout. Mike, who has one of those whatever-shall-I-do-this-morning mornings, picked up a camera and headed into the bush. This is what he came up with. Read more…
Things We Love About Granada — II/II
- Our Spanish neighbors, tremendously generous, helpful and hospitable
- Excellent fish, fruit and produce
- Paellas and barbecues on the terrace over wood fires
- Good sports facilities in Granada and most of the towns & villages
- Spacious and beautiful countryside for all outdoor pursuits
- Granada kid and lamb
- The lifestyle. Not as “relaxed” as you might think, as we both work, but not as insane as in other places
- Advanced attitudes on issues like human rights, freedom of speech, equality, abortion, social justice
- The roads. We didn’t realize how good they were till we visited the United States
- The way Spaniards hold their drink. In 40 years in Granada we haven’t seen a punch-up.
- Our artist and writer friends
- Always changingl morning and evening mountain light
- Poetry readings, book presentations, art exhibits
- Historic architecture, including the Alhambra
- Coffee/coffeeshops/breakfasts
- Professional waiters
- The outdoor markets
- Gardens
- The way Spaniards cherish children
- Nearby car trips
- Old-fashioned fruit: quince, medlars, madrones…
- Semi-tropical fruit: mangos, loquats, avocados, love apples…
- The morning glories
Things We Love About Granada — I/II
- Mountain hikes and picnics
- Hunting wild mushrooms/pine cones/firewood/aromatic herbs
- Wildflowers
- Breakfasts on the beach at Motril
- Lunch at the beach bar
- Summer nights everywhere
- Strolling in Granada
- Wine and tapas with friends
- Cold, damp winter days, roasting chestnuts in the fire
- Spanish friends who treat us like family
- The incredible little wrens nesting in the morning glories
- Every-day-but-Sunday garbage collection
- A whole new culinary tradition both cooking and eating
- The wines: varied, good, cheap
- The extraordinary health services
- Our stone farmhouse in the country
- The prices
- The climate. We didn’t come here for the sunshine, but we enjoy it.
- The siesta. Quality of life!
- The beautiful graffiti around the city done by “El Niño de las Pinturas”
- The street life. The sidewalk cafes are a way of life day and night.
- The health clubs, pools and spas; fine and reasonably priced
- The reservoir for swimming and kayaking
- The Sierra Nevada skiing, dining and bar hopping
- Grocery shopping at excellent, inexpensive supermarkets
- The water
Fancy a Guitar Making Course in Granada?
Fancy a guitar making course in Granada? Here’s your opportunity: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Granadas-luthery-School/200572580064211. Henner Hagenlocher is an old friend and a consummate guitar craftsman. Longtime Granada resident, he builds some of this city’s finest guitars. Henner speaks everything. Satisfaction guaranteed! 
A Closer Look at Granada Grafitti Artist, El Niño de las Pinturas
Last March, when Cathy and Mike Naro were here from Chicago, Mike and I took a stroll around Granada while Cathy and Maureen worked in the studio. I wanted Mike Naro to see the extraordinary work of Raul Ruiz, the Granada grafitti artist. I made a few pictures of the street murals we visited and published them here on Maureen’s Printmaking Courses in Spain blog. Mike, who was a bit skeptical about walking out of our way to see street art, said, “This isn’t grafitti; it’s art!”
The other day I ran across this video of Raul creating one of his mural-sized portraits in a live performance in the Centro de Lenguas Modernas of the University of Granada on the occasion of the closure of their 2011-2012 academic year.
If you’re tempted to see more of El Niño de las Pinturas, here’s a link to his YouTube channel.
Bea Chang Takes a Work Break in Granada
Here’s Bea, hard at work.
Bea Chang,a writer whose formative years have taken her around the world, leaves today after spending a week in the Gallinero working. Though Bea is on a joyous two month Morocco-Spain-and-Ireland tour, she’s aware that her classmates in the creative-writing masters program at the University of Washington are spending the summer working on their critically important end-of-term projects. So she Googled “writers refuge Spain” and up popped the Gallinero.
Bea has been our most discreet, least demanding guest. She said she wanted to work and we left her to it. Her project is to write a series of short stories based on her travels this summer. “It’s like travel writing,” says Bea, “but in fiction, not non fiction. I loved the Gallinero because it was secluded and quiet, so conducive to writing.”
Bea, we wish you all the best in getting an A+ on your project, in getting it published and becoming famous. And we hope to see you again soon in the Gallinero.
I Think Printmakers Have Whinged Enough
“Behemoth and Leviathan,” a print by William Blake
What’s a Gallinero? And why would you want to stay there?
Printmakers Like Rabbits Stunned in Headlight Beams
At left, “Behemoth and Leviathan” by William Blake–Fine-art printmakers today are facing challenges of sea-change magnitude. The very existence of printmaking as we know it is at stake. The issue, of course, is digital and we should have seen it coming. In fact, many of us did but remained inert, like rabbits stunned in headlight beams. “Digital” has been everybody’s issue since the electronic scientific calculator replaced the slide rule in the mid 1970s. Computers changed everything. They brought us an ever-growing set of delightful mod cons but along the way they took a terrible toll on printmaking, threatening print artists’ livelihoods forever.
Thanks to digital innovations artists who have always made their livings creating and selling hand-pulled prints must now compete with images created in inexpensive unlimited series using digital copying technology. The operative word here is “copy,” though funnily enough it almost never appears in the sales pitches. There the digital copiers prefer to refer to their ware coyly as “giclee prints.” The term “giclee” is a recent invention, essentially meaningless hype when applied to fine art, but to the uninitiated it sounds chic in the way “call girl” does when referring to whores. Read more…
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