Nora Aoyagi

The Anatomy of a Steamroller Print

I had an awesome time this weekend at Roadworks.  I met so many cool and delightfully nerdy people.  It was really inspiring and heart warming to be among printmakers again.  Many thanks to the amazing team at The San Francisco Center For The Book and to all the good people who made their way out to the festival.  

This is what happened:

ink oversized block, then lay on the street and wipe edges clean (green printers gloves required):

lay giant dampened paper on top:

cover with sturdy blankets:

roll over with a steamroller:

remove blankets and gently peel off paper:

And VOILA!:

A special thanks to the ladies who got their hands dirty!

 

Roll Out! Roadworks This Saturday!

This Saturday is the Roadworks Street Fair, a printmaking festival put on by the good folks at The San Francisco Center for the Book.  The feature event is the printing of oversized linoleum prints by way of a steam roller!  I was honored to be one of the six artists invited to carve a 3' X 3' linoleum block for the event.  

Admittedly, it has been a while since I have done any relief printmaking, but it ended up being really fun!  My old woodcarving tools were happy to see the light again, and getting down on the floor and chiseling away for hours was curiously engrossing.  I left my studio floor strewn with little curls of linoleum and ended up tracking it all over the house.   

Please come by and visit me at my vendor table!  

Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival

Saturday, September 24th, 12-5pm

San Francisco Center For the Book

300 De Haro Street

San Francisco, CA