Open Studio In Toronto

Sur les traces de Miro, Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux 2010

Here is a photo journal of my residency in Toronto with artist collaborator Arthur Desmarteaux. Thank you to Graff Print Studios in Montreal and all the great staff at Open Studio for making this exchange possible. Also big Thanks to the Canada Council of the Arts for making the travel possible, and to Frederick and Sylvia for sharing their apartment for 2 weeks! [FYI: most photos feature Arthur printing....but I will assure you it was a total team effort to print 36" x 48", our biggest yet, thanks to the arm and vacuum table at Open studio!]

We drew the final outline image on clear print vellum

The final image is surreal landscape influenced by Miro's abstract figuration style

The first 3 colors we printed were made by stenciling out areas using screen filler

More pink!

The squeegee arm and vacuum table at work.

The first layer of color is a pink gradient sky, followed by a 2 gradient sandy desert landscape

Needed lots of table space...

We are now ready for photo emulsion. The last 4 colors will be registered using the clear print vellum layers we hand painted.

The print after the first color blue

After printing blue, red and yellow; slight transparencies allowed for more colors from the three primaries.

We touched up some details in white, before printing the final outline black.

The print before the final outline black.

We finished at 2am sunday night before our train back to Montreal.

[Sorry no images of printing final black! too tired.]

Thanks to registration tabs, all 6 prints look great.

After some laborious cleaning frenzy, we pack up and catch the night street car up Spadina.

The christian Science Church we talk about UNREALITY next sunday.....too bad we won't be in town....

breakfast...