Our wonderful printmaking instructor Nikki Barber is on another artist’s pilgrimage to Northern Thailand. She’s spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques.
She sent us a “postcard” via email, with some pics and notes about the first few days of her trip.
Nikki Barber, Ajan Nok (Patcharin Meelarp), and Josh (Nikki’s partner). In Thailand, everyone has a given name and a nickname. This woman is an incredible human and artist. Her nickname is “Nok”, which means bird. “Ajan” means Professor.
A Thai Printmaking Press at my friend, “Tak”’s studio in Chiang Mai
Opening ceremony for exhibition at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna, where I’m doing the international artist workshop
I’ve been teaching an expressive portraits class on Friday nights. In the first few classes we talked about common pitfalls including the blueberry pancake effect of features floating in the middle of a round face shape. We practiced how to measure proportions quickly, how to see the three dimensional aspects of a face, what makes …
This post is an example of it’s own point about how art is changed by frequency, constant inflow, and connectivity. I’m putting this blog post out before the ink dries, without fact checking, thoughts still unresolved. I’ve that itch that says I didn’t finish getting the gunk out of the wrinkles in my own ideas. But I’m publishing …
Not every student work is a keepsake, but it’s a hard drop to have your perfectly imperfect artworks become garbage. Instead of piling up or going to a landfill, some artists have the very clever idea to re-use their work in collages. They get all of the enjoyment and benefit of creative play, doubled. I …
Postcard from Thailand
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Nikki Barber Printmaking in Thailand
Our wonderful printmaking instructor Nikki Barber is on another artist’s pilgrimage to Northern Thailand. She’s spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques.
She sent us a “postcard” via email, with some pics and notes about the first few days of her trip.
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