Tools Talismans Totems

The show's over now, but will be installed in my studio for POST, the annual Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, on October 3-4. 155 Cecil B Moore Ave, Philadelphia PA.

Book Paper Scissors November 22, 2014

Saturday! I'll be showing and selling prints and paper objects. Come see!

Book Paper Scissors

Free Library of Philadephia

1901 Vine Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

10am - 4pm

HOLIDAY 2014 EVENTS

November 15, 2014
The Franklin Flea
The Historic Strawbridge's
801 Market Street
10am - 5pm

November 22, 2014
BOOK, PAPER, SCISSORS
The Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
10am - 4pm

December 5, 2014 (OPENING RECEPTION)
Blanket Fort! BYO Print's annual group exhibition

The Art Dept
1638 E Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125
Opening Reception: 6pm -9pm
Exhibition and print sale open through the month of December
Gallery Hours: Fri/Sat 12pm - 7pm, Sun 12pm - 4pm

December 5, 2014 (OPENING RECEPTION)

Small Works

The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym

1834 E. Frankford Avenue

Opening Reception: 6pm -9pm

December 6, 2014
Coldhearted IV
The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym
1834 E. Frankford Avenue
12pm - 6pm

December 13, 2014
Crafty Balboa Holiday Market
SS Neumann Goretti High School
1736 South Tenth Street

December 14, 2014
Go West Craft Fest - Holiday Edition
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
11am - 5pm

Davenport Beach 2014

Silkscreen sugar lift resist

"The plate will go for a dip in the morning. Late nights at #BYOprint "

Herons

New images on the other big plate.

Today's recap

Just proofed version #4

 

'Oh, You Pretty Things' in progress

Here are a few shots of a large etching plate in progress. Begun in November 2013, it should turn a page in my new work, I hope.

The first drawing layer on the plate; a moon and some marionette ladies. 

Pushing the size limits on our etching press!

An early proof of the moon portion of the plate.

I use prior proofs of the plate to decide where to make changes on the copper, with scraping and burnishing.

Most recent proof. I'll cut the plate down the center line and one plate will become two!

--
Kate VanVliet

Fine Art:
http://Katevanvliet.com

My shop, BYO Print:
http://byo-studio.blogspot.com

Sometimes silkscreen happens

A quick and enjoyable one-color card I printed this fall for some friends.

Snapshots from last weekend's Go West Craft Fest at the Woodlands Cemetary

Prints of things

 

One of a kind etched drawings on brass.

Embracing my inner cat lady

the gingko leaves were so fun to draw on!

OOAK lockets of course.

A Father's Day video

I've been trying to keep busy this Father's Day, since it is my first without one.

Last month my aunt delivered some furniture to my house that came from my grandparents' home of thirty years. The collections of memories in that tiny brick rancher was astounding. I'm now happily writing this post from the handmade desk that my grandfather built. In his tiny office, dark and dense, it was hard to see his perfect craftsmanship, but knowing him meant you knew that anything he built would be perfectly constructed. This desk is solid, and I'm thrilled to now call it mine.

With the desk and other bigger things, came a small box with a few dishes, a tea set, and two VHS home videos. I cannot play home videos because I own neither a TV nor a cassette player. It took two weeks to have the VHS tapes copied to DVD. 

I watched them for the first time Friday night. Here is an excerpt for father's day. I can't recall seeing this video before. It was filmed by my uncle, John Van Vliet, in 1991, in Fresno, California at our house on Crystal Avenue. The family is packing up our belongings getting ready to make the road trip home to Maryland, just in time for Halloween. While John visits, we have a little fun in the front yard.

Never took one lesson, mind you.

April 27th, 2013 CRAFTY BALBOA time!

Next weekend I will be vending at the spring edition of Crafty Balboa, my favorite fest for spring and winter!

Visit me and Lisa Imperiale. We'll have prints and printmaking-related objects.