New project

Roycroft Chapel, East Aurora, NY - built in 1899

The last time that I took some new art work over to the Copper Shop Gallery the director of the Roycroft Campus Corporation, Christine Peters told me that she had an idea of what could be done with the terracotta tiles that had been replaced from the roofs of some of the original buildings on the Roycroft Campus. I was asked to screen print images onto the flat side of the tiles. I am interested in doing this and took a tile home to try to print on.

My textile ink (an acrylic ink) seemed to work quite well. The tiles all have a slight dip in the center and I needed to pull the squeegee in two directions to be able to print in the dip. This worked well because I had clamped the screen in place on the tile.

Power House Book

I found an image of the Roycroft Chapel that I had made when I was printing a lot on fabric. These were all one color prints as I cannot register more colors on fabric - or on tiles. I will plan to make photographic screens screens of the Chapel, the Copper Shop and the Power House. The lettering on the screens can be done by using computer fonts, incorporating them into my designs. I have made a print of the Copper Shop that I can use and I have photos of the Power House and the multicolored print that I made of it last winter. I need to turn the Power House into a black and white image - originally it was made with light colors against black. This print was made to be in a presentation book, Linda Meyer did the calligraphy and Diane Bond bound it and made the covers.