Tile design for the Roycroft Power House

This is an original image that I made to print the tiles that will have the Roycroft Power House on them.

I didn't feel as if the print below that I had made for the presentation book would be the right format for this project.

I found a photo from the opening night on the web and made a new print of it.

The angle of the building and the setting were more in keeping with the other two images that I had made of the Chapel and the Copper Shop.

print in presentation book

After making the image, I printed it in black, scanned it, added the words and made and made a photo screen from a transparency that I printed with my laser printer from my computer.

Now, I have the three screens ready to print.
I am just waiting for the staff at the RCC to get the tiles cleaned and I will go over to the Power House where I will print them. They will be printed on the terra cotta tiles with black acrylic ink.

Here are the other two designs that I made for the photo screens.

the Copper Shop

On the Roycroft Campus, edition of 50, 2006

This is the print that I will use for the Copper Shop tiles. I will use only the screen print that was used to make the darkest color in this print

This is a print that I had made back in 2006. I created the darkest image with drawing fluid and screen filler. then I printed it onto a sheet of paper that was glued down to the screen bed. This would be my guide to create the stencils for the other two colors. I used a second screen to make a reduction print of the two other colors. The Stonehenge paper (Fawn) would serve as the lightest value in the print. A coppery light terra cotta color would be the lighter, medium color and a warm gray-brown would be on the roof and some of the shadows. After I had printed those colors, I replaced the screen with the first screen that I had made and printed a very dark brown on top of the other colors. I feel as if this print captures the look and feel of the Copper Shop, with it's front gardens and the great, sheltering tree. This building was built in 1902 as the original blacksmith shop and later became the copper shop. I have been fortunate enough to have been a member of the Roycroft Campus Corporation
ever since it started. I have taught screen printing classes there in the Copper Shop and now have one scheduled for October 27 & 28. This will be the weekend after the Arts and Crafts Conference, Oct. 18 - 21,2012 in East Aurora, NY. I have had a semi-permanent display of my original screen prints in the Copper Shop Gallery for many years. The image that I will use for the Copper Shop on the tiles will be the darkest-first screen that I made for this print

The Second Tile - The Copper Shop

The second tile will be an image of  the Copper Shop. This is the gallery of Arts and Crafts style furniture, books, pottery, stained glass and all sorts of artisan made work. I have been very pleased to have had a semi-permanent exhibit of my prints in the gallery even before the Roycroft Campus Corporation bought it.

The Copper Shop - built 1902

Back when Kitty Turgeon owned the "Roycroft Gift Shop" she had my prints in the shop for sale. I have always loved all things Roycroftie and took the first Elderhostel that was held on the campus. That was when Kitty saw my work and asked me to have a show of them in her shop. Screen printing was never an Arts and Crafts technique, but I felt that my process of painting the original images directly on the screen and doing all of the rest of the printing work myself fit the arts and crafts criteria perfectly. Later, Kitty suggested that I apply for the Roycroft Renaissance Mark.

I was awarded that privilege and for years I participated in the indoor and outdoor shows with the RALA group. I was even the mark chairman for 4 years and I designed two posters for the summer festivals.
A few years ago, I made a print of the Copper Shop. It was made with about four colors. I used two screens, one had a line drawing of the building and the other was used to make a reduction print with all of the colors other than the line drawing. First, I printed all of the colors and then printed the line drawing on top of them. This image is the line drawing of the Copper Shop - I will use it to print tiles that were recently removed from the building and replaced with new terra cotta tiles from the Boston Valley Pottery.