Printmaking in the newspaper

by Karen Lynn Ingalls

Last weekend's Soft Block Printing workshop made the news! Sean Scully from the Weekly Calistogan came by just as Franci Claudon was about to ink her block and pull a new print. Here's the photograph he published.

Franci is a glass artist, also part of Napa Valley Open Studios, and is now experimenting with ways she might incorporate block printing into glass art. Doesn't that sound cool? I'm looking forward to seeing how she develops it. You can see Franci's glass work on her Facebook page at facebook.com/MagpieStudioDesign, where you can also see her first block print–and–glass experiment.