{"id":45019,"date":"2025-10-28T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45019"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:08:42","slug":"print-workshop-smart-about-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/print-workshop-smart-about-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Workshop \/ Smart About Sharks\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PRINT WORKSHOP \u2013 PRINT UP ALL KINDS OF FUN STUFF WITH THIS STEP-BY-STEP HANDBOOK FOR THE DIY ARTIST<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects<\/em>
by Christine Schmidt
Potter Craft
2010, 176 pages, 7.5 x 9 x 0.7 inches (softcover)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A year after moving, I am still finding miscellaneous books tucked into previously unpacked boxes. Luckily, that means I get to rediscover favorites like Christine Schmidt\u2019s Print Workshop: Hand-printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects<\/em>. With step-by-step instructions, project templates, and illustrated project and resource guides, this book serves as both an exhaustive guide for the DIY-er just starting out in printmaking, as well as a jumping-off point for artists who need a nudge toward new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt, the creative force behind San Francisco\u2019s Yellow Owl Workshop, organizes the book into several helpful and easy-to-navigate sections. She opens with a brief but thorough introduction to the processes of printmaking, followed by a comprehensive guide, complete with photos and drawings, to setting up a home studio and choosing materials. These initial images of materials-for-making reappear in the technique chapters, plucked from the original grid shots to become part of each project, transformed into visual verbs for the printing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who has no formal training in printmaking, I was especially interested in the breadth of the form. The \u201cRelief Printing\u201d chapter, for example, hosts a wax seal project, and \u201cImage Transfer Printing\u201d includes refreshingly simple pin-prick stationary. This book is full of fantastic gift ideas (I\u2019ll be making the sweet-potato-printed picnic set for a wedding present, and my holiday preserves are about to get gussied-up with water-slide decal jars), and because printing is made for multiples, I plan to make a whole cache of go-to homemade presents to pull from throughout the year. \u2013 Mk Smith Despres<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SMART ABOUT SHARKS \u2013 FILLED WITH FASCINATING BITE-SIZED SHARK FACTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Smart About Sharks<\/em>
by Owen Davey
Flying Eye\u00a0Books
2016, 40 pages, 9.2 x 11.5 x 0.5 inches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love children\u2019s books that are as delicious for kids as they are for adults, and Smart About Sharks<\/em> is exactly that. With a sumptuous textured cloth cover, an appealing gray-tinted palette of earth tones playfully punctuated by pink, and a retro encyclopedic design, Smart<\/em> is filled with fascinating bite-sized shark facts that were completely new to me. Examples: sharks were here on earth 200-million years before<\/em> dinosaurs; there\u2019s a shark called a megamouth that has a glow-in-the-dark mouth; some sharks grow only to the size of a pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart About Sharks<\/em>, just released today, is similar to illustrator Owen Davey\u2019s other info-packed animal\u00a0book,\u00a0Mad About Monkeys<\/a><\/em>, which came out almost exactly a year ago (363 days to be exact), and which I reviewed here on Wink. Everything from what sharks eat to their social life to their various shapes, sizes, and many different types (over 500 unique species in our oceans today!) is covered in this high-quality picture\u00a0book. Rumor has it that this is the start of a series with Flying Eye\u00a0Books. I hope the rumors are true!\u00a0\u2013 Carla Sinclair<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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