Screen printing - through the lens

Yesterday I ran a screen printing workshop with some friendly and creative makers. It's always a fun day spending time being able to pass on my skills as a printer, and to see the designs people make and looks of excitement on everyone's faces. 

Here's a few images from the day (snapped with my iphone at random times), but I highly encourage you to check out this sublimely beautiful video that Noah made. His viewpoint and vision is simply wonderful. We at Hey Maker! are really happy to have Noah hang out in our space and use his quiet talents and skills for such wonderful visions. He also made some fantastic stencils, and printed scarab beetles onto a tie-dyed tote bag he's owned since kindergarten. Now how good is that!

I have another screen printing workshop coming up on 16th December, if you'd like to try your hand at printing your own fabric. Or come along to my stencil printing session at the Ukitopia festival on 17th November.

Check out Noah's blog and flickr.

*top black and white images are screen shots from Noah's video. Other images are by me, Ellie.

what is slow art? I hear you ask....

Slow Art, like the Slow Food Movement or the Slow Living Movement, is about shunning the mentality of needing to rush, hurry, and scurry. Instead of always thinking about the end result of your making, Slow Art is about enjoying the process and the meditation of the making. It's also about remembering the skills and talents and experiences of our forebears, and taking a moment to think about the farmers, makers, designers and producers of our art or craft making supplies.

Feeling the yarn slip through your fingers, as you crochet or knit.

Listening to the sound of scissors cutting through fabric.

Enjoying the slow bite of a needle pulling thread through fabric to become stitches.

Watching the colour evolve in a piece - paint, thread, fabric, yarn, ink, paper...........

Slow Art, of course, comes with enjoyable moments of conversation, taking time to sip from your warm cup of tea, and nibble at delicious home cooked cakes. Feeling the crumbs tumble onto your lap.

You'll be lost in the moment of making. Of not over-thinking a design or the end result; just being part of the doing. Perhaps you may not finish your piece today, or next week, or even next year; but that doesn't matter. Some pieces are simply about remembering why you enjoy making and creating.

We hope to see you at our fortnightly Slow Art sessions in our new Hey Maker! Work Room.

Make the most of a creative opportunity!

The Hey Maker! Collective wants to hear from you!

If you think you'd like to be part of a really inspiring

studio/retail space and live around the 

Murwillumbah area, get in contact we'd love to chat!

need it bigger? click on the pic xoxo

POTATOPRINTPOPUP

Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April signals the arrival of Hey Maker! a new creative collective to the region. Hey Maker! will present POTATOPRINTPOPUP, a free workshop taking place at Verge - 13 Queen Street, Murwillumbah.

Hey Maker! creative collective invites the community to join them in creating a fun potato print art installation on a shop wall. Using potato supplied by local farmers participants will cut and carve designs to create stamps and print on recycled materials.

The workshop kicks off at 10am – 3pm, and the community is invited to pop into Verge anytime to participate and contribute to an installation of work on the shop wall. Hey Maker’s aim is to highlight that art can be made from simple everyday materials including vegetables and recycled boxes and cardboard.

Four artists from Hey Maker! will be on hand during the event. Take home kits will be available, so participants can continue their crafty fun at home!