Steamroller printmaking

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By Gareth Branwyn
Posted 2010/08/01 @ 3:44 pm
Category Art & Design

Now here’s something you don’t see every day, printmaking using a steamroller as the press. This took place at the Martha Street Studio Steamroller Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

A few more pictures on their website.

Martha Street Studio

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4 Responses to Steamroller printmaking

Shadyman on August 3rd, 2010 at 10:21 pm said:

So… Why don’t we have a steamroller festival in $city_name?

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gazer on August 4th, 2010 at 3:14 am said:

You do if you’re in San Francisco:
http://sfcb.org/events/roadworks

Roadworks Street Fair
Sunday, September 19, 2010
12-5pm
Rhode Island Street between 16th and 17th Streets

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Simon on August 4th, 2010 at 11:34 am said:

Cool, although technically that’s a road roller (we call them steam rollers here in NZ too though).

I found this where it was done with a real steam powered steamroller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXC6pdgdqTE

Might have to suggest that to the local transport museum. They do live steam days still.

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p0wn on August 6th, 2010 at 11:08 am said:

My buddy does similar printmaking, he built a cool little print making machine and takes it to places and teaches how to make basic prints. The print screen is a flat piece of styrofoam that you draw with a pen, the indentations you make are what doesn’t get printed. Pretty cool, you guys should feature them. They’ve shown a lot of people the process of printing, and are really great guys.

http://www.craftandconcept.com/pfphotos.html

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