Jerry Schutte

Self Portrait Linoleum Cut

18x13"

Jerry Schutte is an artist and professor at the University of Arizona who encourages his students to take art head-on. He is a skilled artist that excels in all kinds of art ranging from linoleum cuts, paintings to etchings. He teaches courses in Figure Painting, Life Drawing, Drawing, and Painting. He has had over 17 solo exhibitions, 120 national exhibitions, and has received 25 national exhibition awards. 

His self- portrait really shows the strength that texture and detail can portray in anyones artwork. The stance and point of perspective he chose to make his self portrait engages the viewer to look into his eyes as if he were actually looking at the audience. On the other hand, the disheveled look he has adds to his character and makes the print an even stronger piece.

http://hilo.hawaii.edu/~art/gallery/view/245

#3 Linocut

Art Hazelwood

Trickle Down (2005)

18"x 17", edition of 20

 

 

Art Hazelwood is a San Francisco artist, curator (person who selects content for presentation, ie museum), and activist. Most of his work is focused on the protest of the Iraq War and of the plight of the homeless.

His work has also been recognized and published by the San Francisco Chronicle who protrayed Hazelwood as an "artist [who] vents his anger in political linocuts".

In order to make his prints, he spends hours and hours etching away into sheets of copper. Once he is ready to print his designs, he inks the copper and presses it on paper.

In this piece known as "Trickle Down", Hazelwood shows the unequal distribution of money by presenting a toteum pole with the rich and powerful at the top and the poor majority at the bottom.

This piece really relates to what we are doing in class with the art of linocuting and I found this piece- along with the artist- to be a great example of illustrating the simplicity and powerfulness of such a technique.

 

His Prints are shown in a variaty of places:

*Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

*N.Y. Public Library

*Stanford Special Collections Library

*The Library of Congress

*RSDI Museum of Art

*The Whitney Museum of American Art

 

http://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/PRINTS-OF-WAILS-Art-Hazelwood-Instead-of-just-2591708.php
http://warnockfinearts.com/Art_Hazelwood.htm

Blind Embossing on Cakes

Embossing Cakes with Chef Alan Tetreault

 

 A member of Global Sugar Art, Chef Alan Tetreault works and specializes with decorative art and design on cakes using fondant as the medium. Global Sugar Art is a reknown website in the decorative arts on pastries that offers an extensive line on fondant cake decorating supplies and materials; the website also includes tutorials on how to apply and master certain decorative techniques.

In this particular video, Chef Alan Tetreault teaches the audience on how to emboss fondant on cakes once it has been prepped and ready to decorate. He states that once the fondant has hardened (yet still is fresh), the design is ready to be applied. Using a rose cutter, he applies it manually on the medium and creates a texture of imprinted roses on the fondant. After he has done so, he adds a little pop on the design by brushing pearl dust. In the end, he has a lovely embossed desgin for his finish.

 

Just like in simple blind embossing, shapes and or designs are applied on the base. However, the medium used here is fondant and the design is applied manually rather than with a printmaking machine. The finishing peice is still relatively the same; however the procedures are different.

 

 

http://youtu.be/QAYildCjbwg