Links


Relevant sites for nature printing information and events...

Cornell University's Botanical Gardens offers a fine .PDF for nature printing with children.  (Thanks Raylene.) http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/education/jday/nature_printing.pdf

Selby Botanical Gardens www.selby.org.

PublicBookshelf.com reprint of an old article on Nature Printing .

Nature Printing with Tempra Paint, from our own John Doughty
www.wvwc.edu/pln/tempra.html


www.exploratorium.edu/turbulent/print.html

Preserving leaves for printing during winter www.quiltingarts.com/qallc/newsletter-archive/qa104.html

The Natural History Museum (a NPS Member)
Cromwell Road, 
London, SW7 5BD UK
www.nhm.ac.uk 
NPS Member Graphic Chemical is a good sources for a wide variety of printmaking supplies.
Artshow.com has great resources for artists: juried art show listings, tips & tutorials, and a directory of art workshops, classes & tours.

A great article on direct nature printing featured in the Daniel Smith Artists' Materials house magazine, The Inksmith by our own Heather Fortner
www.danielsmith.com/learn/inksmith/199011

A wonderful resource is www.fishbase.org.  Searches, species, genus, pictures and more.

Also available for download (1.2 megs, Acrobat PDF) is Christopher Dewees' University of California Cooperative Extension Sea Grant Program publication Gyotaku - Japanese Fish Printing. This "how-to" document (with text and pictures) is freely available for printing and distribution in educational environments.

From the 1996 NPS Newsletter, an article on mold-making with household silicone.  It's in Acrobat PDF format and runs just over 1 meg.


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