Goccolicious

Do you ever visit Loobylu? She is a blogger/artist living in Australia, I love her work and drawings. She can make almost anything. She took a break from blogging but recently came back. Lately, she's been doing Gocco prints, and I had never ever in my life seen one of these printing things until I saw it in her blog. If you've never seen one of these, it's like a screen printing thing for paper and it looks relatively easy to use. I've been doing some googlin' and it looks really fun. Has anyone ever used one of these? They don't have it in any craft stores I have around here, I found a seller in etsy, he's in Japan, a little far away from me and this Gocco thing is no cheap gadget.

I've been thinking of all the wonderful things I could do with this thing, but then, what would I do with them? I need to sell more!  Note to self: Update etsy!

Have you used one of these? Is it really as easy as it looks?

In other news.. I've been hanging my paintings up around my house because, as one of my friends pointed out last weekend, my walls were all empty! She even joked about buying me one of my own paintings! (haha, as in not so funny ha ha.) so anyway, I thought about hanging up some of the paintings I've finished. I love to arrange them in little clusters, since almost all my works are small, they tend to need each other to fight all that white space on the walls. I'll update you with more newly made painting clusters as soon as I have more pictures.

Update on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 07:03PM by Rosa Murillo

Thanks Judith for that link! It was VERY informative, Liz's page has this link which is pure gold, as we say in spanish, I'm so smitten with this... I think I may just have to get me a gocco.

And Kathy, it's supposed to be so easy, I read somewhere that almost every house in Japan has a gocco!!! 

Comments

[Judith]

Hi-I don't use Gocco but someone whose blog I read has plenty of examples and has recently posted a series of links. You might find it informative. Her blog is at
http://lizplummer.com/blog/

Judith

[KathyL]

Oh Rosa, this looks so interesting. Now I have to do an investigation I have heard of Gocco printing but never thought an ordinary person could do it...I thought it invovled professional stuff...

k

[robyn]

My friend Elaina has a gocco and I agree it is quick and pretty easy. My problems with it are that it is very expensive and wasteful. You not only have the expense of the actual system, but you have to buy a new bulb and screen for each print, although I've heard you can pull 100 prints from each screen and materials are harder to come by. It might be because I come with a silk screening background and have been doing it since I was 14 years old and am comfortable with my way around printing like that. I think the gocco appeals to many people who would like to do silk screening but are intimidated or don't have the materials to do so. But with the gocco costing as much as it does, one can build their own silk screen set up for way less than it would cost to run a gocco. The gocoo can only make prints in a fairly small size (5"x8"?). It is less messy, but that is because of the parts that are disposable, so you don't need to clean and reuse a screen. There are several informative sites about it out there. http://savegocco.com/ and http://www.gocco.com/prod.HTM
It's popularity really exploded after it was announced that they were going to discontinue it (which I think is the reason it is more rare to find) but now I see them being sold in such places as the Paper Source and Pearl art supply occasionally, so I wonder if they have reversed their decision. It's interesting that you say that almost every home in japan has a gocco because then I wonder why they would have ever decided to stop making them.