 right with a new play. You know, I'm gonna show you pretty things, I think, right? And then. Do it. Yeah. I don't know what I'll do, but I'll do something. I'll show you, I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you, show you, show you, show you. There's four people. Let's do it. Just start it. Yeah. There's four people. There's a lot of books, I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna show you the book. Yeah, I know, I'm gonna show you the place. Do you have enough plain paper? Yeah. It's a little bit nice here. Yes. So you can say they can get it. They have, you don't have to say there's materials, but they can use styrofoam from food packaging. Like vegetables and meat, you can totally use that. Buenas tardes, todos. Bienvenidos al programa de Summer Stride de Impresión de Espuma de Poliastireno con el artista Calisto Robles. Este es un evento que está en vivo y va a estar en YouTube por unos días nada más para que lo puedan compartir. Este es la biblioteca pública de San Francisco y estamos muy felices de que estén acá. Next. Además del taller de hoy, tenemos un taller también con Calisto Robles el próximo viernes a las 2 de la tarde sobre monotipos y estampas de cocina. Next. Este es todavía el tiempo del programa de verano Summer Stride de la biblioteca pública de San Francisco y pueden todavía inscribirse para leer sus 20 horas y entregar a su y que reciban su bolsa de premio que tiene el arte de la señorita Juanita. Next. Reconocemos que estamos en tierras no cedidas de los indígenas Oloni. Reconocemos la multitud de grupos y familias indígenas Ramatush, Oloni, como los guardianes legítimos de las tierras donde vivimos. SFPL te anima a aprender más sobre las culturas indígenas y los derechos de tierras. La biblioteca está comprometida a hacer anfitriona de eventos y proveer recursos adicionales disponibles en temas como los derechos de tierras, la comunidad indígena del área de la Bahía y culturas de primera persona. En un rato pondremos un enlace para que puedan mirar en qué territorio están ustedes. Next. También tenemos otros programas que vienen. El 14 de Augusto a las 2 de la tarde, eso es mañana. Tenemos una celebración de poesía de la vida ilegado de Janice Miricatini. Y van a ver poetas laureados de San Francisco previos y otras personas de notar en el mundo literario de la poesía. Next. También, si saben, este programa en la misma página, en inglés, on the same page, es un programa donde animamos a toda la ciudad a leer el mismo libro juntos por uno o dos meses a la vez. Y la selección de julio a agosto se llama Bread at the Bone de Jacqueline Woodson. Y vamos a tener también programas con ella sobre este libro. Next. También como parte del programa de verano que todavía sigue, tenemos un taller de hacer zines que son como publicaciones autoechas que son muy pequeñitas como revistas pequeñas con Malacca Garib. Eso es el 23 de agosto a las 7 de la tarde. Next. Bueno. Y ahora les doy la información sobre lo que vamos a hacer hoy con Calisto Robles. Son impresión, después mal peor de estereno. Él, pues, obviamente, va a explicar eso, pero les digo un poquito de Calisto. Él es un pintor, litógrafo y escultor de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México. Y está inspirado por los mitos, símbolos, colores y tradiciones antiguas de Mesoamérica. Calisto mezcla técnicas de cerigrafía, que aumentan la textura y brillo del color, con imágenes dibujadas y encontradas. Sus pinturas exploran reinos mágicos, mientras que sus cerámicas le permiten reconectarse con los materiales terrenales. OK, entonces, voy a pasártelo a ti, Calisto. Y antes de empezar, puedes acordarnos que lista de materiales quisieras que tengamos con nosotros? Sí, pero. List of materials. Just styrofoam and paper and ink. They have the list. Maybe Anissa can drop the list in the chat. Pero si no, pues lo que se necesita para trabajar en poliestileno es este pedazos de este material que se puede conseguir a veces en los embases de comida. A veces que vienen se pueden recortar en pedazos y con eso se puede trabajar, ¿verdad? Necesitamos papel. Cualquier papel es bueno para este tipo de impresión. Necesitamos algunas tintas para block printing, para impresión de madera o linoleo. Y eso se pueden conseguir en algunas tiendas de arte. Son tintas de agua. También necesitamos algo para poner presión, para imprimir, para pasar la imagen al papel. Y se pueden usar este tipo de una cuchara. O también se pueden ocupar el fondo de botellas. Pero en este caso vamos a usar una cuchara plana. Y también necesitamos esos rodillos para poner la tinta en el platito de polietileno. Esas tintas, esas rodillos. Eso es todo a algunas toallas de papel para limpiar los rodillos o la mesa. Si es posible tener un balde de agua para lavar los rodillos o los plásticos, o también para lavar las placas de polietileno para poner otro color, hay que lavar primero la placa. Eso es lo más importante de materiales. Perfecto, gracias. Ok, sígueme. Sí, bueno, preparé unos imágenes antes de estar con ustedes. Y, bueno, antes de eso, también quiero agradecer al San Francisco Public Library por la invitación. Gracias a la gente que está presente viéndonos. Y como dije antes, preparé algunos trabajos antes de estar aquí. Y voy a mostrar algunas cositas que hice y después explico como hice. Aquí está una imagen, este... ¡Hermoso! Y esto lo hice usando tres colores solamente, ¿verdad? El tema del taller, que es reducción, usando la misma placa. Y hice este trabajito. Este es uno que hice. Otro que hice también fue este. Veo otro trabajito aquí usando con tres colores en una sola placa. El tema, la técnica de la reducción, se salieron todos estos colores. Otro trabajo que hice, igualmente hice otro... Usando otros colores, la misma placa, varió un poquito los colores, pero estaba buscando, experimentando para poder presentar algo hoy. Aquí está otro trabajito que hice. Dice love, aquí se ve al revés, pero viéndonos bien. Interesante porque nosotros lo vemos bien, lo vemos como love. Ok, si yo lo vi aquí en la pantalla, dice, bueno, qué bueno, está bien. Todos estos son unos ejemplos que estuve trabajando ayer para presentar hoy. Y aquí tengo más o menos... Esto es otro que hice hoy, esta mañana, antes de estar con ustedes. Como se ve, parecen muchos, muchos colores, pero solamente son amarillo, el rojo y azul. El azul cuando se mezcló con el rojo de un poquito como morado. Por eso se ve así, medios morados. Y voy a explicar más o menos cómo fue el proceso. Este fue el primer color que imprimí. Fue este amarillo. Y como se ve, aquí hay unas imágenes blancas, que es donde... Aquí está el platito, este es el deje el color azul, pero primero con un lápiz o con una pluma, con la punta de un lápiz o una pluma, hice el dibujo sobre la placa. Un poquito fuerte para que marque. Y después ya puse, con un rodillo puse el color amarillo, y cuando ya imprimí, salió así, ¿verdad? Después, limpié la placa, quité el color amarillo que tenía en la placa, y le puse color rojo o un rodillo. Y así fue como salió cuando imprimí sobre el papel. Este era el color que salió. Después la ve, la plaquita que tenía rojo, no la ve, y después ya le puse el color azul, que fue este, y cuando ya se pusieron los tres colores, al final fue este el trabajo. Es un poquito, probablemente un poquito medio difícil de entender ahorita porque, pero ahorita que hagamos ya la demostración, va a ser muy fácil que le entiendan, es muy sencillo. La técnica de impresión, hay muchas técnicas para ser grabado. Hay grabado en madera, hay grabado en linoleo, hay grabado en metal, hay grabado en piedra que se llama litografía, y también hay otro tipo de grabado que se llama monotipo, que se hace solamente un grabado de esa impresión, y eso se llama monotipo porque es solamente uno. Y este tipo de trabajo que estamos haciendo, que es muy fácil de hacer, muy muy sencillo, y vamos a empezar a hacer una demostración. Aquí está este, a la gente que está en la transmisión, si tienen alguna pregunta o alguna sugerencia, pues que nos manden un chat, ¿verdad? Y durante el proceso se los podemos contestar. Entonces, aquí está el pedazo de estereoform o polietileno, como le llamamos. Y esta es una pluma. Y pues voy a hacer algo. Me gustó mucho como están saliendo los corazones, así que voy a hacer otro que lo que más ahorita. Y es muy sencillo, pues estoy apretando un poquito fuerte al platito para que la punta escarbe en el polietileno. Muy sencillo. Y aquí se le puede poner algunas palabras, ¿verdad? Yo le he puesto lo, pero se le puede poner el nombre de alguien. De alguien querido. Pon el nombre de tu esposa. Pon el nombre de él. Si, este, nomás recuerde que hay que ponerlo al revés porque cuando se pasa al papel, hay que poner al revés las letras como por ejemplo aquí, ¿verdad? Si, eso exactamente me va a preguntar, que si eso es lo que no tiene que hacer con las letras. Si, hay que ponerlas al revés porque si no, sale, sale revés. Entonces, pues es muy sencillo. Ahí está, ahí si, si quisiera ahora, podría ponerle la tinta y imprimir, pero le quiero agregar unas líneas más. Todo lo que yo estoy haciendo ahora, es lo que va a quedar blanco, ¿verdad? Entonces, por ejemplo, aquí le voy a hacer unos rayos. Unos rayos que van, todo esto va a ser blanco, todo esto que estoy rayando, aquí se vea azul por la tinta de la pluma, pero esto va a ser, lo que estoy haciendo aquí es haciendo un hoyito en el, un hoyo en la plaquita, que es donde la tinta no va a entrar, por eso, por eso va a quedar blanco. Es como que estoy escarbando, y ahí no va a entrar la, la tinta. Y este, este, esta técnica se, es muy fácil para, para los niños o para cualquier gente, es muy, es muy bonito porque se pueden hacer tarjetas de, de cumpleaños, tarjetas de navidad, para el día de las madres, para hacer proyectos, para haceros, es muy, muy bonito, muy fácil, y muy, se, se usan pintas de agua, entonces no hay ningún, no hay peligro de, de, de contaminación o cosas así. Entonces aquí ya se, sí, se ve un poquito más, tiene más semenas líneas. Yo creo que ahí está bien por ahorita, para que, para que se, se empieza con el color más claro, pero, no, no, no, no tiene que ser así, se puede usar, otro, se puede usar cualquier color, pero generalmente se, se aplica, entonces aquí está el amarillo, entonces aquí con el rodillo, se expande sobre el plato, en este caso tengo plato de plástico, pero también se puede usar algo de metal, algo que no sea, que no sea poroso, que sea nada más, entonces ya que está bien cargado el rodillo, ponemos el, el plato y vamos a pintar este, este, como se ve, quedó ya el plato todo amarillo, voy a, aquí, aquí tenemos el papel, aquí está, vamos a poner el, el papel, el plato acá, subele un poquito más, ok, no más voy a voltearlo, no, no, pero así, así, así, así, así, así queda, sí, y luego, voy a poner un pedazo de papel, en este caso un pedazo de periódico arriba de la placa y el papel, y luego con la cucharita, con este lado, vamos a poner a poner presión y a rastarle o cómo se dice a como transferir o pegarle, apretarle para que para que la tinta que tenía la plaquita se pase al papel, ah, como, como esos, esas calcomanias que se ponen los niños que se pegan en la, en la piel, estamos pasando la calcamonía that the paper had, the plate to the paper. So since I gave it a little bit of strength, we remove the paper and we're going to lift the plate. How cute. There it is, that's the first color, the labyrinth. And if you realize where it is white, it's where I scratched with the pen at the beginning, right? It has to be white, white of the paper. If there had been another color of the paper, it would have been that color, but here in this case it has to be white of the paper. So now I'm going to wash this plate with water. Here, near me I have a bucket with water. Ah, well, yes, a bucket with that. And then here I am cleaning the plate with a towel. And now it's clean, I already removed the yellow ink. And now I'm going to prepare the other color that ... Ah, but first I'm going to ... I want to preserve something from the yellow color that is here because I'm going to put a color right now. I'm going to put red ink on the plate. And then later I'm going to put it there. But if I put red ink on this plate now and I don't scratch it, I don't remove something that is yellow, it's going to be all red. So I want to preserve something from this yellow that is here. So with my pen, I'm going to scratch the plate again. I'm going to scratch the plate again and I'm going to take it out. When I'm taking this out, this is going to be yellow. This is what I'm putting in the lines. It's going to be yellow in the first color. So here we are scratching it. We are drawing it in lines. And all this is going to be where it's going to be yellow. Everything where I'm scratching it right now is going to be the yellow that I just printed. All this is going to be yellow. And then we're going to prepare the red color because I want the heart to be red. It can also be yellow, but I prefer it to be red. I've already drawn a lot of lines around it so that those lines are yellow. Here I'm going to scratch it a little hard so that it doesn't get in. I'm going to leave it like this so that the red color enters the heart. Here I'm going to add a flower. This is going to be yellow. I think there's yellow down there. This is yellow. All this is going to be yellow. So here I've already scratched it a lot. Here it's going to be yellow. And here it's going to be red. And here it's going to be red because I haven't done anything here. All this is going to be red. So now I'm going to prepare the red. Here's the red. One question. Is there any way to make that kind of roller in the house or is it very difficult? I don't know if it's possible to do it. They can use paint roller. They can go with a scone. They can just go with a paint roller. It's very easy. Here my wife Alexandra Blue can buy a roller in the hardware store. The little ones. The little ones. Yes. Perfect. Yes. But the truth is that these are special. Yes. Because they are a little bit hard. But you can also try with that if you work. So I'm working. I'm loading the roller with the red. There are several ways. In this case this ink was a little soft. There's not much work to blend it. It's fine. There are some tints that are a little bit harder. You have to work them a little bit. Mix them a little bit so that they become softer. But in that case this ink is very good. So since it's there. Let's try. Let's try now the red. Here this. So if you see this. Where I took it out. It's a moment where I was taking it out and it looks a little yellow. Right now I'm going to put it in the. This. Here is the paper that. It has the yellow. Let's put it here. I'm going to put the. The little plate that has red. On top. The most. As close as possible. There it is. The paper. And we're going to. To do it with the. To make it. We're printing the. The second color. Red. On the yellow that she already had. And. Let's see how it goes. Since we saw a little. Let's see. And I'm holding my breath. Look. Yes. Beautiful like fire. Yes. The truth is that. Now that I've been doing these practices. I'm seeing so many possibilities of doing this. It's very beautiful. And I'm thinking. Doing this I'm thinking. To do some workshops with children in the community. Because it's something that I think they would like a lot. And it's very easy. It can be done quickly. In a few. Half an hour they can do a. Or less. Some. Yes. So here. There are already two colors. The yellow. And the red. And if you look at some white lines. Still. Of what we saved at the beginning. Now we're going to. To put the dark color. It could be a black color. Or in this case I'm going to use a blue color. I'm. I'm going to. First I'm going to wash this little plate that has red. I'm going to wash it to give it the red paint. And then we're going to. Basically. We're going to wash it here. And this. We're going to dry it. Practically. With this towel. Yes. And we're going to wash it. It's already clean. We're already drying it with a towel. We put it here. And now we're going to. Use this blue color. But first. I'm going to scratch it a little bit. To. To save the red that I just printed. Because if I put blue on this plate. And we print it on the paper. This. It's going to cover all the red that I put. So for example this area. The heart. I think it's been a lot of scratches. This. This. This is going to save the red that it already has there. So I'm pressing it a little bit hard on the pen. So that it gets into the. The Styrofoam of the polyethylene. And so it doesn't. Not much blue ink. It's still going to be something because. If I wanted this to be as red as it is. Then I would have to cut it with a exact knife. I cut that part. And I take that part out. And it's not going to go absolutely anything with ink. But. That's what I was thinking. What happens if you open a hole when you're not trying to. Well, if there is a hole. This. Well, it can be better. But yes, it's not going to be anything with ink anymore. And maybe what I'm going to do is this. To do this and then I'm going to. Use a little knife and cut the heart. So that you can see how it is. There are many. Possibilities and possibilities. Many techniques. So here we are. More or less. But I'm going to leave a little bit more here for. So that some blue lines and yellows are free. And if it comes in a little blue, it's not much. So I'm pressing it a little hard. And I realize that some parts of. The Styrofoam, as they are breaking, but. But it's fine. We're pulling it. Pressing it hard. This is. Out. Here. Here. Here in the flower, I'm going to. In the flower, I'm going to. I'm going to be a little bit. So that. It's better. It's better to be more clear. The red color. Okay, so I've already scratched it here as much as it could. And. Now I'm going to. Put the blue color. My knee. Preparing the color. Ya que más o menos. Me do cuenta de que el rodillo está bien cargado de tinta. Vamos a. A poner el. Lato. Me do cuenta de que hay todavía azul. Este. En el corazón, pero a lo mejor se va a ver interesante el. También. También se puede. Se podría poner un pedacito de papel arriba. Esto lo voy a hacer para que salga más. Mejor. Entonces. Para hacer como un corazoncito aquí para. Lo voy a poner arriba de este de este azul para que no salga. No salga azul sobre el. El corazon. Más o menos va a ser así. Pongo acá arriba. Así. Mi papel. Aquí está el. El trabajo. Vamos a poner un pedacito de. De tape aquí al corazón. Para que no esté. No se caiga de acá. Aquí. Eso va a. El azul. Ah. Con eso. Filiito. Keep. Pesta de emocionada para ver. Que. Lysa. Resla. Tratando. Aca. Pasemal. I think here it is, more or less, we are going to remove our bell, and we are going to see how it came out. So we are going to remove this one that is here, the paper that we used here. Oh, it stuck! Now it stuck, yes, it's because of the ink it had, but look. Beautiful, wow. And we did this with three colors, right? First the yellow, then the red, and the blue. And all that variety of colors that you have is very beautiful. And then the white, which was the first color that came out. But there are many other things that can be done. I don't know if you have any questions, but if not, you can also make background like these degraded ones, right? These blends that we call... Very cool. And it's very easy, this is very easy. We are going to make this, for example, a gradient of magenta, like a sunset. Let's see if something comes out. And then we put the ink more or less in that position. With a bigger rod, we are going to... Then the yellow, when it mixes with the magenta, it gives a color like an orange. How beautiful. And here it is, there it is. So we have our new plate. We are going to put it here. And we are going to try it. It's making me think of a Sunrise tequila. So look, this is our plate. We are going to put it in this white paper. So we take it carefully, we turn it around, we put it in the paper more or less in the middle. We are going to use in this position a glass, the bottom part, to transfer the paint that is on the plate to the paper. I'm pressing it a little hard. For me, I like the spoon more, I don't know, I like the spoon more, but just to show you that there is another possibility. No, and I love that I can't use things from home, and that's how it is, it's not so complicated. No, and these wooden spoons are very good. There is another, there is a special tool that is called Varen. It is, it is used a lot by the Japanese to make their engravings, but we don't find what we have. But this is a flat spoon that works. So here we give it to this, we take our paper and we are going to see how our transfer came out. Oh, how beautiful. Very beautiful, the truth is that it could already be a job, but now we can add something, I could use this image here, the heart, or I could also use this, this image of the Buddha that I made. I'm going to use this angel to see how it comes out with this, I'm going to wash it first because it's blue. Okay, and this here, we already washed it, now we're going to, here it is without the ink, right? So now we're going to be able to do the, let's see if it's blue, let's see how it comes out with blue. So we're trying the knee, it already had a little blue, so here's the plate that I had already done yesterday, so we're going to put the ink, then loading the plate, let's see how it comes out like this. Here's the paper that we already did with the degraded one, we're going to put the plate over it, we put our paper to flatten it. A question, the reason why you don't put the paper is because you can't do it directly in the... It could be done, but I think it's done to, maybe one of the areas comes out, and for example here it has a little ink, it can be stained a little, for example, we put this paper and if you look here, we try to, the engraving is very nice, but sometimes you have to be as clean as possible, because you work a lot with ink, knees, it's very easy to stain the paper, and it takes practice, because it took me a lot of time to be very careful, always putting a lot of ink, but that's part of the process, and I think it's during the process, you learn how to take the paper, everything is practical, the more practical you have, the cleaner and more centered things come out, but it's a matter of errors, it's a matter of errors, and you learn how to take the paper, how it came out of the blue, it came out very interesting, that's beautiful, it came out very interesting, you can do a lot of other things, if someone has a question, a suggestion, you can do this, this is the iPhone. I have a question, when you are trying to think about what to do, what drawings, what things to do for printing, do you think it's better not to get into that type of drawing, or what types of drawings work better? I don't think that any drawing can be interesting, maybe the small details would be a little more difficult, but I think that any ideas will come out very interesting, with their own qualities, I don't think there's any problem, I would like to make you, for example, I'm going to use again this little plate, this degraded one, and then I'm going to try to cut the heart here, so that the color comes out cleaner, so here we still have some ink, here's the plate, definitely Tequila Sunrise for Friday night. Yes, especially for today's Friday, so here's the plate, we're going to put a new paper, and this paper is, we use it for copies of the printer, it's a very accessible paper, very cheap to buy, here it is, let's put it first, and then we put our paper up here, and we start to try, always with these fingers here I grab the paper so that it doesn't move, but it almost doesn't move, because the ink absorbs, that ink that we use is very absorbent, it's very sticky, so the paper sticks to the plate, but anyway, as I'm pressing a little hard, this way it doesn't move anymore, so let's remove the paper, it's a very nice background, so I'm going to remove the heart, and I'm going to cut it with this acton, always very carefully, because it has a thread, so we press a little hard here, pressing hard to cut it, so here we remove it, I'm going to print this color, I think the color would be interesting, I think it's going to be yellow, yellow, yellow, and now we're going to put it over, over our, and this heart, we're going to put it in red, no, it's interesting. This is another different technique, small here. It's true, there are so many possibilities. Yes, there are many possibilities, you can make, you can glue pieces of paper, as if they were collages, it's very nice, and the most interesting for me is that it's very fast to do, one hour, or sometimes to dry, almost immediately. Well, if the audience has any questions, please let us know already. So, let's see, I think this is going to be the last impression we're making, so if anyone wants any questions, here we are, we're putting the paper over, over this, and we're going to, I'm going to put this here, we're going to put it here, and now we're going to, we're going to, as always, pressing a little bit on the spoon the ink goes to the paper, and a little heart here on one side, how does this work? How cute! We're going to lift this here, very carefully, this is like, I don't know, this heart is added here, and it can be done later, you can add, let's say, I don't know, I have a little bit of ink left, I'm going to see if something happens, but let's see. It's not very cool, because then it becomes like a stamp. Exactly, yes. Oh, look! You can do everything, you can cover the whole paper, right? This reminds me a little bit of the, that they are figurines of hearts, or of hands, or of legs, or of animals, and they are made like retables, right? Right. Like markers. Yes. Well, No, the workshop was very nice, Calixto, no, I'm already wanting to do that instead of doing it. Well, it's a pleasure to do this kind of workshops, right? Especially with these techniques, which are very easy to do at home, with your children, this is a very nice process for families. Yes, yes, yes. A bucket with water, paints that don't stain like this, things that are in the house. This is very cool, very cool, very cool. And they do very, very nice things, like, for example, these, that we have here. Of course. All of this. Beautiful. All of this was done today in this workshop. Well, I'm going to see if I experiment and next Friday I'll show you what I did. Yeah, no, no, no, it's very beautiful. So accessible too, so easy and beautiful. And easy and accessible. Look at that. No, thank you very much, Calixto, for your creativity in this program. For those who are watching, this is a program of the Public Library of San Francisco with Calixto Robles. Anything else you want to say before we say goodbye? Well, thank you very much for your attention. You have to keep taking care of us with our masks and washing our hands and thinking positively so that all of our families stay well. Thank you very much. Thank you, Calixto. See you next Friday. Thank you for joining us. See you in the virtual areas of the library, but so that most of the libraries are open so they can come and take books and other materials. Take care. Bye.