Welcome to 3 Dotted Penguins
Everything starts with a block print in Ali Baecker’s printmaking and surface design studio.
Hello, I'm Ali
Printmaker, surface pattern designer, and educator.
I create hand-carved blocks, block printed repeat patterns, love playing and combining patterns, and make imaginary fishes come to life.
In my classes, I help my students get started with block printing and confident with block-printed repeat patterns. I use my block prints as a basis for surface pattern design, and screenprint them on textiles and other materials.
The Repeat Patterns Deep Dive - a 9 week online course
Do you want to dive deep into the world of block printed repeat patterns? Learn about different designs and standard tessellating shapes, and also improve your block printing skills along the way? Learn how to combine your blocks and how to add new blocks and make your own tessellating shapes? Show your work and learn not only from me but from the entire group of participants? Then the Deep Dive is for you!
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Discover the joy of stamp carving and block printing in Ali’s entry level class “Block Printing Made Easy”
It does not take much to get started with stamp carving and block printing. In this entry-level class, I will walk you step by step through the basics of stamp carving & block printing. By the end of the course, you will have carved your first stamp and block print with ease.
My goal is for you to walk out of this class saying
“Oh, that was much easier than I thought!”.
