Large Prints

Create your image on a plate larger than full- size paper (22”x30”) that extends far beyond your imagination. Develop individual projects in mediums including monotype, drypoint, linocut, collagraph, carborundum, and chine colle. Just bring your passion and explore new idea. Limited seats available

All levels are welcome.

Evening Experimental Printmaking & Mixed Media

This immersive, process-driven class welcomes all levels and invites you to experiment and develop your personal artistic voice. Using monoprinting as a starting point, you’ll explore drawing, painting, collage, and assemblage—combining techniques in open-ended, hands-on sessions.

With individualized guidance, you’ll build skills in line, color, composition, and texture while creating work rooted in your own ideas and experiences.

Bring found materials, personal imagery, or older work to transform. You’ll leave with a series of experimental pieces and a stronger sense of confidence and creative direction.

All levels are welcome.

Cyanotypes

Create images rather than capture them. Expressive possibilities in historic photographic processes offer a compelling alternative to modern digital prints. Fine art papers, hand applied archival emulsions, and the mercurial effects of chemistry and changing light provide surprises and opportunities for the adventurous image maker. Topics will include cyanotypes, Van Dyke brown, bleaching, toning, paper selection, photograms, and the history of photography. Most materials will be provided.

Open to all levels.

White Line Woodcut

White line woodcut was developed in the early 1900’s in Provincetown, MA by a group of artists, including Blanche Lazzell, who wanted an alternative to traditional Japanese woodblock printing. In this class you will learn registration, how to transfer a drawing onto a woodblock, how to carve a linear drawing into the woodblock made of Shina Plywood, and how to print using water base paint. We will use non-toxic watercolor and/or gouache to print color areas. Each color is printed several times to create a transparent or opaque hue. Printing is done with a Baren and/or a tablespoon. This simple technique allows for multiple colors to be printed from one block and the results are painterly and textured. Each student will receive a Sample Pack of Awagami Editioning Papers from Japan which was graciously donated by the Awagami Factory.

For the first class please bring drawings, photos, and other reference material as inspiration for your first print image, 4 x 7 inches.

• 12-inch ruler from a stationary store
• #2 pencil
• Ball point pen
• Ultra-Fine Point Sharpie for drawing ideas
• Tracing paper
• Carbon paper from a stationary store or red carbon paper from McClaine’s
• ¼ inch 8 x 10 Shina Plywood Woodblock from McClaine’s
• V gouge or an inexpensive woodcut tool set from Lee Valley Hardware, Amazon, or McClaine’s

Techniques of Printmaking

Discover the creative potential of printmaking, starting with Monotypes and Drypoint and moving to more complicated techniques of Color Viscosity inking techniques. You’ll learn to combine technical skill and expression into works of art.

This workshop is ideal whether you’re a beginner who wants to understand the process of making a print or someone who wants to improve the technique.

Printmaking Techniques

Discover the creative potential of printmaking, starting with Monotypes and Drypoint and moving to more complicated techniques of Color Viscosity inking techniques.
You’ll learn to combine technical skill and expression into works of art.

This class is ideal whether you’re a beginner who wants to understand the process of making a print or someone who wants to improve the technique.