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Innovative Approaches to Monotype February 2 & 3
$258.90
Innovative Approaches to Monotype
Weekend workshop
In this special class, Mary will push you to experiment with many different monotype techniques! Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by applying (and removing) inks with a paintbrush or a roller to a polymer plate and then printing the image onto paper. Additional layers can be created by applying another element to the plate and passing it through the press one or more times, resulting in rich, layered, complex prints. Inks can be wiped and scratched off, dotted on, applied or blocked with stencils and more. We invite the experienced and the inexperienced to join us in this creative, wild journey into the nearly infinite possibilities of monotypes…
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, February 2 & 3
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
Instructors: Mary Sundstrom
Textures, Layers and Transparencies: Collagraph and Monotype: Saturday January 26
$129.45
Textures, Layers and Transparencies: Collagraph and Monotype
Saturday January 26
One day workshop
10:00 AM- 5:00 PM (1 hour lunch)
Instructor: Jessica Krichels
Price: $120.00 + tax
Price includes all materials except additional paper
The collagraph is a wonderfully affordable printmaking technique- all you need is mat board, textured items and glue to create fabulous textured prints. In this workshop participants will learn how to make collagraphs that can be printed immediately (no waiting!) and how to ink them using transparency and viscosity techniques. We will print our plates on the press and by hand as well- making this technique easily adaptable to the classroom or a home studio without a press.) We will add monotype and stencils to the mix in aim of creating richly layered, textured, one-of-a-kind prints. No experience necessary!
Intro to Non-toxic Photogravure - February 9 & 10
$258.90
Weekend workshop
Create editions of handmade photo prints or drawings
This versatile technique is perfect for photographers interested in expanding their options for photographic expression and for illustrators who would like to make multiple handmade editions of their drawings. Using Akua Kolor intaglio inks and wonderfully easy to use photosensitive (photopolymer) plates, students will learn to create rich and detailed images from their photographs or drawings. Gravure was introduced in the 1800's as a way to produce photographic prints and has been revived with the availability of non-toxic supplies.
Date: Saturday & Sunday, February 9 & 10, 2019
Time: 10 am – 5 pm (lunch break included)
Cost: $240 + tax, materials included
Instructor: Diane Alire
Monotype Madness Session I: Saturday, January 5, 2019
$43.15
Monotype Madness
Saturday, January 5, 2019
3 Presses!
2 Hours!
Dozens of bottles of ink!
Mounds of brushes, brayers, stamps, stencils, paper, widgets and wing dings!
Infinite Possibilities!!
Roll or brush ink onto a plate! Take some off! Print it! Put more on! Print it again! Our trained printers stand ready to assist as you become a prolific producer of prints during two hours of Monotype Madness. You will use a printing press to transfer painted, stamped, stenciled or drawn designs from a plate to paper and create as many unique images as possible.
Sign up for one (or more!) of our two-hour sessions and experience the liberating and versatile medium of monotype printmaking. We will work with high-quality water-based Akua-Kolor monotype inks. All necessary materials, including expert assistance are included.
Open to all ages - kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Class dates: Saturday, January 5, 2019
Class times:
Session I:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Class fee: $ 40.00 + tax for one adult or $50 for one adult with one child!!!
Instructor: Mary Sundstrom
Monotype Madness Session II: Saturday, January 5, 2019
$43.15
Monotype Madness
Saturday, January 5, 2019
3 Presses!
2 Hours!
Dozens of bottles of ink!
Mounds of brushes, brayers, stamps, stencils, paper, widgets and wing dings!
Infinite Possibilities!!
Roll or brush ink onto a plate! Take some off! Print it! Put more on! Print it again! Our trained printers stand ready to assist as you become a prolific producer of prints during two hours of Monotype Madness. You will use a printing press to transfer painted, stamped, stenciled or drawn designs from a plate to paper and create as many unique images as possible.
Sign up for one (or more!) of our two-hour sessions and experience the liberating and versatile medium of monotype printmaking. We will work with high-quality water-based Akua-Kolor monotype inks. All necessary materials, including expert assistance are included.
Children are welcome to join Session I!
Class dates: Saturday, January 5, 2019
Class times:
Session II:
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Class fee: $ 40.00 + tax
Instructor: Mary Sundstrom
Combining Traditional Printmaking and Digital Transfers: February 23 and 24
$280.48
Combining Traditional Printmaking and Digital Transfers
Janet O'Neal
Saturday and Sunday February 23 and 24
2 day workshop
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Price: 260.00 + tax
(Price includes all materials except additional sheets of paper)
This comprehensive 2 day mixed media printmaking workshop will explore the process of combining digital inkjet transfers and traditional printmaking techniques such as monoprint, drypoint , etching and chine collé,linocut and collagraph. We will also explore printing digital images directly on printmaking paper then printing traditional plates over these images. Each student will learn the alcohol gel transfer process and experiment with creating layered prints by adding images from traditional printmaking plates. These unique layered prints can be further altered with mixed media processes. This integrative process will produce exciting one of a kind prints.
Some knowledge of printmaking and Photoshop helpful. You will need to bring collage materials, drawing materials and photographic digital images on a thumb drive and any printmaking plates you would like to use. We will have monotype plates available.
About the Instructor:
Janet O’Neal is a mixed media artist, fine art photographer, teacher and facilitator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a full time professional of 32 years, she has worked in watercolor, acrylics, collage, assemblage, sculpture, printmaking, photography and ceramics. Her work includes both the abstract and figurative. She is known for her highly colorful and energetic dimensional mixed media abstracts and found object assemblages. She has shown extensively across the U.S., and her fine art photography work has received both national and international awards.
Carborundum Collagraphs: Creating collagraph plates from digital images
$264.29
Weekend Workshop
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, March 16 & 17, 2019
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $245 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn how to use digital images or drawings on polyester film to create a carborundum collagraph. This vastly expands the creative possibilities for carborundum printmaking, in which plates are normally created by painting with acrylic medium and adding carborundum grit.
This technique uses a light-sensitive film adhered to screenprinting mesh (often referred to as “EZ film”). This film is exposed to a positive transparency in a light exposure unit, and any unexposed film is washed out with water. To make the plate, Akua’s Carborundum Gel is pushed through the holes in the exposed mesh onto clear acrylic. Plates are inked up with Akua Intaglio or other suitable ink, and printed on an etching press on dampened paper.
To see this process in action, watch Akua’s video on YouTube and focus on the section titled “Making the Plate” (starts at 1:50):
https://youtu.be/jInRoHwPd-s
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, March 16 & 17, 2019
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $245 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn how to use digital images or drawings on polyester film to create a carborundum collagraph. This vastly expands the creative possibilities for carborundum printmaking, in which plates are normally created by painting with acrylic medium and adding carborundum grit.
This technique uses a light-sensitive film adhered to screenprinting mesh (often referred to as “EZ film”). This film is exposed to a positive transparency in a light exposure unit, and any unexposed film is washed out with water. To make the plate, Akua’s Carborundum Gel is pushed through the holes in the exposed mesh onto clear acrylic. Plates are inked up with Akua Intaglio or other suitable ink, and printed on an etching press on dampened paper.
To see this process in action, watch Akua’s video on YouTube and focus on the section titled “Making the Plate” (starts at 1:50):
https://youtu.be/jInRoHwPd-s
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
New Grounds was one of the first completely non-toxic professional print workshops in the world. In business for more than 20 years, it is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to providing artists with press access, classes, exhibition opportunities and other printmaking related services.
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