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Encaustic Explorations: Emanations from the Deep Imagination
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3rd, 5-8pm
Show runs May 3rd - May 31st
Show runs May 3rd - May 31st
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Current Exhibitions:
"Footnote"
Special Guest Artist, Lihie Talmor
Winner of the 5th International Print Exhibition
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Stunning prints combining etching and photopolymer processes
Show Extended through May 31st, 2019
Upcoming classes
Intensive Printmaking Workshop for Teens! NEW! June 10 - 14
$237.33
Hey young artists! Do you like to draw? Paint? You can do it all and more with printmaking! Join us for a week of afternoons exploring the fabulous art medium of printmaking. We will try a new technique each day, building on skills and knowledge over the course of a week. We will focus also on personal exploration of ideas, themes and artistic expression. Get ready to try monotype (painterly prints), collagraph (fun textured prints) drypoint etching (like drawings), relief prints (like stamps) and more. All levels of experience are welcome, as participants will receive personalized one on one attention. An interest in making art and learning new things and ability to focus on making art are recommended.
Instructor: Jessica Krichels
Dates: June 10- 14, 1:00 pm- 5:00pm
Cost: $220 + tax (includes most materials!)
Ages 13- 18
Class size- max 8
Jessica Krichels has been an artist and teacher for over 20 years. She teaches studio art at Atrisco Heritage High School and is a printmaker and co-owner of Remarque Print Workshop.
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Experiments in Layers, Mark Making and More! Mixed media painting on pellon with muralist Roberto Salas - June 8, 2019
$129.45
Instructor: Roberto Salas
Dates: June 8, 10:00 am- 5:00pm
Cost: $120 + tax (includes most materials!)
Invented in 1948, pellon is a nonwoven interfacing that is lightweight, flexible and durable. It provides an excellent, versatile and inexpensive material for painting on that can be used on a small personal scale or monumental scale for making murals.
Pellon can be worked in the studio and then applied and sealed on walls with a gel medium. When working large scale this allows an artist to work in the studio and then apply the painted pellon to the desired wall. On a small scale pellon can be mounted on boards or panels of various shapes or hung directly on walls for gallery exhibition.
In this workshop we will learn surface preparations for the pellon and work in a multi-media fashion with materials such as gesso, acrylic paint, coffee staining and charcoal using stencils and collage to create multi-layered pieces.
Roberto is an internationally recognized muralist and painter. He has worked on projects all over the world and is currently based in San Diego and El Paso. Learn more at http://robertosalas.com/about.htm
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Carborundum Collagraphs: Creating collagraph plates from digital images - June 15-16
$264.30
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Weekend Workshop
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, June 15-16, 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):
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
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Photo-Encaustic Workshop - October 26 - 27, 2019
$258.90
Photo-Encaustic
Saturday & Sunday, October 26 - 27, 2019
Two Day Workshop
The process of adding melted beeswax and resin to photographs produces a rich alchemy of color and texture to create something new and often unexpected. Learn the basics of photo mounting on wood, wax application, pigments, collage, textures and more to three small panels per day. This course will cover studio basics, paper choices, encaustic pouring and painting, and other methods such as glazing, scraping, and photocopy transfer. Proper tools, studio methods and safety procedures will be discussed. All levels welcome.
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, October 26 - 27, 2019
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $ 240 + tax, all paper and materials will be supplied
Instructor: Carol Mell, Photographer
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Take the Plunge! Deep Explorations in Ink Interaction: Monotype and Monoprint with Akua Soy-based Inks - August 5th-7th
$496.23
**Sold Out**
3-day workshop with Catherine Kernan
Instructor: Catherine Kernan
Class Dates: Monday - Wednesday August 5th-7th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: 460.00 + tax
Through an intensive exploration of inks and ink modifiers, this workshop offers the context, information, and inspiration to create richly layered monotypes and monoprints, both as singles and in series using soy-based Akua inks. This workshop will focus on exploiting the possibilities of viscosity techniques to yield results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of ink interactions and developing multi-color prints from layering inks on a single plate. It will cover many approaches, both traditional and experimental, including: trace transfer, reductive, additive, and viscosity monotype on a variety of matrices. We will explore resists as stencils and add dimension through relief blocks, stamps, texture tools and stencils. No toxic fumes and extended workability of the inks make it a liberating experience.
Artists new to printmaking and Akua Inks, as well as experienced printmakers are welcome. Extensive notes on printmaking topics and techniques will be available for a small additional cost.
Catherine Kernan is a nationally known printmaker specializing in the use of the non-toxic Akua Inks.
Special Opportunity with this class: Extend your experience of Catherine Kernan's workshop with two days of studio time (August 8th and 9th) in our fully equipped studio. $200.00
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Create rich, textured prints without a press with Mokuhanga Printmaking! - July 20
$129.45
Mokuhanga Printmaking
One-Day Workshop
Saturday July 20
This class will be given by master printmaker Dan Noyes. It is a comprehensive introduction to Japanese Mokuhanga printing. This type of printing involves relief printing, stencil printing, and wood grain printing.
The paper used is washi and rice paper-thin Asian paper known for unique texture.
Japanese Mokuhanga printing is one of the oldest types of printmaking combing relief, stencils and wood grain. Images are transferred from the carved block to both sides of uniquely textured Asian washi paper using a hand-held tool called a baren. The earliest types of prints in China using this method were Buddhist prints; Mokuhanga printing was used to substitute laborious copying of texts and images.
Class date: Saturday, July 20, 2018
Class time: 10 AM- 5 PM (lunch break included)
Class fee: $120 + tax, all materials will be supplied
Instructor: Dan Noyes
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Color Theory Workshop - July 13
$134.84
Applied Color Theory - One Day Workshop
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Mixing color is one of the most important tools for any artist.
In the morning, students will receive a comprehensive presentation on color which covers:
- The complements
- Warm versus cool
- Emotional impact of color as it pertains to various cultures
- Using color to create space
- Using color to create light
- Using color to create mood
- Spatial manipulation by color in 2-D design
In the afternoon, students will learn to accurately mix any color, including the warm or cool version of it. Students will also be introduced to “Cezanne grays", what they are, how to get them, and how to use them.
Class date: Saturday, July 13, 2019
Class time: 9 AM – 4 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $125 + tax, all materials will be supplied
Instructor: Joyce Shupe
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Photography & Etching as Sites of Interpretation and Deviation - September 13th - 15th
$382.96
Instructor: Lihie Talmor, Winner of the 5th Annual International Print Exhibition
Three-day Workshop
http://www.talmorlihie.com/
Class Date: Friday, Saturday & Sunday September 13th - 15th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: $355.00 + tax
This is a special chance to work with guest teacher Lihie Talmor. Talmor is an Israeli artist who divides her time between Israel and Venezuela and has shown her bold, thought-provoking work throughout the world. This comprehensive two-day workshop, open to artists of all experience levels, will explore how a printed image can shift from the photographic to the graphic mode and what can be gained from their combination. By working with two plates—the first etched from the projection of a photograph and the second made through traditional etching techniques, we will create a composite image that brings together photography’s power to record and etching’s power to invent. Participants should bring a digital file of a photographic image with which they wish to work. Knowledge of copper-plate etching techniques is useful, but not necessary.
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Explorations in Relief Printing: Introduction to the Reductive Woodcut - June 29 & 30
$258.90
Explorations in Relief Printing: Introduction to the Reductive Woodcut
Instructor: Hollis Moore
Weekend Workshop
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, June 29 & 30, 2019
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.
In this workshop Hollis Moore will teach participants how to plan, carve, and edition a multi-layered reductive woodcut print. Participants will learn methods for mixing and printing transparent and opaque layers of ink. Some color theory will be introduced.
Traditional color woodcuts are printed from separate blocks, one created for each color. In reduction woodcut the colors are all printed from one block, each color in succession (usually light to dark), as the original surface of the block is cut away or reduced. By the time the final image accumulates the entire woodblock is reduced and can no longer be reprinted. This produces rich, layered, painterly prints.See our
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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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