Oh What a Relief! Thursday 9 - 4:30 $145 Laura Ryan
Student Level: Beginners to Advanced
Type of Workshop: Process - you'll go home with prints and collograph plates
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Collographs, linocuts and wood cuts! If you’ve never experienced printmaking with a ‘real’ etching press, this is the perfect workshop for you. You will create a collograph which is a technique using collage and glue, which allows you to transfer images from a printing plate to a paper substrate. You will learn relief printing basics: which paper and inks to use and how to ‘develop’ a plate full of texture and interest. As well as using a press you will use a barren, leather roller and a small tabletop press. There’s always a bit of a ‘surprise’ element when printmaking that is very intriguing. The resulting prints can be used in art journals, encaustics and of course as a beautiful piece of stand-alone art. You will leave this workshop with a handful of prints, several collograph plates to use at home and a new addiction….. printmaking! If you have a lino or woodcut, please feel free to bring it.
Supply fee of $15 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
- Collograph base plates (9”x12” )
- Glue
- Assorted materials to build the plate
- Sealer for plate (shellac or gloss medium)
- Etching press, tabletop press, rollers and barens for printing plate
- Relief printmaking paper
- Tartlan for preparing plate for printing
Students should bring:
- 4” brayers
- Scissors and Exacto knife
- 1 sheet BFK paper 22”x30” (or purchase at workshop. You may want to tear down to 4 ea 11”x15” ahead of time.)
- Spray bottle for water
- 1 jar heavy gel medium
- Soft gel medium
- Heavy modeling paste
- Palette knife
- Paint brushes (cheapies ok)
- **3- 6 tubes water soluble relief printmaking ink (Speedball set available. You can share with another person for the ink as there will be plenty for at least two people.)
- Lace, dollies, stencils, thread , textured papers , buttons, baby clothes, gloves, ribbon, sequin waste, flat jewerly…..anything flat capable of squeezing through the rollers of the press. If an item is not flat, try running over it with your car. Place the item between two wood panels and smash it. I smashed a jello mold this way.
** Please contact me prior to purchasing the ink. My email address is below.
Questions? Email Laura at art4today@gmail.com
Website: http://www.eye-poppers.blogspot.com