Xerography Printmaking
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2004
Time: 9am – 4:30pm
Instructor: Claudine Hellmuth
Cost: $100

In this class you'll learn how make amazing distressed and aged looking prints using plain old xerox copies! Using oil paints as printing inks, you'll learn how to ink the xerox "plate", print from the plate and layer images on your print. You can print onto a variety of surfaces, wood, fabric, metal papers etc. After we have made our prints we'll experiment with collaging them together to create a finished artwork. This is a technique based class and not a project class.

A few of the items that will be covered during this workshop:
• Using the xerox copy as our plate
• Printmaking without a press
• Using a homemade Pasta Machine press
• Layering printed images to create a collage
• Discovering sources for tools and materials, ideas, tips and discussions!

Supply List:

•  Please bring about 3 tubes of your favorite oil paint colors. Please do not bring the water soluble oil paints as they will not work for printmaking
•  1 bottle of Gum Arabic. You can find this in the painting section of your art supply or crafting store. Make sure you get the liquid version and not the crystals that you have to mix up
•  2 plastic bowls
•  2 new sponges, NOT the kind with the scrubby on one side
•  1 or 2 rubber brayers the soft rubber brayers seem to work better than the hard plastic ones
•  a water spray bottle
•  A lot of b/w Xeroxes of old family photos and images you like. We will be using these images to make prints from so bring quite a few. Once you've printed from the xerox you can't print from it again, so you might want to bring multiples of the same images. Also if you have text or words that you would like to read the "right" way, make sure to reverse it on the copier so when we print with it will read correctly. Please make sure that they are toner Xerox copies and not laser or inkjet prints . Toner copies are the ones from the machines at Kinkos that only print b/w, not from the color machines. ALSO IMPORTANT : the more contrast that your images have the better they will print. Think contrast like a b/w image from a rubber stamp. Hardly any grayscale in the image.
•  One sheet of Rives BFK or other quality printmaking paper. You can find this at your art supply store or at www.dickblick.com and it comes in sheets about 20"x30". We'll tear this down to make our prints on, each sheet yields about 10 small prints.
•  A variety (about 10-15) of paper & small objects to collage with.
•  Paint brushes about 2 or 3, any size. Buy cheap brushes if you don't have these already. I find that the 50 cent house paint brushes from the hardware store work great! Sponge brushes will also work well too.
•  A bottle of your favorite glue
•  Xacto knife or scissors
•  Bring a something to use as a water jar - old cup, old jar or paper cup, etc.
•  Some waxed paper or paper plates to use as a palette for your paints
•  A roll of paper towels as the venue might not have enough for everybody.

To learn more about Claudine please visit her web site at: www.collageartist.com.

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