Akua® Printmaking

Solarplate etching is an incredibly fast and versatile new way of making non-toxic prints!  A light-sensitive polymer plate is exposed using a small light unit or sunlight.  Artists make prints by exposing the plate through a transparent film with hand-drawn or digital artwork, photographs, or xeroxed images.  This is fairly technical, so it helps if...more » Solarplate Monoprints: Magic with Multiples with Jane Pagliarulo

This two-day semi-private workshop in my Portland studio covers the various steps of the Encaustic Collagraph technique that I pioneered, more from a painter's point of view. You will learn some basic rudiments of encaustic and then we will dive in using various common tools of the medium. A comprehensive demonstration will cover applying the...more » Encaustic Collagraph Monoprinting with Elise Wagner

An intensive exploration of Akua inks and ink modifiers, become familiar with the context, information, and inspiration to create richly layered monotypes and monoprints in series and variations using soy-based, water-miscible Akua inks. This workshop will cover many approaches to monotype, both traditional and experimental, including: trace transfer, reductive and additive, and viscosity rolls. No...more » Bending the Rules: Printmaking with Akua Inks

This two-day semi-private workshop in my Portland studio covers the various steps of the Encaustic Collagraph technique that I pioneered, more from a painter's point of view. You will learn some basic rudiments of encaustic and then we will dive in using various common tools of the medium. A comprehensive demonstration will cover applying the...more » Encaustic Collagraph Monoprinting with Elise Wagner

Learn how to create monotypes with artist and instructor Charlie Ciali.  Use Akua Inks and Modifiers learning a variety of printing techniques.  Participants will be working with plates ranging in size from 8"x10" and smaller. Create multiple original monotypes during this calls with the use of the Akua Pin Press.  Sign up online at artsupplywarehouse.com/catalyst,...more » Printing without a Press with Charlie Ciali

This is a workshop about variety and how to combine different printmaking techniques together to create an exciting image. Working with plexiglass and Yupo (a synthetic paper), artists will learn print processes such encaustic collagraph, drypoint, Akua  Carborundum Gel and monotype. Layering plates to print on top of one another yields great depth to the...more » Multitasking with Printmaking Materials with Dorothy Cochran