Akua® Printmaking

This workshop focuses on mixed media printmaking. Using Akua Inks, participants of all levels will learn monotype through various methods of mixing, modifying, layering inks, using and abusing mark-making tools, and exploring the limits of paper. Instruction beginning at 9am on May 4 will include a wide range of uses for chine colle, collage, and...more » Mixed Media Printmaking in Florence Italy with Ron Pokrasso

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

Workshop conducted by Ron Pokrasso.  Using monotype as the primary technique, you will learn how to incorporate multiple plates and collage elements to create your own richly layered compositions. Learn how to think in layers, where many options become available in one or more impressions. While you have a monotype plate in progress, you may...more » Layered Monotype with a Side of Solarplate

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