The Speedball booth will be busy from the conference's start to finish, and will have some of today's most renowned printmakers demonstrating their processes. Come by to talk relief printing with Bill Fick, screen printing with Carlos Hernandez, or learn about Akua Inks' newest product innovation straight from the inventor, Susan Rostow! We'll be giveaway...more » SGCI Printmaking Conference 2018
Play and improvise in this workshop as a means to generate ideas, expand visual vocabulary and put to use accumulated printed material. Collage is an art form all on its own, but it can be a vehicle to conduct experiments too. Collage can encourage visual surprise, allowing for chance moments to loosen up any art...more » Improvisation with Monotype Collage
This two-day workshop will walk you through every step of the encaustic collagraph method that Wagner pioneered. The approach taken to printmaking in this workshop is more from a painter's point of view. Here, you will get the chance to break all the rules of encaustic; using significantly less wax and minimal fusing or layering....more » Encaustic Collagraph Monoprinting at Fountainhead Art Space with Elise Wagner
Ron Pokrasso travels the world to teach printmaking. If you want to immerse yourself in ink for a week, or you need to take a giant leap with your artwork, this is the way to do it. This workshop is designed to bring together the contemporary intaglio platemaking process of Solarplate with monotype and collage...more » Solarplate & Monotype Workshops with Ron Pokrasso
Focused on relief monprinting, participants will use relief blocks to explore the unique properties of Akua Inks. The workshop will cover how to modify inks, offset images, use ghost prints and viscosity rolls, as well as registration techniques and chine colle. INSTRUCTOR: CATHERINE KERNAN TUESDAY, APRIL 17 THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 20 from 10AM-4PM CLASS SIZE...more » Relief Monotype with Catherine Kernan
Discover an approachable, non- toxic process for multiple layer printing! Using a combination of innovative printmaking materials, participants will create printmaking plates using hot wax on Yupo, a synthetic paper support. Wax is painted, stamped, textured, and scraped to produce a high and low plate surface which reveals all the subtleties of mark making in...more » Encaustic Collagraph – Wax, Washi and Yupo with Dorothy Cochran
In a sequenced series of prints, learn the basics of Akua soy-based inks. Starting with traditional techniques of additive, subtractive and trace monotype, move on to registration choices, approaches to color, ghost prints, the use of resists, and viscosity rolling. The emphasis is on modifying the inks and learning their unique characteristics. More experienced participants...more » Printmaking with Akua Inks & Catherine Kernan
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
