Akua® Printmaking

Join us and artist Susan Rostow as she demonstrates her painterly approach to printmaking using Speedball Akua Inks and a handheld Pin Press. She'll be covering Akua Intaglio Inks, Akua Liquid Pigments and a wide range of Akua printmaking accessories. FREE Demos • No Registration Necessary Stop by, learn a new process, and ask your...more » Learn Printmaking with Akua Inks from the Ink’s Inventor, Susan Rostow–FREE!

Join us and artist Susan Rostow as she demonstrates her painterly approach to printmaking using Speedball Akua Inks and a handheld Pin Press. She'll be covering Akua Intaglio Inks, Akua Liquid Pigments and a wide range of Akua printmaking accessories. FREE Demos • No Registration Necessary Stop by, learn a new process, and ask your...more » Learn Printmaking with Akua Inks from the Ink’s Inventor, Susan Rostow–FREE!

Join us and artist Susan Rostow as she demonstrates her painterly approach to printmaking using Speedball Akua Inks and a handheld Pin Press. She'll be covering Akua Intaglio Inks, Akua Liquid Pigments and a wide range of Akua printmaking accessories. FREE Demos • No Registration Necessary Stop by, learn a new process, and ask your...more » Learn Printmaking with Akua Inks from the Ink’s Inventor, Susan Rostow–FREE!

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 COMPREHENSIVE with MONOTYPE & DRYPOINT WITH ELISE WAGNER

EXPLORING MONOTYPE CLASSES (each session is 6 weeks long) Thursdays, 9:30 – 12:30pm, ALL SKILL LEVELS Medium - Printmaking, Akua Ink, Monotype/Monoprint, Non-toxic Printmaking Supply Fee: $20 per session, cover tools, plate, inks. Basic paper will be furnished. Other papers will be discussed in the first class. Plunge into Monotype! Broaden your artistic horizons with...more » Monotype: Consider the Possibilities with Judy Just

Layers of color on a single printing plate make gorgeous monotypes and monoprints. Learn how to modify Akua Intaglio inks for a myriad of effects. Modifying the viscosities of inks leads to results unachievable any other way. Just as peanut butter will not stick to jelly, a loose ink will reject a stiff ink. This...more » Ink Interaction: Making the Most of Akua Intaglio Inks with Catherine Kernan, guest artist at Susan Rostow’s Brooklyn Studio

Esther S. White Saturday & Sunday, January 11-12, 2020, 10-5 $285 non-member, $255 members $35 materials fee Collagraph: A combination of the words “collage” and “graphic” to describe a print made from a matrix built with collage materials and methods. Collagraphs can be richly textured with a deep emboss and high contrast; they can also...more » Texture and Shape: Collagraph from Found Objects and Recycled Materials with Esther White

Create one of a kind prints or varied editions by combining monotype with safe plate-making methods. Susan Rostow will introduce her latest innovations using Carborundum Gel coated plates in conjunction with the spontaneity of monotype. Demos will include coating and  painting the Carborundum Gel onto plates and drawing into the wet and dry surfaces.  Participants...more » Mixed Media Monoprint with Carborundum Platemaking with Susan Rostow