Akua® Printmaking

In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn how to use digital images or drawings on polyester film to create a carborundum collagraph. This vastly expands the creative possibilities for carborundum printmaking, in which plates are normally created by painting with acrylic medium and adding carborundum grit. This technique uses a light-sensitive film adhered to screenprinting mesh...more » Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop

Just as peanut butter will not stick to jelly, a loose ink will reject a stiff ink. This is true of traditional oil inks as well as newer soy-based Akua Intaglio inks. Taking advantage of the interaction of inks allows the development of multi-color image on a single plate with results that can only be...more » INK INTERACTION: AKUA VISCOSITY with Catherine Kernan

Treat yourself to a fabulous week long printmaking journey in the majestic beauty of coastal northwest Ireland and to the unique opportunity of working at the prestigious Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Limited to 10 participants Workshop The workshop covers a wide range of techniques in the monotype process and continues with chine colle/ collage and the integration...more » A Mixed Media Printmaking Experience in Ireland with Ron Pokrasso

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-coated plated in conjunction with monotype.  Carborundum printmaking is a collagraph process which offers a textured surface to the plate.  Since the carborundum is built up on the plate, the paper...more » Mixed Media Monoprinting with Susan Rostow

This workshop explores drypoint techniques using Akua Inks and Printmaking Plates along with Arnhem Paper. We will learn how to transfer an image onto the plate and how to use tools to create line variation and texture, as well as inking, wiping, and printing. Open to all levels, participants are encouraged to bring in sketches,...more » Drypoint Workshop with Amber Kaiser

Anthony Kirk will be leading an 11 day monotype printmaking residency/workshop from July 21 to July 31 at the Cill Rialaig Foundation, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland which is situated at the most western edge of Europe with individual artists’ housing at one of the most scenic locations in Ireland. Residencies are situated on a winding...more » Summer 2019 Monotype Printmaking Residency/Workshop in Ireland with Anthony Kirk

Using monotype as a primary mark making technique this 5 day workshop focuses on the use of many plates and collage elements to create richly layered compositions. Rather than trying to compose on just one surface you will learn how to think in layers where many options become available in one or more impressions. While...more » Layers and Plates with Ron Pokrasso