Demonstrations & Workshops

Join me as I open this new and special class to just two participants in my Portland studio. I will share my very latest techniques and practices in combining print with encaustic. We will push beyond the confines of traditional print and approach it as painters. You will create “full bleed” prints on Encaustiflex  and...more » 4-Day Integration Intensive: Exploring Paper+Print+Encaustic with Elise Wagner

This workshop is designed for monotype participants who would like to delve a little deeper into mark making and color with the support of an on-going class. Play and improvise in a variety of monotype techniques with the addition of some repeatable images on incised Petg drypoint plates. The primary focus of drypoint and color...more » Tuesday Morning Monotype: Play with the Plate with Akua Demo Artist Joyce Silverstone

The class will first focus on monotype printmaking using Akua inks and water soluble crayons. Participants need not have previous experience. If you can push paint around with a brush then you can make unique one of a kind prints. Midway through the session a safer technique to make etchings will be introduced. These can...more » Monotype & Intaglio Printmaking with Anthony Kirk

If you can push paint around with a brush then you can make unique one-of-a-kind prints. The class will first focus on monotype printmaking using Akua inks and water-soluble crayons. Midway through the session, we will begin to use a non-toxic  technique to make etchings. These can be printed on their own or combined with...more » Printmaking at Railyard: Monotype and Intaglio with Anthony Kirk

In this workshop we will create repeatable drypoint plates that can be inked and rolled using color monotype methods.  To warm-up on the first day we will begin with guided mark-making experiences which will serve as the basis for making drypoint lines into plastic plates. These plates will be inked in an intaglio manner and printed...more » Drypoint and Color with Akua Demo Artist Joyce Silverstone

Learn exciting printmaking techniques using non-toxic methods. Multi-colored original prints will be created using methods like relief blocks, image transfers, monotypes, drypoints, and silk aquatints. Most techniques can be printed without a press and replicated at home. (10 meetings, each Tuesday across dates listed)

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