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