The format of this five-week series allows time for participants to develop individual print projects. Each day of the workshop begins with a demonstration of a printmaking technique. Learn how to make transfer drawings, drypoint and carved plates that layer well with subtractive and viscosity monotype methods, followed by supported practice time with the materials....more » Tuesday Morning Monotype

Through an intensive exploration of Akua Intaglio inks and ink modifiers become familiar with the context, information, and inspiration to create richly layered monotypes and monoprints in series and variations using soy-based, water-miscible Akua Inks. This workshop will cover many approaches to monotype, both traditional and experimental, including: trace transfer, reductive and additive, and viscosity...more » Take the Plunge: Printmaking with Soy-based Inks with Catherine Kernan

Solarplate etching is an incredibly fast and versatile new way of making non-toxic prints! A light sensitized steel-backed polymer plate is exposed using a small light unit or sunlight. Artists make prints by working on the plate directly with printing inks, or an image can be created by exposing the plate through a transparent film...more » Solarplate with Monoprint: Magic with Multiples! with Barbara Mason

This workshop will introduce a variety of non-toxic intaglio techniques that substitute for the more toxic methods often associated with etching and aquatint. Collagraph, silk aquatint, carborundum aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint, and photopolymer intaglio will all be covered. Working on a small scale, participants will get to explore these varied techniques to better expand their vocabulary...more » Intaglio Alternatives with Meaghan Morrow

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

This workshop is designed to introduce monotype, linoleum block printing, drypoint and collagraph. Each week for 30 minutes, the focus will be on the history of each medium along with demonstration. Thereafter, each participant will have the opportunity to work in the new technique and print their work. This workshop is for novice and experienced...more » Introduction to Printmaking with Meaghan Morrow

Intended as a sequel to the previous weekend workshop, deepen and broaden your expectations by pushing the limits of monotype and monoprint using Akua Intaglio inks. A matrix is only the first step in exploiting opportunities for "controlled accidents" and "calculated spontaneity." Learn to place contiguous colors with viscosity rolls, interrupt one layer with another...more » Bending the Rules: Unorthodox Monotype and Monoprint