Level: all
Saturday and Sunday
Nov 3 - Nov 4
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Suzanne Siegel
Fee: $250
SORRY! THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. CALL SUZY AT 203-866-2744 (x-2) if you’d like to see this workshop offered in the Spring. Thanks!
In this workshop students learn how to easily make high quality original prints without a press, and with easy soap and water cleanup. Using acrylic paints and other water-based media, you will learn several methods of printmaking without a press, and learn how to combine these methods for unlimited potential. All methods can be used on lighter weight papers for use in collage or other paper arts, or on heavier printmaking paper as finished art prints. Lightweight fabrics can also be used. Experimenting and mixed media is encouraged! Demonstrations, slide presentation, and individual discussions will help each student to create work using their own aesthetic ideas.
Supply List:
Gelli plate – I will bring these for workshop use, but you may want to own one. I suggest 8×10” or 12×14” size – http://www.dickblick.com/products/gelli-arts-gel-printing-plates/
50 sheets or more of smooth drawing or printmaking paper, watercolor paper, or any smooth 80-100 lb art paper
http://www.dickblick.com/items/10314-1059/
http://www.dickblick.com/items/13651-1009/
box of resume paper, 32 lb. white, if you want to make some lighter weight collage papers
fabrics, 100’% cotton muslin or cotton sheeting, washed and ironed
Golden open matte medium 8 oz. or more – http://www.dickblick.com/items/02013-5005/
Winsor & Newton Artist acrylics – small or large tubes, depending on how quickly you work, but large tubes are more economical.
cadmium lemon yellow (PY35), permanent rose (PV19), ultramarine blue (PB29), and large tube of titanium white (PW6). Alternately you can bring the pigment equivalents of these colors in Golden Heavy Body or fluid acrylics, or Winsor & Newton Galeria acrylics. With this limited palette, we will learn to mix a full range of colors.
Optional colors, yellow ochre (PY43), pyrrole red (PR254), pthalo blue green shade (PB15:3).
You are welcome to bring additional colors, if you would like to.
4” plastic spreader – http://www.dickblick.com/items/40212-1004/
4” brayers – one soft rubber, one hard rubber
http://www.dickblick.com/items/40118-1004/
http://www.dickblick.com/items/40122-1004/
pieces of foam core or stiff cardboard, scraps 6 x 8” or larger,
string, embroidery floss, light & medium weight yarn scraps, fabric scraps
aluminum foil
freezer paper – one roll
artists tape, 1/2”
paper towels or cut up t-shirts/rags
old credit cards
palette knife
pencil and notebook or sketchbook
found materials – dried grasses, bits of lace, fabrics, or trimmings, papers, mesh, anything fairly flat and textural that can be used to create surface interest
wood rolling pin
materials fee to cover some materials supplied by instructor – $5.00