Time to come out of hibernation!!!
Indulge in some creative fun this spring!
Workshop Location: Linda's studio in the Beach area of Toronto.
To register, please call 416-698-3039 or through "contact" on this site.
Artists Days: 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Tuesday, March 27th, Tuesday, April 10th, Wednesday, April 11th, Sunday, April 22nd.
Artists Days are open studio days for former students able to work independently with some supervision. $50 per day includes 4 sheets of paper and all required materials and equipment to create Screen Monoprints. (A 3 day pass is available for $135.) Maximum of 4 artists per day.
Screen Monoprinting Plus 2 Day workshop: Weekend Workshop: Saturday April 14th and Sunday, April 15th. Weekday Workshop: Tuesday, April 24th and Wednesday, April 25th.
Painterly, colourful and transparent monoprints create a wonderful compliment to the strong linear effect of lino block prints.
$170 includes all required materials. Six monoprints will be created. Maximum 4 students.
One day Screen Monoprinting Workshop: Weekday Workshop: Wednesday, March 28th, and Weekend Workshop: Saturday, April 21st.
This workshop allows artists to focus on screen monoprints. Fun and easy for beginners, yet the layers of possibilities give a creative challenge to the experienced artist.
$85 includes all required supplies and equipment. Students create 3 prints. Maximum 4 students.
Collagraph Workshop: Wednesday, April 18th. 10 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
This fun printmaking technique allows artists to create multi-coloured prints in a cut and paste simple manner!
$85 includes all required materials to create 4 prints. 6 students maximum.
Relief Printing Workshop: Wednesday, April 4th. 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
$50 includes a medium hard lino material that is easy to cut yet allows printing on the press, and all supplies required to print 4 prints on Japanese paper.Transferring an image onto a plate, and how to create a reduction print is also covered. 6 students maximum.
Styrofoam Relief Printing Workshop: Friday, April 27th, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
This extremely simple and fun workshop will let you play like a child. Carve into insulating Styrofoam with a large nail and create textures with gadgets!
$50 includes all materials to make 4 multicoloured prints and a glass of wine! 6 student maximum.
Workshop Descriptions:
All workshops have been developed after many years experience to be as simple as possible, yet creativly challenging! These workshops will prove printmaking can be spontaneous and freeing!
Screen Monoprinting one day workshop. Weekday Workshop: Wednesday, March 28th, and Weekend Workshop: Saturday, April 21st.
The painterly printmaking technique that is so satisfying to both painter and printmaker. See full description below.
This one day workshop allows the artist to totally explore and experiment with this so simple and fun screen monoprinting process. Ideal for first time students and as an expansion of past creations for the returning student.
Styrofoam Reduction Prints: Friday, April 27th, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
This workshop is a great introduction to printmaking. It is the same technique I use with very young children. This is pure fun and will reawaken the child in you! Using a chunky nail students will carve an image into soft insulating Styrofoam. They will use a printmaking brayer, to print their plate in one colour on black paper.
The plate will be cleaned off, then fun gadgets will be used to crate textures and patterns on the plate. Three colours will be rolled onto the plate, and it will be registered directly over the first print, creating a four colour, multi-layered very spectacular print!
Collagraph Workshop: Wednesday, April 18th. 10 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
This form of printmaking takes us back to our “cut and paste” kindergarten days!
With lino cuts, you are digging into the material and the area left uncut takes the ink. With collagraphs, (The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue and graph, meaning the activity of drawing. Wikipedia.) you built the plate up with cut cardboard and other materials. Where the brayer can’t ink, you get your lines. We will use black paper as I have found this to be most dramatic.
A first layer in a cool colour will be printed, then multiple colours will be spot rolled onto the plate. This will be registered over the first plate to create a spectacular print!
Screen Monoprinting Plus: Weekend Workshop: Saturday April 14thand Sunday, April 15th. Weekday Workshop: Tuesday, April 24th and Wednesday, April 25th.
Screen monoprinting is an innovative and unique printmaking technique. Brilliant fabric dye is painted onto a silk screen in a spontaneous and fluid manner. Once dry, a squeegee is used to pull clear medium over the screen.
The colours and unique surface textures are spectacular and cannot be achieved through painting directly on paper.
This magical process satisfies both the painter and the printmaker. Those intimidated by the technical aspect of printmaking, find the simplicity in screen monoprinting a delightful surprise, yet, the innumerable possibilities are challenging to the seasoned artist.
Painting on the fabric of the screen forces you to expect the unexpected, to relax around the painting, enjoy the process and be delighted by the finished results that are not revealed until the last moment.
To add another dimension to the workshop, students will carve into a butter soft material to create a relief print. This act amazingly transforms the artist into a relaxed, focused, zen state. Combining the fluid, painterly monoprints, with the strong lines of a relief print, makes for a unique juxtaposition of printmaking styles.
All you need to bring to the workshop is the desire to play and be as free as a child again!
Students should bring a smock, a folder for your prints, and bring a lunch.
Artists Days: 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Tuesday, March 27th, Tuesday, April 10th, Wednesday, April 11th, Sunday, April 22nd.
These open studio days are for artists who have taken the screen monopritning workshops multiple times and can work independantly with no supervision. I will be available should the need arise, but this is not for those who need a total refresher.
Lino Reduction Prints: (Not offered at this time.)
This is a workshop geared to those with relief printing experience, as the process is more complex than most. Participants will design an image and learn how to reverse it and transfer it onto a plate.
The areas of the print to print white will be carved first, and printed in a light colour.Careful registration is essential for this technique. The plate will be cleaned, and more carving done in the areas to be a mid colour. This will be registered over the first print.
Finally, all will be cut from the plate other than the dark colour. This will be printed on top of the bottom two to complete the 3 colour print.
Students may use the press for their printing.
Wondercut, a material ordered from the U.S. will be used to allow using the press, and sharper lines than with Softolium.
Re-Acquaint Workshop: (Not offered at this time.)
This workshop is geared to former students who either have purchased or wish to purchase materials to work on your own.
Set up procedures will be thoroughly explained, a material list provided, and information as to where all materials can be purchased discussed. Mixing of paste, dyes and colours reviewed, and all attending will create one print.
Reduction Lino Print:
Students Collagraphs:
Photos:
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Materials provided for all Painterly Printmaking, Screen Monoprinting and lino block printing workshops and Courses:
Use of screen, squeegees, and screen printing area. 6 sheets of Maidenstone cotton rag printmaking paper, wall paper paste to print with, use of about 60 brushes, sponges and other textural materials, paper towels, individual pallets and ice cube trays for fabric dye, rubber gloves, 10 colours of fabric dye, squirt bottles, newsprint paper for paper stencils, lino-ink , (several colours supplied), use of lino cutting tools, 1 per student, brayers, plexi glass plates, Softolium carving material, a 4 by 6 inch piece per student, rags. Also, books and reference materials are supplied. The undivided attention of the instructor!
Connie, pulling a screen monoprint.
Students Screen Monoprint and work space.
Children's Styrofoam Reduction Print:
