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Bucolic Printmaking Weekend at Snow Farm

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 18:20

 

I spent a gorgeous three-day weekend teaching a group of very talented artists during my Experimental Printmaking class at Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA June 7-9.  We covered relief, intaglio, monotype, collagraph and chine collet printmaking techniques and experimented with combining some or all of them to create colorful, textural multi-layered prints using non-toxic materials, recycled objects and water-soluble ink. 

What a great way to start the summer!  Stay posted for more photos of the wonderful work my students produced in the Galleries pages on this website.

Photos: Randy

California Dreaming: Winter Century Plate Lithography Workshop in Sunny California

on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 19:39

Non-toxic Century Plate Litho Workshop Part 1 at CREATE Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA

I'm very excited to be introducing West Coast artists in the Coachella Valley to sustainable litho this coming January!  In this workshop students will learn how to grain a reusable Century Plate like a lithographic limestone, prepare a registration maquette and printing paper, transfer images and draw directly on the plates with a variety of media, etch and process with bio-based, biodegradable materials, print on CREATE's etching/relief press, clean and store an inked plate and re-grain a plate for

Century Plate Lithography Workshop Part 2 at EFA-RBPMW

on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 19:22

October 5-7, 2018: I taught a 2.5 day intensive Century Plate Lithography Part 2 class at EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. In this whirlwind weekend workshop we re-visited techniques covered in Part 1 and covered graining for and coating plates with Posi-Coat (the first non-toxic, positive-working photo emulsion), exposed test plates, learned how to create tusche washes and and etch and process them with non-toxic materials and re-visited proofing on RBPMW's Charles Brand litho press.