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Over the years, many students have suggested that I create a book from my detailed and many-paged instructions for learning Part 1 of my Century Plate Lithography classes and tutorials.

Now you can purchase my instruction book, Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 in printed or E-book formats from Blurb.com and from me directly.

Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 introduces printmakers to a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce high-quality, professional, hand-pulled lithographs without using toxic and petroleum-based materials.

This instruction book

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

Get ready, Jersey for a three-day introduction to Century Plate Lithography at Guttenberg Arts. Learn how to grain, etch, process and print a re-usable Century Plate with non-toxic, bio-based and biodegradable materials!

Friday Evening - February 8, 6:30-9:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday February 9 & 10  10 am-4 pm
Visit  guttenbergarts.org to register

Guttenberg Arts is an incredible community art space equipped with a printshop, ceramics studio and gallery....and is also the home of Paper Crown Press and Carrier Pigeon Magazine. Guttenberg Arts, 6903 Jackson St., Guttenberg NJ 07093 

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

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.