Ink, Paper and Intuition : Monotype Printmaking with Phil Garrett
May 28-30• 10a-4p
$450
This 3 day workshop will explore the spontaneous and dynamic medium of monotype printmaking, a very user-friendly and immediate art-making process using Acrylic (Plexi) Plates, Water-soluble inks and Water-soluble drawing materials. The monotype offers a way of working that can be spontaneous, fluid and very painterly. Images can be developed in a relative short space of time and because the plate retains a thin layer of ink after being printed,( the so called ghost image ) it is easy to modify the image and work sequentially.
This process has been used to great effect by a number of contemporary artists including the renowned South Carolina born artist, Jasper Johns.
Sessions will begin with simple reductive methods, single plate techniques and progress through multi-plate prints incorporating collage ( Chine Colle’ ) printed on an intaglio press.
The following printmaking papers ( RIVES BFK, STONEHENGE, ARCHES COVER ) will be needed - Studio 116 will have paper available for purchase. All other materials will be provided.
An apron and a clean folio to transport paper and finished prints are recommended.
Students are encouraged to bring working drawings sized 8x10 and/or 9 x12 to fit the monotype plates.
Three-Day Printmaking Workshop
Phil Garrett, a graduate of The San Francisco Art Institute studied printmaking under Gabor Peterdi and the late Founder of Crown Point Press, Kathan Brown. He is the Founder of King Snake Press and his prints and paintings are in public and private collections in the USA, Europe and Japan. In October 2005, 2006 and 2007 he Lectured and taught workshops on Acrylic Painting Methods in Art Schools in the cities of Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Fukuoka Japan sponsored by Golden Acrylic and Turner company of Osaka. He is the author of the book INSIDE ACRYLICS published by North Light Books in August of 2013.