Akua® Printmaking

June 2 - 5 / 10am to 5pm Play, improvise and learn how to print monotype and relief images that move across the page, working either abstractly or figuratively. Draw, compose and collage a series of prints either vertically or horizontally with fluid overlaps to tell a story and create a visual poetic line. Carve...more » The Viewer Becomes a Traveler: Making Scroll Prints with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

Price: $550 workshop cost includes materials (except paper), and dinner + 3 lunches. Modifying and controlling the viscosities of inks yields results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of the ink interactions allows the development of multi-color prints from a single plate, and naturally leads to sequences of related images Understanding the...more » Intention and Surprise: Printmaking with Akua Inks with Catherine Kernan

Summer Mark-Making Lab  Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio June 18 + 19 / 10am to 5pm Participants will explore beautiful drypoint mark-making: Scratch, sand, and abrade the surface of a plastic plate to create an image that can be wiped with tarlatan which allows those burrs and kicked up plate material to hold ink. Petg plastic...more » Summer Mark-Making Lab with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

Price:$999 + Tax Turn high contrast images into relief woodcuts without touching a carving tool. Your images will be pre-carved by a CNC machine and ready to use upon arrival. More blocks can be carved during the workshop, and hand carving can be added. We will ink and print the blocks in a wide variety...more » CNC Intensive Play with Blocks and Inks with Catherine Kernan

Using monotype as a primary mark making technique this 5 day workshop focuses on the use of many plates and collage elements to create richly layered compositions. Rather than trying to compose on just one surface you will learn how to think in layers where many options become available in one or more impressions. While...more » Layers and Plates with Ron Pokrasso

Days during the week, or as scheduled directly with Catherine on another day of the year. Scheduling is done on an individual basis. Price: $650 for a full day on your schedule In the summer of 2020, Catherine replaced group workshops with individualized sessions. The results were so successful and so satisfying that Catherine has continued...more » All Things Akua: Individual Technical Sessions with Catherine Kernan

MONOTYPE PRINTMAKING with SPEEDBALL ART / AKUA INKS, AMANDA BARROW, U.S.A. Artist and AKUA rep Saturday, October 1,  11am - 4pm Íslensk Grafík, Reykjavik, Iceland   http://www.islenskgrafik.is/ 18,000 ISK (cash only), all materials included, no experience necessary with printmaking techniques! Have you ever wanted to make a monotype print? Monotype prints are one-of-a-kind prints, all unique! Imagine painting...more » Monotype Printmaking with AKUA Inks with Amanda Barrow

October 29-30, 10 AM – 5 PM https://www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/painterly-collagraph/ $280 + $35 materials fee In this workshop, students will explore making a collagraph by adhering carborundum grit to Petg plastic plates with rolled or painted acrylic mediums. These plates can hold a wide range of values; from gritty deep dark spaces to washes of light tone....more » Painterly Collagraph with Joyce Silverstone

Tuesdays, November 8-29, 10 AM – 3 PM https://www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/multi-plate-monoprint-lab/ $400 + $40 materials fee For printers with some monotype experience, learn to use permanently marked, glued and scratched substrates to create one-of-a-kind prints. Come to the Zea Mays Printmaking teaching studio for a weekly workshop and enjoy the support of an on-going group while working...more » Multi-Plate Monoprint Lab with Joyce Silverstone