Past Workshop
Making Monotypes:
Hand Printing with Water-Based Inks
Learn to print at home with your own hand press and non-toxic inks using multiple techniques.
William Jung paints on the
monotype plate with Akua Kolor
If you want to master the art and technique of monotype, sign up for "Making Monotypes" and learn from the experts. Gail Ayres, designer of the PinPress, and Susan Rostow, formulator of Akua Water-Based Inks' will co-teach this four-day comprehensive workshop for beginner and advanced printmakers.
Susan Rostow
Trout Fly 1
Reductive Monotype
A wide range of monotype techniques using Akua water-based inks and the PinPress hand roller will be used in a pleasant fume-free environment.
Akua water-based inks are highly pigmented and dry only when they have been printed on an absorbent surface-not when you are working on the plate. What's more, the innovative PinPress hand roller frees you from the hassle and expense of an etching press. Once you learn this creative combination of inks and hand printing, you can repeat this process safely and easily in your own home, studio or classroom.
This workshop covers in great detail the use of Akua Kolor and Akua Intaglio inks for direct painting (light field), subtractive method (dark field), viscosity monotype, color layering, brushwork, rolling up, chine collé, stencils, tools, applicators, color mixing and modifying inks.
Instructors
Susan Rostow has been creating printed sculptural books since the early eighties. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries and museums. She is represented in quite a few public collections including the Library of Congress and has received a Pollack-Krasner Foundation award for printmaking.
Ten years ago, Rostow developed Akua water-based inks for her personal work. Her inks are now being used by printmakers all over the world. She has taught numerous workshops from beginners to master printmakers focusing on making high-quality prints using only the safest materials and methods. For more info on Rostow's techniques and inks, please visit her web site. www.waterbasedinks.com
After a career in computer graphic art, which ranged from illustrating children's stories for educational software to creating an animated cartoon for Intel Corporation, Gail Ayres moved to the woods in Oklahoma to apprentice with her mother Julia (author of Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking) to learn the art of making monotypes.
She quickly became enthralled with the spontaneous and freeing nature of the process, and for the past 8 years has traveled to teach hand printing workshops nationally. www.ayresstudio.com