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Etch-ucation™ is here!  Introducing my new and original Service Mark – Trademark!  My workshops and classes all now fall under the label of Etch-ucation™…having fun while learning how to do etchings and printmaking.
 
     Take the plunge!     Learn in a friendly, knowledgeable, well-equipped environment that welcomes questions and rewards everyone with accomplishments.  Spend your time wisely and well learning something new and fun.                   
    These are NON-TOXIC Printmaking classes that use Waterbased
**new formula**  AKUA-INTAGLIO and AKUA-KOLOR inks!
                  Clean up with soap and water.
 
   *****Millsboro  Art  League**** 
 
February 24, 2007 (Saturday) from 10 until 4 p.m.
Etching Workshop!  Drop me an email to register.  Great way to be introduced to the Printmaking / intaglio etching process.
Quick, easy, friendly class.  Non-toxic chemistry.

Learn MEZZOTINT!  Rocking the plate with a "rocker" tool on copper, burnishing the image, and how to print the mezzotint plate.
     This is the "Real Deal" --Genuine, traditional mezzotint on copper!
 
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       *******Rehoboth Art League *******
 

MEZZOTINT  WORKSHOP - June 15 and 16, 2007

10 - 4 p.m.  in Children's Studio  - Bring Bag Lunch!!

 Rehoboth Art League in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

 

Members:  $100      Non-Members:   $115

Materials fee- payable to instructor:   $25

 

Learn the basics of classic mezzotint printmaking.  We will prepare and hand "rock" copper plates using mezzotint rockers.  Learn how to burnish and scrape the image into the plate. Next, the plate will be inked and printed. 

This class presents the traditional mezzotint printing process on copper plates.  It is helpful to have had some printmaking experience in other processes or some drawing experience.   A lab fee is payable to the instructor at the time of the workshop.

Bring a bag lunch.  A very interesting and fun class. 

Call to Register:  (302)-227-4121

 

 
Coming Soon!!!
Learn Acrylyic Photopolymer Gravure using DuPont "Ultra" ultraviolet light sensitive film.  Students will laminate the etching plate, create artwork on mylar or use a photographic positive image on a transparency, expose the plate, develop the plate, and then print the plate.  This workshop will use the "non-etch" method to produce an intaglio plate on copper or alternate support strata.
 

PHOTOPOLYMER  GRAVURE   WORKSHOP                  

To Be Announced soon- 

Learn the basic techniques of creating an intaglio print using "Ultra" UV sensitive film that has been laminated to a printmaking plate.  Learn how to laminate the film, expose the artwork, develop the plate, then ink and print the plate.  We will be using a 1,000 watt NuArc ultraviolet exposure unit and optical aquatint screen.  

This process allows positive images created on mylar or transparent film to be transferred onto an inkable / printable etching plate using a light-sensitive film in an ultraviolet exposure unit.  Call for materials list.  A lab fee paid to instructor at time of workshop. 

 Bring a bag lunch.  A fascinating and fun class.

You will need to bring 2 projection transparencies with a positive of your artwork measuring 5"x7" .  This can be either a photograph or your drawn art. Drawings on mylar will also work.

 

 

 

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Other ongoing Etching and Monotype Workshops at the Gourmet Gallery in Easton, MD are being scheduled now.  Everyone has a success with these workshops, and several more are planned in 2007.  Let me know if you are interested--Limited number of openings. Yes- it is non-toxic and uses AKUA Kolor waterbased inks.