Saturday-Sunday, December 6-7, 10 AM-5 PM

Registration Deadline: November 22

with Joyce Silverstone

Would you like to breathe new life into your older plastic plates? Spend time working back into your old drypoint and collagraph plates and making them into something new.

In this workshop, students will explore remaking or 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. All the materials will be applied directly to Petg plastic plates with brushes, hand-made stampers, or rolled through cloth or stencil shapes. These plates are open to drypoint additions or modifications that can increase the definition and texture of the reworked image.

Demonstrations will include how to work on Petg plastic plates with drypoint tools and acrylic mediums, tips for inking and wiping techniques, and printing on an etching press. There will be time to practice intaglio wiping methods using Akua Intaglio Inks. Sanding, burnishing, and creating new tonal variations with collagraph methods or drypoint disturbances will be the focus of our experimentations.

If you don’t have used or older plates, that’s okay. Make some plates on the first day that will be subject to change on the second day.

Materials fee not included, participants will be billed at the end of the workshop based on the amount of plates and paper they use.

Joyce Silverstone is a graduate and traveling fellow of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is a core faculty member and mentor at Zea Mays Printmaking and teaches throughout New England. Her current body of work and her workshop teaching centers around layered multiple plate printing using monotype inking methods.

This workshop is currently full. Fill out the form below to be placed on the waiting list.