Saturdays, December 6 & 13, 10 AM-2 PM EST

Registration Deadline: December 5

with Amaryllis Siniossoglou

Do you love to carve, but have trouble with the harder surfaces of wood and linoleum? During this two-day workshop, participants will develop their individual direction in image-making exploring mark making and relief techniques on soft carving material. In the first session, participants will be guided on how to translate a drawing/image into black and white shapes, how to create a wide range of values within the image and approach a variety of marks, how to  transfer the image on the block and carve. The second session a week later will be focused on how to ink, register and print a block.

Basic color mixing, the use of transparency, and paper choices will be addressed. Participants will have a week between sessions to complete the carving of the blocks.

The workshop includes demonstrations, hands-on work time and group sharing.

No press is needed.

Basic materials required include:

• Soft carving x 2 blocks
• Akua relief ink ( one or more colors) or other relief printmaking inks
• printing paper
• misc. tools

About the Instructor:

Amaryllis Siniossoglou is a tenured full-time faculty at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Worcester State University. As an artist she actively shows nationally and internationally. Her artwork involves printmaking, book arts and digital media, painting and sculpture, and is included in museums and collections. She speaks English, French, Italian and Greek and lives in Cambridge, MA where she runs a print studio.

Online workshops are offered on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can.