Masks, stencils and cut outs can add color and form to a print without the need for making additional plates or blocks! Explore additive printmaking with stencils, masks and cutouts. Possibilities can expand enormously when the basic techniques of creating stencils and masks by using simple tools are added to various relief and monotype printmaking practices. We’ll explore how these tools can add new life to your prints.

Using acetate, oil board, tetra pak, papers, scissors and X-acto knives participants will:

Workshop members should bring prints to work on that they consider unfinished or “needing something.” There will also be ample opportunity to make new prints using these techniques.

Annie Silverman has been working with stencils, masks and cut outs in her printmaking practice for over 20 years. Her woodcut and mixed media prints often include unusual color and textural elements that she has created with these techniques.  As a mostly self -taught printmaker, Annie didn’t know that her methods were unusual. She is the proprietor of ABRAZOS PRESS in Somerville, MA and a supporting member of Zea Mays. Her woodcut prints have recently been in THE HAND Magazine, and Pressing Matters.