Instructor: Joyce Silverstone
Monday - Friday
August 12 - 16
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm

Play and improvise in this workshop to explore new ideas and expand your printmaking vocabulary. Learn to make expressive drypoint prints from incised plastic substrates that can be intaglio wiped and / or altered with monotype inking variations. During this workshop we will spend time experimenting with a variety of printing techniques to create beautiful one-of-a-kind prints. We will explore color and shape, texture and line, as well as best ways to combine plates, reuse printed papers, and adhere collage elements. We will be printing with Akua Intaglio Inks, for subtle color layering and crisp transfer of drawn lines. Discover improvisational methods of working drypoint lines into the painterly print. When multiple plates are layered together with stencils or chine colle papers, the possibilities are open-ended and surprising.

Demonstrations will include:
- Drypoint on plastic plates
- Subtractive Monotype and Monotype transfer drawing
- Registration methods for multiple plate printing
- Monotype stencil printing
- Collage
- Chine Colle

Participants will be encouraged to experiment, and take advantage of the Open Studio time in the afternoon to develop individual print projects. Over the course of the workshop, participants will get to know the tools of the studio, the unique qualities of Akua Intaglio Inks, and innovative monotype and monoprint methods.

Joyce  Silverstone is a graduate and traveling fellow of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  An active artist for more than 40 years, she has exhibited her work locally, regionally and internationally in Cuba, London, England, Wales and Ireland. Joyce is affiliated with Zea Mays Printmaking, an artistic community/studio facility dedicated to teaching and practicing the use of environmentally safe materials, where she is a core faculty member and mentor. She was selected to be one of Speedball’s Professional Artist Network Partners, to advance safe and sustainable printmaking techniques.  Joyce’s prints are included in the collection: Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, published by Schiffer.

Her current work can be viewed in the Zea Mays Printmaking Flat File Project, and at :
Joyce Silverstone.com