Instructor: Marina Ancona
Monday - Thursday
June 30 - July 3
9am - 1pm
4 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Weds, 1pm - 4pm

Exploring Texture, Tone, Layers, Ink, and Materials through a matrix

Using a range of new and traditional techniques based in collagraph, carborundum, and monotype processes, artists in this workshop will develop skills while completing a personal and meaningful new body of work. Participants will develop an image, transfer the image to paper, and print with primary emphasis placed on the development of each participant’s aesthetic concerns. The class will begin with group demos covering basic collagraph, carborundum, and oil-based monotype techniques then move to more advanced chine-colle and other processes. We will also be working with multiple plates, second pulls (ghosts), stencils, wet and dry paper and a variety of mixed approaches. Although this workshop’s main focus is on these techniques, artists are welcome to explore their ongoing print projects in the workshop.

All skill levels are welcome. Materials list to come.

COLLAGRAPHY – is a sculptural process of making a matrix plate for printing. This process can be additive by building up thin layers on the surface to create your image with paper, fabric, string, tape, feathers, leaves, etc., and can also be carved into to create intaglio lines or textures that hold ink. The plate/matrix is then sealed and can be inked up in a variety of different ways.

CARBORUNDUM – is a technique used to create gradients of tone with a sandy texture on the matrix/plate and then inked as an intaglio.

MONOTYPE - is the painterly print, this is the most direct form of printmaking. The artist draws, paints, or rolls on a plexi or copper plate. Many techniques can be used, additive, subtractive, etc. to create the image on the plate and then printed.

Marina Ancona is the founder of 10 Grand Press, an independent, collaborative fine art press in Brooklyn and Santa Fe, NM. Ancona’s publishing projects have been exhibited at MoMA, Queens Museum, Kunsthalle Basel, and in the collections of MoMA, and Metropolitan Museum, as well as others. She has collaborated with artists, including Nicole Eisenman, Edgar Heap of Birds, and Harmony Hammond. Ancona is also presently teaching Printmaking at The Cooper Union School of Art and has been awarded numerous residencies, including UCross, Temple University/Rome, and Obracadobra/Oaxaca.

www.10grandpress.com