Instructor: Liza Folman
Monday - Friday
August 25 - 29
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm

This course will explore the painterly printmaking techniques of drypoint and monotype, which can be used alone or combined. In drypoint the image is scratched into a metal or plastic plate creating lines and tones, and then inked like an etching. These surface marks lend themselves to unique and atmospheric variations in inking, and prints inked that way are considered monoprint drypoints (unique prints using a matrix base). 

Monotypes are unique prints done without a matrix base, with ink applied and manipulated directly on a plastic plate. We will explore monotype techniques including subtractive, additive, surface rolls, stencils, chine collé and watercolor. These techniques can pair beautifully with drypoint, and students will be encouraged to add monotype elements to their drypoint images, creating endless monoprint variations. Students with or without previous experience in either of these techniques are welcome.

Liza Folman is Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at Lesley Art + Design, in Cambridge, MA, where she taught printmaking, drawing and watercolor for thirty years.  She has also taught at MassArt, Boston University and FAWC.  She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris, as well as artist’s residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Scuola Internaztionale di Grafica in Venice, and MICA in Brittany. Liza exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her prints are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the De Cordova Museum, the Boston Public Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.  Her monotypes were featured in the recently published book Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotypes and Monoprints.
lizafolman.com 

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