Printmaking for the Home Studio
It seems this time of year my mind often turns to printmaking. I think perhaps it is the sudden burst of color in this often brown landscape on the eastern slope. Many may be surprised by the number of printmaking techniques you can do at home with little or no toxic chemicals or expensive equipment.
I do not have a fancy printing press and I don’t usually work with oil-based products because of the messy clean-up. The prints shown above and in my printmaking set at Flickr were all created using simple materials and supplies that I had around from my other crafting activities of the past and present or could easily obtain from a local hardware store and/or craft store.
As some of you may know, I’ve taught classes on-line for some time and I’ve scaled way back on them lately. However, if there is a call of at least 7-10 students who are commited to going through any of my six week classes I will offer it on a schedule that works for both of us. Well, a group of talented textile artists have requested a session of Printmaking for the Home Studio this fall. It is the perfect time of year for me to teach this class and I’m looking forward to the extra discussions on how to transfer the techniques to fabric. There are currently 12 students enrolled and they have kindly allowed me to open the class up to anyone else who many be interested.
It is short notice, but it took some time to nail down the dates that would work for everyone. The course will begin on October 11th (a Wednesday, though for all whose payments have cleared access info will be sent out that Monday, the 9th). It is set up such that the first couple of weeks have little specialty supplies needed so even if you are in a rural area and need to order in your supplies for the class you should be able to keep up just fine. Whenever possible I try to offer several options for the supplies so if you are a crafter already you may be able to get through the course with no additional supplies.
This looks to be a fired up group so the session should be very stimulating and for those in the US, we’ll be done around Thanksgiving time so there will be no assignments hanging over your head when you have holiday activities to ready yourself for.
To sign up, please head to the information page on the main site found here. I’m having problems with PayPal buttons working within the blog, but I hope to also get it listed in the shop section of the blog later today, but we’ll have to see…
