COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKING (4-week course)

@Waterfall Arts

Starts April 30 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

$135.00 – $185.00

Do you like to cut, paste, incise, emboss, deboss and impress? Do you like to scatter stencils to see what happens on the other side of the press? Then collagraph could be for you! Using matte board as a base, we will explore two methods for plate-making—“cut and paste” and “impressed”—and learn how to seal them. We will practice intaglio, relief and a la poupee inking methods with water-soluble and oil inks. We will create stencils to add pop and dimension to our prints. Each person will complete at least two plates, or as many as they can manage over the four weeks, and pull their prints as a series and/or as monoprints. Bring reference images, project ideas, or thoughts on alternate plate materials. There will be (fun) homework!

Class content will include: Platemaking with matte board as base, inking, making and using stencils, and pulling prints as series or monoprint. Class dates: April 30, May 7, 14, 21.

About the instructor: Karin Eberhardt came to printmaking through a Waterfall Arts class in 2018 and has never looked back. These days she makes collographs and monoprints based on images from Arctic canoe expeditions, tropical scuba dives and her flower garden. She dabbles in letterpress, artist books and sometimes writes. Before moving to Maine Karin had lots of fun adventures and also some serious mishaps while working in Southeast Asia. She now lives in an old hayfield in Albion, Maine where bobolinks raise their young every summer. In 2021 Karin was lucky to apprentice with printmaking mentor Karin Otto through a grant from the Maine Crafts Association’s Craft Apprenticeship Program.

Waterfall Arts

256 High Street

Belfast, Maine 04915