A fast paced, fun workshop creating beautiful prints without a press! We’ll use Golden OPEN Acrylics on Gelli Plates to create realistic or abstract artistic visions. You’ll learn what makes OPEN so unique and why it is ideally suited for this printing method. Learn how to ink the plates, paint on the plates and of course printing from the plates and preserving them. Monoprinting is a unique method of working in multiple images, incorporating the immediacy of painting with printmaking methods by repeating and reworking personal imagery and symbols. All levels welcome! Free literature and a free sample bag of Golden products! You’ll leave with lots of ideas and the potential of combining the various techniques and other methods of printmaking like an Intaglio Drypoint Etching print with a QoR Watercolor Print or a Drypoint print with a Gelli Plate print along with OPEN and so much more!
All levels of experience welcome.
What to expect:On the first day, we’ll begin by experimenting with Golden’s OPEN Acrylic Paints on Gelli Plates to create monoprinted papers. We will explore several different mark making techniques and generate a plethora of prints to collage.
On the second day, we will forage through our monoprints looking for color, pattern and texture to organize on a 12”x 12”wood substrate. Composing the loose monoprints, we will use Golden Mediums and Gels to create the final work of art.
Artists in this workshop will explore the basics of the mixed media of Oil- Williamsburg Handmade Oil Paint, and Cold wax, powdered pigments, and other materials. We will create abstract layers through textures, lines and colored fields that we can then mine through developing our own personal palimpsest of the history of our own mark making. This rich medium helps generate a space for the artist to create intentional layers and discover the unintentional layers of abstraction. In three days we will cover plenty of information about technique, conversation on concept and composition, along with plenty of time to work.
While some painting experience is preferred, the workshop is open to all levels.
Students will create multiple works on paper and wood panels.
With Lauren Mantecon at Mantecon Studio, Santa Fe , New Mexico
Sep 26-28th, 2019
Intuition is the ability to grasp something immediately, without conscious reasoning. Intention has an aim, a plan.
The spaces between is where the delicate balance between intuition and intention – creating an individual flow of creative momentum. This space is not forced but cultivated.
In this workshop we will explore our deep knowing. We begin by stilling the body through short meditations and guided imagery- gently nudging us to places that hold a deep reservoir of imagery.
No experience necessary- just a curious mind.
For more information: manteconstudio.com
These workshops are any where from 2-4 hours long. The focus on will be on various techniques using Golden Paints: Heavy Body, Fluid, OPEN or High Flow, Mediums Gels and Pastes or QoR Watercolors. Please contact me for more information if you would like to host a mini workshop or check out my calendar to see what is already on my schedule.
