Monotypes for Beginners Multi-Generational
Multi-Generational | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
All the basics of print room procedure at your own pace. Learn drawing with a brayer, painting, stenciling, color and layers followed up with creative discussion. Certifies you to safely use the press and print room independently. Beginners welcome.
Week 1: Print room protocols, Simple B&W prints with ghosts
Week 2: Setting press, color mixing, registration
Week 3: More color and registration, resist effects, layering
Week 4: Sampler of different upcycle relief, drypoint techniques, prepping for framing
Provided Supplies: Black and white ink and basic printing paper, newsprint, solvent
Optional only- if you have them, or would like to try:
Printing paper, such as Rives BFK or Lightweight; Arches Cover or Text Wove; Arnheim or Canson Edition. 1 or less is sufficient for each session. Arnheim also works great for Akua inks and is a cheaper alternative
Akua water soluble inks also acceptable, but the demos will be in oil based ink. And they cannot be mixed with oils.
small tubes of color oil based ink (limited amount of donated color inks available to try before you buy)
Small (1-6") soft rubber brayers Example: Speedball (ASLD has some available)
Painting shirt or Apron, Nitrile gloves (ASLD has some aprons and gloves)
Paper towels or cotton rags with a plastic bag to take used ones home with you)
Joe Higgins
I work in monotype and my pictures deal with the vexations of making connections of the spirit. The images are representational, but also conceptual and symbolic. I use distressed landscapes as a metaphor for the uncertainties of life, or interiors to express ineffable messages of the heart. I've shown in many venues including Boulder Art Center, Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, and the Aspen Art Museum . In 1988, I was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Colorado Council on the Arts. http://www.joehigginsmonotypes.com