Individual courses / Courses for a group
We are offering a variety of printmaking workshops for individuals or small groups during the year around. Our instructors, all Master printers with a wealth of knowledge and experience, will be your resources in exploring a range of new techniques. Join us for these exciting courses and explore the ever expanding world of printmaking!
TRADITIONAL INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING on copper plates
ALTERNATIVE INTAGLIO METHODS (non toxic techniques)
WOODCUT / RELIEF PRINTING
MONOPRINTING
ALTERNATIVE LITHOGRAPHY
ARTIST’S BOOKS
TRADITIONAL INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING on copper plates
Intaglio describes any printmaking technique in which the image is produced by incising into the printing plate. Intaglio Printmaking refers to a printing method in which the printing elements are all below the plate surface, having been cut, scratched, engraved, or etched into the plate.
We offer Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Courses in different forms of Intaglio Printmaking.
INDIRECT TECHNIQUES ON COPPER PLATES
DIRECT TECHNIQUES ON COPPER (non toxic methods)
PRINTING PROCESSES
INDIRECT TECHNIQUES ON COPPER PLATES
Hard Ground Etching (Beginners)
Line Drawing
First steps on copper plates
This course is ideal for complete beginners willing to learn step by step the intaglio printmaking process.
3 Days
Aquatint (Basic)
Tonal effects on gray scale
First steps on copper plates
Aquatint is used for creating tones and it’s composed of fine particles of rosin or asphalt.
3 Days
Etching & Aquatint
First steps on copper plates
Learn the basics about line drawing & painterly intaglio printmaking. No previous knowledge is required.
3 Days
Soft Ground Etching
Soft Ground + Ziegler method
You can develop a composition through lines, textures and tones. The artist draws on a piece of paper and when the paper is lifted, it removes the wax where the pencil pressed. We will show you how to make imprints of other things besides a pencil, like leaves or other thin objects with texture.
You will also learn how to print multiple color plates with a perfect registration.
2 Days
Transferring images
Transferring copies
You will learn how to transfer copies (line drawing and high contrast black and white images) onto copper plates.
3 Days
Aquatint Variations
Sugar lift Aquatint
Painterly effects, expressive and dynamic strokes
You can draw straight to the plate by using brushes and other tools, playing with the thickness and fluidity of the line. This method give rise to spontaneous and varied results.
3 Days
Toner aquatint
Get into a wide range of tones, textures and shadows
The toner powder creates a microdot pattern like an irregular grid. This technique consists of manual creation of watercolours with brush, to get a wide range of tones, textures and shadows.
3 Days
White ground aquatint
This course brings us to one of the slopes of the aquatint technique which involves drawing the image on the plate with soap to get variations of tonal values, at once, from the clearest to darkest, playing with wash effects.
5 Days
Complementary courses
Soft Ground
(complementary course to any Intaglio course)
Texture addition
Use the soft ground technique as a complement to make your plates richer.
1 Day
Spit Bite Aquatint
(complementary course to any Aquatint course)
A delicate wash effect
We can show you how to bite the plate unevenly, by creating a soft tone on the background.
1 Day
DIRECT TECHNIQUES ON COPPER (non toxic methods)
Drypoint
Drawing straight on a plate, without acid
First steps on copper plates
Drypoint is created by using a tip to scratch the surface of the metal. Drypoint is done without acid, drawing directly on a copper plate. It requires a certain skill for inking the plate properly.
2 Days
Mezzotint
From solid black to midtones and highlights
Mezzotint is a direct technique where a metal plate is scratched so that it prints solid black. Midtones and highlights are then scraped and burnished back into the plate to create the image.
2 Days
PRINTING PROCESSES
Intaglio printing process (Basic)
This workshop is aimed to learn the professional printing process step by step. Learn the tips from our master printers.
1 Day
Intaglio color printing. Multiple plates registration system (Advanced)
Learn advanced intaglio printing processes, including“Chine collé”, Inking “a la poupée”, Multiplates, Roll-up. Let’s print multiple plates with a perfect registration system.
3 Days
Chine collé
Chine collé can be used in contemporary printmaking
adhering a thin paper under the ink during the printing process. As a result we obtain a richer image in textures and chromatics.
3 Days
ALTERNATIVE INTAGLIO METHODS (non toxic techniques)
Electro-etching
Etching without acid
Learn a less toxic intaglio process where the plate is etched by applying a certain electric voltage.
3 Days
Silkmezzotint
Also called Silk mezzotint or Aquatint mezzotint
It is an alternative method which uses high density plastic plates and a silkscreen mesh to create light images appearing from the dark.
3 Days
Dry Point on Plastic
We will be experimenting with a wide number of manual tools: punches, scrapers and other tools to scratch the surface. You can also use electric tools to create the matrix. We won’t be using acids or chemicals in this course.
Create different variations of the original print combining it with chine-collé.
3 Days
ALTERNATIVE INTAGLIO PROCESSES
Collagraph
A Collagraph print is one made from a plate collaged with different textures. Learn how to get deep blacks with the carborundum technique and apply different mediums to get different tonal values.
Collagraph on Plastic
Drawing and painting onto plexiplates to get lines, tones and textures.
3 Days
Collagraph on Cardboard
Cutting, drawing and painting onto cardboard to obtain lines, tones and textures.
3 Days
Collagraph on Plywood
Drawing and painting onto different kinds of wood to get lines, tones and textures.
3 Days
Photoetching
Photoecthing on Photopolymer plates
Direct to plate system (basic)
Photographic or digital images can be printed directly from the printer to the plate
3 Days
Direct to plate system (advanced)
Multiple plates, color separation (CYMK) and registration system.
5 Days
Manual photoetching process with films
Learn how to transfer drawings and copies to photopolymer plates using films (traditional system).
3 Days
Photoetching on Copper plates
Line drawing
Transfer line drawing images into copper plates. This method allows you to work on the plate afterwards by using traditional intaglio techniques.
3 Days
Photographic images
(coming soon)
Learn how to transfer digital images into copper plates. It also gives you the chance to rework the plate by using traditional intaglio techniques.
3 Days
WOODCUT / RELIEF PRINTING
Woodcut
Woodcut, Linocut and Sharpening the tools
Woodcut is a non toxic printing process. We can show you how to work into various surfaces by using different kinds of tools. You can also work on large scale!
Woodcut (basic)
Also called Xilography
A design is made on a piece of wood and carved with gouges along the grain.
3 Days
Woodcut on large scale
Using mechanical tools to work on large scale.
5 Days
Woodcut (advanced)
Multiple blocks
Carving on multiple blocks and working on large size.
5 Days
Wood engraving
Carving the image against the grain
The line is incised into the woodblock.
3 Days
Reduction woodcut
Carving process on wood or linoleum where the design is produced from one single block.
Color-reduction woodcut offers a way to get multiple colours in a print using only one block. Each color is carved away and then printed.
5 Days
Linocut (basic)
Carving process on linoleum
It is a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum or pvc is used as a matrix.
2 Days
Mokuhanga (basic)
Traditional Japanese Water Based Woodcut
This course is an introduction to the traditional Japanese woodcut process.
3 Days
Mokuhanga with natural pigments
Japanese Water Based Woodcut
Learn the basics of the Japanese woodcut and prepare your own water based inks from earth pigments extracted from the mountains of Roussillon.
You can work on multilayers using the traditional Japanese registration system.
5 Days
Relief printing with stencils
Printing with stencils
Printing with plastic, magnetic or wood shapes
2 Days
Sharpening the tools
(complementary course to any Woodcut course)
Demonstration and individual practice
1 Day
MONOPRINT
Monoprinting
Monoprints
Spontaneous and impulsive paintings to create one unique print or a serie
Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that gives images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. The surface, or matrix, has been traditionally a copper plate, but in contemporary work can be used other materials.
3 Days
Water based monoprints
You will learn how to use water-based materials to create monoprints. This is a non toxic technique as we won’t be using any chemicals.
3 Days
ALTERNATIVE LITHOGRAPHY
Mokulito – Prontoplates –Lithography on aluminum
Planography
Mokulito (complete)
Multilayers, backgrounds, chine collé and woodcut
Discover all the possibilities of the Mokulito process by overlapping woodblocks, painting backgrounds, attaching some colored papers and adding some woodcut marks.
5 Days
Prontoplates
(coming soon)
Learn an alternative Lithography method made on polyester plates.
3 Days
Lithography on aluminum
(coming soon)
Lithography on offset aluminum plates. Images from the laser copy and drawings can be transferred into the already prepared plates.
3 Days
Algrafia
(coming soon)
Learn a less toxic lithographic process reusing offset aluminum plates.
3 days
Mokulito on line Watch the presentation video
Mokulito
OUR ON-LINE COURSES
We are offering online Mokulito classes in english or spanish.
It is an alternative non toxic technique based on the principles of the lithography.
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ARTIST’S BOOKS
Artist’s books
Design of an artist’s book applied to a printmaking project
This course is aimed to explore the concept of a book as a work of art, as a unique work and as a limited edition.
5 Days