Courses on Request

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

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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


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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

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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

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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 – ProntoplatesLithography 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.
For further information, please contact:

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