Image-Making through Monotype and Chine-collé

Layered Impressions
Image-Making through Monotype and Chine-collé

Professor: Anthony Tung Ning Huang

5 – day workshop

Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm

Dates: June 7-11, 2027

Arrival date: on Sunday June 6, between 6 pm-8pm.

Departure date: on Friday June 11, at 5 pm.

6-10 participants

Location

At Art Print Residence, located in Arenys de Munt, near Barcelona.

Workshop Description

This five-day workshop explores the meeting of Eastern and Western approaches to printmaking through press-free hand-printed monotype, collage, and chine-collé. Combining the spontaneity of Western monotype with the material qualities of Eastern papers, participants will explore how prints can be created, fragmented, layered, and reconstructed into new images.

The workshop begins with a short field observation session, gathering visual references from the surrounding landscape through sketches, photographs, textures, shapes, and other details that catch our attention. Back in the studio, participants will translate these observations into a growing collection of monotypes, printed entirely by hand without the use of a press.

Rather than treating each monotype as a finished work, participants will use these prints as material for further image-making. Over the following days, prints will be cut, torn, edited, rearranged, and recombined through collage, with particular attention to scale, repetition, transparency, negative space, and layering.

Working with Eastern papers, participants will explore how the character and translucency of the paper can become an active part of the image. Chine-collé will then bring these printed fragments and layers together into more resolved compositions.

Throughout the workshop, participants will move continuously between printing and composing—responding to what emerges, printing new elements when needed, and allowing images to develop gradually through the process.

Open to different levels of printmaking experience, the workshop emphasizes experimentation, material sensitivity, and the development of a personal visual language.

Five-Day Programme

Day 1 — Observe, Collect & Print

We will begin with an introduction to the workshop, followed by a field observation session in the surrounding landscape. Participants will gather visual references through photographs, sketches, textures, shapes, patterns, and other details. Back in the studio, we will begin exploring press-free hand-printed monotype techniques on Eastern papers and start building a collection of printed material.

Day 2 — Experiment & Build

Participants will continue exploring hand-printed monotype through additive and subtractive methods, masking, layering, transparency, ghost images, and variations in scale and value. The focus will be on experimentation and developing a rich visual library rather than producing individual finished monotypes.

Day 3 — Print, Fragment & Compose

Monotype printing will continue while participants begin cutting, tearing, cropping, and isolating elements from their dried prints. Through collage and temporary arrangements, we will explore composition, scale, repetition, rhythm, transparency, and negative space. Participants can move back and forth between composing and printing as their images develop.

Day 4 — Layer & Chine-collé

Participants will explore the qualities of Eastern papers and their possibilities for layering, transparency, and image construction. Chine-collé will be introduced as a way of bringing printed fragments, paper, and composition together into more resolved works.

Day 5 — Respond, Refine & Resolve

The final day will focus on continued chine-collé, editing, layering, and recomposition. Participants will respond to the results of the process and aim to develop a small body of approximately 3–5 finished layered works. We will conclude with a group discussion and sharing of the works and experiments produced throughout the week.

Accommodation

The accommodation at the residency will be in shared rooms* and it is included on the price of the course. Meals and drinks are not included. 

* Individual accommodation is also available at the hotel in the village (not in the residency). Please, note the price of the pack will be slightly higher for that option.

Booking

We offer an all-inclusive package covering tuition, materials, and shared accommodation at the residency for a total cost of €1,800.

Lodging

Shared room (at the residency) – €1,800

Individual room (at the hotel) – €2,000

What we provide:

• Shared accommodation in the apartment enclosed to the studio (or private accommodation at the hotel).
• A peaceful, bright, and charming, cozy atelier.
• Space in the studio to create.
• Tools and materials listed below.

Materials provided to artists:

Paper

• 5 full sheets of lightweight Eastern paper per participant for hand-printed monotype, collage, and chine-collé. 
• 2 full sheets of heavyweight Western printmaking paper per participant, to serve as the base paper beneath the printed Eastern papers.

Hand-Printed Monotype

• Oil-based printmaking inks — a basic range of colors, black, white, and transparent base
• Sets Well Compound
• Monotype compound medium 
• Plexiglass
• Rollers/brayers
• Ink knives and ink-mixing surfaces
• Newsprint and standard studio cleaning materials

Collage & Composition

• Cutting mats
• Precision craft/X-Acto knives
• Scissors
• Metal rulers
• Pencils
• Low-tack tape for temporarily positioning compositions

Chine-collé

• Nori Paste
• Soft brushes in assorted sizes
• Short, stiff-bristle brushes in assorted sizes
• Acetate sheets or a similar smooth plastic material
• Spray bottles
• Clean, flat working surfaces

Apron

Additional Materials available for purchase:

Eastern papers (Subject to availability)

• Kozo Natural Select, Kitakata Gampi, Mingeshi, Kizuki, Mulberry, Tengucho, Gampi, Okawara, Arakaji, Hosokawa, Mitsumata, Seikosen…
• Mingeshi and Tengucho Colored papers

Western papers

• Hahnemühle, Arches, BFK, Somerset, Fabriano, Magnani…

What should participants bring?

Participants can bring a sketchbook, preferred drawing materials, and a phone or camera for the field observation session.

About the Teacher

EDUCATION

2024 Master of Fine Arts – Studio Art (Printmaking,) University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

2021 Master of Fine Arts – Illustration, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2014 Bachelor of Arts – Journalism, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026   Soft Ruins, Cedars Union, Dallas, TX

2025   Before it Disappears, Dallas College Cedar Valley Campus Galleries, Dallas, TX

            Ex(spiro), Hyphen Gallery, Dallas, TX

2024   Soften the Glare, Unify as Dust 和光同塵, The Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, Knoxville, TN

            Flow, Link & Pin Gallery, Austin, TX (Invited by 2024 PrintEXPO, PrintAustin)

2023   Ink Motion, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN

2022   Nan Shan 南山 , Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN

2021   The Reckless Blossoms of Weeds, Cedar House Gallery, Savannah, GA

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 EternalCycles,Manifest Gallery, Cincinatti, OH (with Ronna Harris)

2024 Memories,TripsandMappings, Galeria Concrete, Wrocław, Poland (with Chloe Wack)

2023 Green Room, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN (with Megan Wolfkill) 

2022 SilkMemorial, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN (with Haley Takahashi)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 TheJourneyNorth:Hope,LaborandCulture, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas,TX 2025 showintheBoe, Cedars Union, Dallas, TX

HyperlocalV, Atelier Gallery, Dallas, TX

imPRESSivePrintmakingExhibition, Frisco Discovery Center Frisco, TX

Apophenia, ICOSA, Austin, TX

TheWindatDawn, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2024 Making a Good Impression: Art on Paper from Japan, China, and Korea, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY

DNSPE2024PrintSymposiumPrintExchange, Bradbury Art Museum,  Jonesboro  2023 Flow: Mastering a Brushstroke, Lilienthal Art Gallery, Knoxville, TN

SeriedeExhibicionesInmersivas:CiclosGráficos, Espacio Emergente Bayamón, Puerto Rico Green Olive Arts Anniversary Exhibition, Green Olive Arts, Tetouan, Morocco Protégé, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2022 ContemporaryPrintmaking, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY

ItTakesTen, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN

OpenStudioExhibition, Green Olive Arts, Tetouan, Morocco

RefiectedNarratives, TVUUC Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Emergence:ASurveyofSoutheasternStudioPrograms, The Bascom, Highlands, NC

WILDLIFE, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles,CA 2021 New in Town, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

UTKPrintmakingSummerShowcaseExhibition, University of Tennessee – Knoxville,

Knoxville, TN

Recollections, Bend Gallery, Chicago, IL

2020 2020SmallWorks, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

PortCityReview, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 2019 Works on Paper, Mount Kisco Arts Council, Mount Kisco, NY SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2025 AwagamiInternationalMiniaturePrintExhibition, Awa Japanese Handmade Paper

Museum, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan

MiniGems, Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY InkandImpressions, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT In the Wild, Auer Center for Arts & Culture, Fort Wayne IN

2024 MiniGems, Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY

SAGA89thAnnualMembersExhibition, The Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, NY

ArtsintheAirport, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN

TheMiniPrintInternational, Menino Arts Center in Hyde Park, Boston, MA

ThePositive/Negative39NationalJuriedArtExhibition, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN

NationalJuriedExhibitionof2024, The Emporium Center, Knoxville, TN

77th Annual Student Art Competition, The Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, Knoxville, TN

2023 SECAC2023Members’Exhibition,Try-Me Gallery, Richmond, VA

TheMiniPrintInternational, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY

ArtsintheAirport, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN

ArtandEcology, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

76thAnnualStudentArtCompetition, The Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture,

Knoxville, TN

2023IMPRESSIONS, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ

2023DeltaNationalSmallPrintsExhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR (Cultural Steward Purchase Award dedicated to the Windgate Foundation)

2022 10thAnnualInternationalJuriedPrintExhibition, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM

The2022CCANJuriedExhibition, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX (First Place in Printmaking)

IMPRINT, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

SixtySquareInchesXX, Purdue Galleries, West Lafayette, IN

DeltaNationalSmallPrintsExhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR

WILDERNESS, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Undomesticated, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA

ArtsintheAirport, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN (Best of Show)

2021 AwagamiInternationalMiniaturePrintExhibition, Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan

BLOOM:TheVigorofNature, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

AlexanderInk, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

AWARDS

2025 Honorable Mention, Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan

2024 The Blick Art Materials Award, SAGA’s 89th Annual Members Exhibition, The Arts Center in Governors Island, NY

2023 Cultural Steward Purchase Award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, AR

2022 First Place in Printmaking, The 2022 CCAN Juried Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX