Transforming Your Drawing Ideas into Printmaking

We will start our creative journey with some fun collaborative drawing exercises. For the remaining time workshop participants will complete a series of original drypoint prints working into copper and plastic plates using their drawing ideas as source material. Chine Colle techniques with Japanese papers will be introduced and implemented with drypoint techniques. Participants will be encouraged to be experimental as they learn to create and print consistent editions and monoprints with a high level of craftsmanship. The goal is to complete a series of images while learning beginning, intermediate, or advanced techniques using both copper and plastic plates, along with non-toxic water-soluble inks.

Tallmadge Doyle is a painter, printmaker, and teacher who received her BFA from the Cleveland Art Institute and an MFA from University of Oregon. She taught Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Oregon and Lane Community College in Eugene as an adjunct instructor for 14 years.

She emphasizes experimental methods and the development of content and technique. improving fundamental technical ability and to strengthening drawing and composition skills will be a focus in her classes.

Basic drawing materials- pencils, charcoal,

Carbide Steel drypoint needle (not an etching needle)

Scraping tool used for cooper (triangle shape)

Sharpie

Rubber gloves

Flat soft brush 1"- 2" wide for pasting

Sketchbook

1 piece tracing paper

1 piece carbon paper

Electric drypoint tool (optional)

Stonehenge Printmaking Paper

Copper plates

Plastic plates

Printmaking Inks - nontoxic

Tarletans for wiping plates

3 Electric drypoint tools to share

India ink