Monotype Workshop

Monotype Workshop

Instructor: Anthony Kirk

Dates: Saturday, January 22, 2022

Time: 10AM -  2PM

Location: Five Points Arts Center Print Lab

Ages: 18+

Cost: $55 workshop fee; $30 materials fee, payable to instructor

Class Cap: 12

Workshop Description

Anthony Kirk will lead a three-hour workshop where participants will investigate several methods of creating and printing monotypes. We will be printing with and without a press and also print from a freshly printed impression. Known as a counterproof, this enables the artist to see their print in the orientation that it was made on the plate and not the mirror image. Without reworking the pate with added ink, a second or “ghost” impression can also be pulled. Usually a brush technique where ink is applied to the plate in an additive way, the ink can also be rolled on the plate with brayers and then removed with rags and Q-tips. This is known as a reductive monotype.

Often referred to as “the painterly print”, monotypes can also be a drawing process whereby a thin layer of ink is rolled onto the plate, paper is then laid over the plate and the artist then draws on the paper. By varying the hand pressure and variety of sharpness or bluntness of the drawing tool, ink is transferred to the paper accordingly. This technique is commonly known as transfer or trace monotype and Paul Klee was an exponent of this process. He referred to this body of work as “transfer drawings”.

Non-toxic inks and water-soluble crayons will be used in a fume free environment where the clean up solvent is Dawn detergent and water. Space is limited to 12 participants and a fee of $30 per person will cover all material costs.

Participants will be printing from plate sizes 11 x 14 ins. and 18 x 24 ins on paper measuring 15 x 22 ins. and 22 x 30 ins.

Required Materials

Materials participants should bring:

• Various size brushes

• Sketches/studies in color or black & white.

• Sketches/studies should be either 12x16 ins and/or 18x24 ins.

Materials instructor will bring:

• Printing Inks

• Printmaking paper

• Rags

• Rollers and brayers

• Plexiglas plates

• Paper towels

• Dawn detergent

• Water soluble color crayons

• Q tips

Materials fee per participant: $30.00

Note: Materials fee includes 3 sheets of printmaking paper 22x30 ins.

Additional paper can be purchased from instructor @ $6.00 per

sheet.

Instructor Bio

Anthony Kirk has previously taught printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art, Woodstock School of Art, Manhattan Graphics Center, Washington Art Association, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and Ridgefield Guild of Artists. Recently he was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Bard College. He has had a long career as a Master Printer collaborating with emerging and leading American artists. For the monograph Richard Segalman: Black & White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes by Susan Forrest Castle, and published by The Artist Book Foundation, he wrote the introduction from the viewpoint of a master printer as to why artists make monotypes. He has also curated exhibitions of monotypes by Eric Aho, Jack Boul, Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason and Michael Mazur.