Are you interested in simple and gorgeous mark-making and printmaking techniques that you can create in your kitchen? We will explore the world of printmaking together with Speedball Gel plates during our 3-hour class, to create seven one-of-a-kind prints.
Gel Plates offer a depth of detail and dimensionality which other plates do not. We'll use Akua Inks, which are super intense colors, and easy to clean up with dishwashing soap and warm water. Let’s delight in creating texture and lines with this new technique that you can use in your living room or kitchen! We’ll use stencils and found objects from the instructor’s magic box of mark-making tools, and you are invited to bring along materials to share with others.
No experience necessary with the printing process; students receive personal attention from the teacher. Students should bring a few pieces of newsprint to carry prints home in. Students may also bring textures like stencils, doilies, lace, etc. to experiment with and share with your peers!
Let’s have fun and print together! You leave with the Gel Plate AND seven prints on archival paper.
Guest Workshop - Gel Plate Printmaking
Costs: €85
Includes:
- High quality materials
- Step by step guidance
- High quality printing paper
- Multiple original prints to take home
- Gel plate included to take home as well
- Refreshments & snacks
Max 4 people
Who is Amanda Barrow?
Amanda Barrow is a visual artist living/working in Massachusetts. Originally from the Midwest, she has lived on the East Coast and India since 1982.
Her artwork presents a broad range of abstractions utilizing nature, architecture, and the human body as Barrow’s primary sources of inspiration. In 1992, Barrow received a Fulbright research grant to work and study printmaking in India: in 2023, she was accepted as a Fulbright Specialist. Barrow has received numerous fellowships, several Mass Cultural Council grants, a Drawing Center/NYC honorarium, and a Lower East Side Printshop residency in NYC, among other awards. Speedball Art Products sponsor Amanda Barrow; she has taught Monotype printmaking techniques in Iceland, Germany, India and the United States.
Her prints, paintings, and artist’s books reside in collections around the world: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MoMA/NYC, Paul Matisse/Groton, MA, and the Museum of the Book, the Netherlands.
