This workshop will offer an opportunity to build on the topics of the previous week. All levels are welcome. 

Using non-toxic materials, work with master printer Catherine Kernan to explore the spontaneous and painterly qualities of monotype and monoprint. Brush, roll, wipe and layer a variety of surfaces to produce surprising and unpredictable colors and textures. Learn methods of registration, overprinting, viscosity rolls and resists, transfers, ghost images, collagraphs, chine colle and color separation. Learn to think in color and how to exploit the unique luminosity of waterbased inks and paints.

We will focus on the newly developed Akua-Kolor waterbased monotype and intaglio inks, using them to build combinations of woodcut, collagraph, silk-aquatints, and other repeatable matrices. 

This is an opportunity for each student to pursue in depth a project or projects not limited to one printmaking medium. Artists who have some experience in painting and/or printmaking are welcome, as are novices. Emphasis in the workshop will be on identifying and enhancing the synergy between each participant's own way of making art and the processes of printmaking.

Catherine Kernan has been an exhibiting artist-printmaker for nearly 25 years. She has been an art instructor for just as long, having held many faculty positions at colleges, art institutes and museums. She has taught numerous workshops throughout the eastern U.S., as well as other regions and countries. Having received many fellowships and grants including the Visual Artist Grant from the Somerville Arts Council, Artist in Residence Grant from the Winchester Foundation for Educational Excellence, and the Artist's Resource Trust Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Grant.

Are you fascinated with the spontaneity and surprises of monotype and monoprint? Are you inspired by brushing, rolling, wiping, color mixing and layering? Do the generative possibilities of printmaking appeal to you? Do you enjoy printing from a variety of surfaces and textures? Do you want to avoid the long cleanup, the dry hands, the solvents, and the toxic fumes of oil-based printmaking? This workshop will give you a thorough introduction to Akua-Kolor water-based inks.

In addition to all the basic additive, subtractive, and viscosity monotype techniques, we will use a variety of matrices to generate series and variations. Monotype inking and wiping combined with overprinting, transfers, ghost images, and chine colle can give rich variations of images. Drypoint, carborundum and silk collagraphs, previously etched plates, woodcuts, and stencils will all be demonstrated as ways of achieving richly layered prints.

Emphasis in the workshop is on identifying and enhancing the synergy between each participant’s own way of making art and the processes of printmaking. Demonstrations, critiques, print viewing, and one-on-one consultation allow the pursuit of projects in depth.

Faculty:
Catherine Kernan currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is co-owner and director of Mixit Print Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin / Madison. The recipient of numerous grants, Catherine has exhibited her work widely and her work is in many public, private, and corporate collections.