Lithografia: making safer paper-plate lithographs from drawings and photocopies

If you have ever wanted to try lithography, or wanted to work in lithography again but haven’t access to stones, this workshop is perfect. It is appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced printmakers. We will be creating prints using the principles of lithography from images directly drawn or photocopied onto paper. Because the printing plates are simply pieces of recycled paper, this medium can be liberating for the artist who might be intimidated by using stones or metal plates and the chemicals involved. Uniquely, the paper “plates” made by this process can be easily cut into shapes, layered, or collaged and used in combination with other techniques, like monotype.

During this two-day workshop we will concentrate on learning the techniques during the first day, and explore the possibilities the next. There will be time to develop a small body or series of prints.