Monotype/New Horizons 3-Day Workshop with Joyce Zavorskas

December 3-5, 2021 at Zavorskas Print Studio, 12 Forest Way, Orleans, MA 02653

9:00 – 4:00 pm, Friday - Sunday

$280.00 Member (includes $40 materials fee)

$310.00 Non-Member (includes $40 materials fee)

This workshop is sponsored by the Cape Cod Museum of Art and relates to the current Printmakers of Cape Cod exhibition on display through December 12, 2021, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Beginners to advanced students are welcome.

Monotypes are paintings on smooth acrylic plates transferred to paper once only using a manual press. Students bring images of familiar beloved places, people, or things to each class and create painterly spontaneous images on smooth acrylic plates using small rubber brayers, brushes, and oil base etching ink. Dampened 100% rag paper placed on top of the inked plate, and passed through the press with gentle pressure, produces a unique impression that is intimately and permanently bonded with the fibers of the paper. The glistening layers of radiant ink create truly unique images with depth, mystery, memory, and delight. Viscosity inking with larger rollers will be explored. Viscosity means flowability of a liquid. Inks are modified with oil or driers to be oily or stiff, so that one color repels another, with amazing results. An evocative, personal theme emerges with each print session. Demonstrations each day will help to develop individual explorations. Clean-up with baby oil or Gamsol.

$40.00 materials fee includes the use of:

• 36x60” American French Tool press, 18x30” Charles Brand press, 12x24” Griffin press

• 7 large rubber rollers 12” – 24” wide

• Plexiglass 1/8” thick plates cut to various odd sizes

• Plexiglass 1/8” thick plates cut to various odd sizes

• ten 1 lb. cans of Gamblin etching ink in basic various colors

• BFK RIves paper, 3 pieces 22x30” each student, more available @ $6.00 ea.

• Plastic palette knives

• Mill files to bevel edges of Plexiglas plates, and a Plexiglas cutter

• Speedball soft brayers and rollers in various sizes, 1.5” is best, bring yours if you have them

• Press blankets

• Water tray

• Burnt plate oil #00, #3 

• Gamsol

• Baby oil

• Rubbing Alcohol 70%

• Razor scrapers to clean glass palettes

• Clean newsprint to protect press blankets

Student supplies to bring:

• Images of familiar beloved places, people or things

• 3 soft Speedball brayers,1.5” is the best size

• Apron

• 2 Palette knives to mix ink colors, 3-4” blade

• Old telephone books for cleaning brayers

• One roll of paper towels or clean soft rags

• Printmaking paper such as white BFK Rives 250 grams size 22x30” if you have any

• Oil painting brushes long handles

• Newsprint pad 18x24” to bring home prints each day

Optional: 

• Charbonnell oil base etching inks in 60ml tubes: Yellow, ruby red, orient blue, ocean blue, dark green, yellow ochre, raw umber. Charbonnell inks have the best radiance and tinting strength, never dries out like ink in a can.

• Winsor Newton Oil Bars or R&F Pigment Sticks, great for spontaneous mark-making

• 1/8” Plexiglas plates cut to size of image you want to paint, 2 of the same size is good

COVID policy:    Participants are required to wear masks indoors.

Artist Bio:   The recipient of numerous awards, painter and printmaker Joyce Zavorskas has exhibited widely, including London, Paris, New York, and California. Monotypes may be viewed locally at Left Bank Gallery and Boston Art Inc. Zavorskas has taught printmaking for 45 years at schools, museums and art centers, including PAAM, Castle Hill, Touchstone, Simmons College, Bridgewater State University and Cape Cod Community College. She holds three university degrees, including an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from MassArt, during which she studied with Michael Mazur, Peik Larsen, and Joel Janowitz in Provincetown. She has served on the executive boards of the Boston Printmakers, Monotype Guild of New England, Printmakers of Cape Cod and the Creative Art Center. www.joycezavorskas.com