Let us demystify stone lithography! A process that is more than 200 years old and uses an image drawn on a limestone to make hundreds of prints! In this process, an image is drawn using greasy materials. You can even use butter! The painterly marks achieved are unmatched to other techniques. Lucky for us, Alberta Printmakers is one of the few places in the province that offers lithography stones and equipment for use! 

This course is suitable for all levels with no prior experience needed. Participants will learn how to prepare, draw, etch, and print a litho stone to make a small edition. 

Monotypes are one of a kind prints that combine printing, painting, and drawing techniques with surprising and painterly results. In the course we will create monotypes with and without the press, using both additive and reductive techniques. 

This is a great workshop for beginners, intermediate, and experienced printmakers who want to loosen up and embrace painterly mark making. Students will leave with multiple unique prints, a full understanding of how to create their own monotype prints at home and in the studio, and the renewed energy to create.

Screen printing (or silkscreen) is a printmaking technique where layers of ink are pulled through a mesh screen to create a wonderfully detailed image, often with multiple layers of transparent ink interacting with one another. In this comprehensive workshop, students will gain an understanding of the processes involved in creating a screen print on paper within a professional printmaking studio and will leave with the knowledge and experience required to produce work independently.

This course is suitable for all levels with no prior experience needed.

This workshop introduces participants to the technique of chine collé – a paper laminating technique specific to printmaking used to create spatial, material, and visual separation in printed works. 

Over the course of a six-hour workshop, participants will be shown various approaches to chine collé and will be given ample opportunity to actively practice, play, and experiment with the technique through a series of prescribed and self-determined exercises.

Participants should leave the workshop with a portfolio of chine collé experiments and a good foundation in the technique to allow for continued personal exploration. 

Experience and understanding of basic printmaking is highly recommended for those interested in taking this workshop, though it is not a necessity due to the technique being very accessible to all. Artists, printmakers, and creators working in collage, installation, colour, and experimental print may find interest in this technique which is easily adaptable to individual ways of making.

Are you curious about cyanotype and wondering what you can do with this magical medium?

In this workshop you will not only learn the basics of preparing, exposing and developing your own cyanotypes, but how to take them several steps further through toning, bleaching, and multiple exposures.

During the first day of the workshop, you’ll prepare cyanotype solution before applying it to paper, and then expose your imagery using both the sun and exposure unit equipment to create several of your own prints.

Then, using dye baths and registration strategies for multiple exposures, you’ll move beyond the quintessential cyanotype blue to achieve rich browns, reds, yellows, and even some colour combinations on the same print!

Participants will gain the know-how and confidence to continue their cyanotype journey both at home or in a studio environment.