Are you interested in simple and gorgeous mark-making and printmaking techniques that you can even create in your own kitchen? Join us for a hands-on introduction to gel plate printing in this 3-hour workshop, offered on two dates: Saturday and Sunday. You’re welcome to attend one session or both if you’d like extra time to experiment and play.
We’ll explore the world of printmaking using 5'' × 7'' (12.7 × 17.78 cm) Speedball Gel Plates, creating seven one-of-a-kind prints per session.
Gel plates offer a depth of detail and dimensionality that other plates don’t. We’ll work with Akua Inks—soy-based, richly pigmented, and easy to clean up with dishwashing soap and warm water. Together, we’ll delight in building texture and lines using stencils and found objects from the instructor’s magic box of mark-making tools. You’re also invited to bring along materials to share with others.
No experience necessary!
Students should bring a few pieces of newspaper to carry prints home in, and may also bring textures like stencils, doilies, lace, paper, etc. to experiment with and share with your peers!
Let’s have fun and print together; you leave with the seven prints on archival paper, and new friends!
Guest Workshop - Gel Plate Printmaking
Costs: €85
If you want to participate in both days (Sat & Sun) Weekend Workshop €155
Includes:
- High quality materials
- Step by step guidance
- High quality printing paper
- Multiple original prints to take home
- Refreshments & snacks
Max 6 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. 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.
