Cyanotype & Book Making

INSTRUCTOR: Judi Tentor

Course Fee: $150

Class Length: Two Half-days (8 hrs)

Learn how to make blueprints using this historic analog photo process, then bind the prints using a Drum Leaf method of book binding. In this workshop, we will meet at mid-day, when the sun is the strongest for best exposure times, for ‘plein air’ cyanotype printing. We will create compositions from seaweed and other plant materiasl and objects. Students will learn techniques and tips for this alternative photo print process. In the second session we will bind together 5 prints using a Drum Leaf binding method.

Participants are encouraged to bring flat objects such as keys, plant leaves and flowers, tools, lace, stencils, twine, and/or translucent things..

Photo Realistic Letterpress

INSTRUCTOR: Rebecca Chamlee

Course Fee: $400

Class Length: Multi-day (15 hrs)

Continuous-tone photographic images are characterized by gradual transitions between shades and colors and have frustrated letterpress printers for decades. The need for the traditional halftone screen often produces coarse prints, difficult registration and color issues.

In this technical hybrid workshop, we’ll explore the possibilities of letterpress printing as a means of producing successful four-color process images. Two weekly live Zoom sessions include discussion and demonstrations on how to achieve successful results; choosing and editing original images, color manipulation in PhotoShop, soft proofing and preparing files for photopolymer plates. Individual consultation meetings will also be available. Students will order the photo polymer plates for original four-color images. Two weeks later, with plates in hand, we will meet in person for hands-on printing; with demonstrations of techniques and strategies for letterpress printing of multiple plates in tight registration.