Nicholas Collins - Printmaking: Intro To Color Reduction Cut Weekend - Aug 30 & 31
This in-person weekend workshop offers hands-on instruction in relief printmaking for all levels, from beginners to experienced artists. Participants will explore wood and linoleum carving, color reduction techniques, accurate registration, and the rich history of relief printing.
This in-person weekend workshop offers hands-on instruction in relief printmaking for all levels, from beginners to experienced artists. Participants will explore wood and linoleum carving, color reduction techniques, accurate registration, and the rich history of relief printing.
This in-person weekend workshop offers hands-on instruction in relief printmaking for all levels, from beginners to experienced artists. Participants will explore wood and linoleum carving, color reduction techniques, accurate registration, and the rich history of relief printing.
Dates: Aug 30 & 31, 2025
Times: Sat & Sun 9-5pm (14 hours instruction)
Level: All Levels
Members Price: $420 (Members use discount code MEMBERS10 at checkout to receive 10% off)
Workshop Description:
This in-person weekend workshop is perfect for both the beginner getting started with relief printmaking and more advanced artists, looking to move into color printing. We will be exploring both wood and linoleum carving, accurate registration systems, ink modifiers, tips on drawing for a reduction cut relief project, strategizing for full color reduction printing, a look back at the history of relief printing, plus all the other stuff that comes up. This is a satisfying, non-toxic, easy clean-up art form that is ideal for your home studio. Bring images that interest you and whatever materials you have—I will provide paper, carving tools, and ink. Once you get a handle on this process…. the options are infinite! I’m excited to be back with you all in the MAC studio!
About the Instructor:
NICHOLAS COLLINS studied art history and sculpture at UCSB and trained in etching and relief printmaking at KALA in Berkeley, where he was an artist in residence for two years. He has shown his work in galleries in the Bay Area, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. For 8 years Nicholas has been teaching printmaking and drawing workshops, both in-person and on-line at the Mendocino Art Center and Pacific Art League in Palo Alto.
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$20 materials fee to be collected by the instructor on the first day of the workshop. Cash is appreciated.
Required Material list: (student responsibility)
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