OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque is mostly an etching studio, and the main event on January 11, 2025 was to demonstrate all the printmaking techniques they work with:

OPEN HOUSE announcement

at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

Anne Steen silk-screening in the back studio

FRONT STUDIO

The main course was happening in the FRONT STUDIO -- Photo Polymer plate printing, Copper plate etching, and monotype:

Entrance to the front studio

The Front Studio

MONOTYPE

MARY SUNDSTROM demoed monotype printmaking:

Mary Sundstrom monoprint set-up

Tracing the image

Removing an inked acrylic see-thru plate,

with the sketch below it

COPPERPLATE INTAGLIO

MONICA PARKER demoed etching from copper plates:

The etching set-up

with all the colored inks laid out on cardboard tabs

ready to apply to the copper etching plate

Monica with drawing next to her print

Monica's etching

PHOTO POLYMER 

LINCOLN DRAPER, one of the four owners of Remarque, demoed the photo polymer process. One can transfer a photo image to a photo polymer plate, and print it like it were a copperplate etching:

Lincoln applying ink to the photo polymer plate

Printing the photo polymer plate on a press

Lincoln briefly stored the print in a plastic bag, so that the damp paper would not shrink when the water evaporated.  This is critical when printing a second plate over the first, in order that the printing plates register perfectly on the paper:

Temporarily storing the print in a plastic bag,

before printing over it with a second plate

The final photo polymer masterpiece

BACK STUDIO

More printmaking demos happened in the back studio -- Screenprint, Mokuhanga, Exquisite Tessellation relief printmaking, and Mezzotint:

Entrance to the back studio

MEZZOTINT

HOLLAND HARDIE demoed these small mezzotint plates:

Small mezzotint copper plates

SILK SCREEN

ANNE STEEN demoed the silk-screening process in the back studio:

The transparencies,

that were exposed onto the screens

Anne about to screen the first color, red

The final red and black silkscreen prints

Anne paints directly onto the screen

showing off the silkscreen monoprint technique

Silkscreen masterpieces

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• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques