Stone Litho Intensive
Instructor: Carolyn Muskat
August 4 & August 5
4 sessions: Saturdays & Sundays, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Class Fee: $240 members/$280 non-members
*24 hours free studio time
Learn to draw on rocks and print from them! This class is an introduction to the art of stone lithography. Beginning with the basics, you will be guided step-by-step through the process of creating a lithograph. You will learn how to prepare your stone, how to manipulate various drawing materials to create imagery, how to prepare your paper with proper registration, how to use a printing press, and how to produce your very own edition of prints! All skill levels are welcome.
This workshop will give you a jumpstart on the basics of stone lithography. You will have the opportunity to draw on this amazing and unique surface and learn how to print an edition of single color prints. Perfect for the printmaker who wants to learn this traditional method of lithography in one short session. Each student will have a stone to draw on.
Stone Litho Intensive Supply List (PDF)
Carolyn Muskat is a Tamarind Master Printer and proprietor of Muskat Studios, a lithography studio in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been printing and collaborating professionally for 20 years as well as teaching printmaking at numerous art schools across the country. Not only a printer and instructor, she is an artist who has shown her work nationally and is included in many print collections.
“Printmaking provides a structure to separate one’s thought processes, a recognition of the steps one must go through to create anything. Images begin with an idea, a conceptual direction. As the relationships between the different components evolve, I adjust them, respond to them, and grow with them as they develop into individual pieces. Printmaking allows me the opportunity and flexibility to mix, mingle and cross-reference images to truly explore aspects of visual meaning and interpretation.”
For More Information, please view the following videos and descriptions of Stone Lithography.
Graining of Lithography Stone - Provided by the Sanjasada Channel on YouTube.com
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK63OzUrxg8&feature=related)
Lithography Stone Printing Procedure - Provided by the Jackdamer Channel on YouTube.com
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-c_WcGJDE)
Printmaking Processes: Lithography - Provided by the Artsmia Channel on YouTube.com
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc)
To register, please contact RBPMW at rbpmw@efanyc.org or 646.416.6226.