Painterly Printmaking
March 13 – April 3, 2025 | 1:30–4 p.m.
Location: Red Workshop, Greene Family Education Center
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The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
Explore the spontaneous and expressive potential of monotype printing. Using an approach similar to painting, make unique impressions by creating images through reductive and additive methods, in addition to experimenting with a combination of techniques on plexiglass plates. Learn to manipulate ink with brushes, rags, and other tools before passing your plates through the press and enhancing subsequent prints using stencils and other media.
Week 1: Begin with an introduction to the class, followed by an outline of ink manipulation and the methods that will be explored. Create your first prints using a reductive (or “dark-field”) technique.
Week 2: Make prints from observation, further experimenting with ways to manipulate your ink on the plate. Use one color to convey forms with volume using the dark-field method before beginning on a larger plate and expanding your color palette.
Week 3: Create prints using an additive (or “light-field”) technique. Experiment with different kinds of inks, make stencils, and explore various approaches to enhancing your “ghost prints.”
Week 4: Combine different techniques and image-making methods to create your final prints before we conclude our time together with a discussion about our work and a reflection on what we’ve learned.
About Studio Classes
Studio Classes enable you to expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.
This is an introductory-level Studio Class; it is designed to accommodate all levels of skill and talent. If you have never taken a painting or printmaking class before, this is a great place to start. You will learn new skills that you can carry forward and build on in your artistic practice.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
About Your Instructor
Daniel Mantilla is a Colombian-born artist with over a decade of experience teaching young people, families, and adults. In his paintings, drawing-collages, and cutouts, Daniel explores ideas of transition and instability. He previously lived in New York City, where he recorded instructional videos for public television. His art has been exhibited across the United States and internationally. He has studied paintings in museum collections in Spain, conducted research on cadmium-free acrylic paint, and holds an MFA from Hunter College.
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