About the Course
This workshop explores both technical and conceptual approaches to monotype printmaking. Students will be guided through many monotype techniques such as reductive and additive inking, chine colle, multiple drops and layering of imagery. Demonstrations and group discussions will be followed by practice and critique. Individualized and experimental approaches to the medium will be encouraged, as the magic of monotype is an excellent way to achieve highly personalized prints. This will be a non-toxic studio environment open to all levels of artistic and printmaking experience.
Your Instructor
Robyn Smith
Robynn Smith holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. She is an internationally exhibiting painter and printmaker and Professor Emerita, Monterey Peninsula College.
Robynn is the founder of the annual international event, Print Day in May, and Blue Mouse Studios in Aptos, California. She has extensive teaching experience at private studios, art centers, colleges and universities around the world.
Notable solo exhibitions include Monterey Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. She has been represented in juried and invitational group shows on 5 continents. Recent residency fellowships include L’AiR Arts Paris, Islensk Grafik in Iceland and Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts.