Star Wheel Printers

There is still time to register for Elaine M. Erne's Silk Aquatint Workshop at the Fleisher Art Memorial this Summer. It is a painterly print process which involves no acid or solvents. Open to all levels of experience!! On Thursdays June 23 to July 28 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm.
https://fleisher.org/.../printmaking-silk-aquatint.../

For the love of stone lithography!

A hypnotic video of a rare art form Lithography nearly died out in the 1960s – but it’s seen a recent resurgence. Adam Proctor has filmed two printers going through the process in Berlin.

Star Wheel co-founder Elaine Erne is teaching a Silk-Aquatint class at the Fleisher Art Memorial this July. Silk-Aquatint is a printing process which has the richness of an etching as well as the flowing movement of a watercolor or the textures of a palette knife painting all without the use of acid. Using acrylic based materials you will make a plate and then an image on it that emulates the intaglio processes of aquatint or mezzotint with their full tonal ranges and deep blacks. These plates work well with both oil and soy based inks and are printed in the same fashion as metal plates.

Materials
Three sheets of Rives BFK
2H pencil
9” x 12” newsprint pad
www.fleisher.org

Fun time at the closing reception to Star Wheel Printers' fifth First Edition Show. Thank you to Mary and Patti and the University of the Arts' Printmaking and Books Arts Department for use of their beautiful gallery space!