Wednesdays - February 4-March 11 - 6:00-8:00pm
Ages: 12+
Prerequisites: None
Description: This six-week printmaking intensive invites participants to explore a wide range of printmaking techniques through playful experimentation, creative problem-solving, and hands-on discovery. Designed for beginners and curious creatives alike, the series emphasizes process over perfection and encourages exploration and surprise. While some of these techniques are also offered as standalone workshops at Remainders, this intensive introduces new approaches, materials, and conceptual frameworks, ensuring that even returning participants will experience something fresh. Using accessible, often upcycled materials, each session builds skills while leaving plenty of room for curiosity, creative freedom, and fun.
Week 1: Collagraph - By experimenting with duct tape, masking tape, metal tape, and other adhesive materials, students will explore how texture, line, and relief affect printed images. This approach offers a new take on collagraph for those who may have tried it before, focusing on surface variation and mark-making rather than traditional assemblage.
Week 2: Cyanotype Collage - Explore the cyanotype process by printing collaged images using light-sensitive chemistry and UV exposure. Working with photographs, objects, handwriting, and other collage elements, students will learn how light, transparency, and exposure time shape the final print. The session balances technical instruction with experimentation, resulting in striking blue and white prints that feel both scientific and magical.
Week 3: Mono-printing - This session focuses on additive and reductive techniques as a way to explore negative space and intentional mark-making. Participants will add and remove ink to build images through layering, wiping, and subtraction, discovering how absence can be just as powerful as presence. The emphasis is on process, experimentation, and embracing the uniqueness of each pull.
Week 4: Screen Printing - Learn the fundamentals of screen printing using handmade screens constructed from upcycled fabric and embroidery hoops. This session introduces stencil-based printing and repeating imagery, while keeping the process approachable and tactile. The focus is on experimentation rather than precision, making screen printing accessible, flexible, and fun.
Week 5: Linocut - Participants will be introduced to linocut relief printing with a focus on subtraction—carving away layers of material to print a multi-colored image, all using the same block. Emphasis will be placed on planning, color choices, and how each carved decision permanently alters the block. This session invites you to slow down, work deliberately, and discover how bold, expressive prints can emerge from simple tools.
Week 6: Intaglio - This final session explores intaglio printing using upcycled containers as printing plates. Participants will incise, scratch, and texture the surface to create lines that hold ink, producing prints with rich detail and depth. This accessible approach introduces intaglio concepts without specialized equipment, offering a satisfying and experimental conclusion to the series.
Materials: All materials provided.
Instructors: Elizabeth Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist working in textiles, printmaking, illustration and photography. She has over 20 years of experience working in art and design fields including costume, puppet and set fabrication, accessories design, tattooing and botanical illustration. Elizabeth recently moved from Portland, Oregon and loves the vibrant arts and culture of Los Angeles. Her work can be found on Instagram: @elizabeth.x.robinson and at www.elizabethxrobinson.com Jenny Lounibos is a lifelong crafter whose passion is giving new life to unwanted and discarded items. She attributes her ability to find new uses for old things to her mother, a former kindergarten teacher. As the winner of the 2023 Craftcation Iron Crafter competition, she learned that she can create under pressure, but prefers to craft as part of her mindfulness practice. Jenny always strives to create a fun and engaging environment to learn.
Location: All classes take place UPSTAIRS in our CREATIVE SPACE unless otherwise noted. Use the exterior stairs on the side of the building to enter.
Note: Please do not arrive late to class as it is disruptive for the teacher and students.
Class Refund Policy: Please email toban@remainders.org with your name and order number at least 48 hours before the class to receive a refund. A 20% cancellation fee applies.
Because we need time to fill vacant spots, there are no refunds with less than 48 hours notice.
Wednesdays - February 4-March 11 - 6:00-8:00pm
Ages: 12+
Prerequisites: None
Description: This six-week printmaking intensive invites participants to explore a wide range of printmaking techniques through playful experimentation, creative problem-solving, and hands-on discovery. Designed for beginners and curious creatives alike, the series emphasizes process over perfection and encourages exploration and surprise. While some of these techniques are also offered as standalone workshops at Remainders, this intensive introduces new approaches, materials, and conceptual frameworks, ensuring that even returning participants will experience something fresh. Using accessible, often upcycled materials, each session builds skills while leaving plenty of room for curiosity, creative freedom, and fun.
Week 1: Collagraph - By experimenting with duct tape, masking tape, metal tape, and other adhesive materials, students will explore how texture, line, and relief affect printed images. This approach offers a new take on collagraph for those who may have tried it before, focusing on surface variation and mark-making rather than traditional assemblage.
Week 2: Cyanotype Collage - Explore the cyanotype process by printing collaged images using light-sensitive chemistry and UV exposure. Working with photographs, objects, handwriting, and other collage elements, students will learn how light, transparency, and exposure time shape the final print. The session balances technical instruction with experimentation, resulting in striking blue and white prints that feel both scientific and magical.
Week 3: Mono-printing - This session focuses on additive and reductive techniques as a way to explore negative space and intentional mark-making. Participants will add and remove ink to build images through layering, wiping, and subtraction, discovering how absence can be just as powerful as presence. The emphasis is on process, experimentation, and embracing the uniqueness of each pull.
Week 4: Screen Printing - Learn the fundamentals of screen printing using handmade screens constructed from upcycled fabric and embroidery hoops. This session introduces stencil-based printing and repeating imagery, while keeping the process approachable and tactile. The focus is on experimentation rather than precision, making screen printing accessible, flexible, and fun.
Week 5: Linocut - Participants will be introduced to linocut relief printing with a focus on subtraction—carving away layers of material to print a multi-colored image, all using the same block. Emphasis will be placed on planning, color choices, and how each carved decision permanently alters the block. This session invites you to slow down, work deliberately, and discover how bold, expressive prints can emerge from simple tools.
Week 6: Intaglio - This final session explores intaglio printing using upcycled containers as printing plates. Participants will incise, scratch, and texture the surface to create lines that hold ink, producing prints with rich detail and depth. This accessible approach introduces intaglio concepts without specialized equipment, offering a satisfying and experimental conclusion to the series.
Materials: All materials provided.
Instructors: Elizabeth Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist working in textiles, printmaking, illustration and photography. She has over 20 years of experience working in art and design fields including costume, puppet and set fabrication, accessories design, tattooing and botanical illustration. Elizabeth recently moved from Portland, Oregon and loves the vibrant arts and culture of Los Angeles. Her work can be found on Instagram: @elizabeth.x.robinson and at www.elizabethxrobinson.com Jenny Lounibos is a lifelong crafter whose passion is giving new life to unwanted and discarded items. She attributes her ability to find new uses for old things to her mother, a former kindergarten teacher. As the winner of the 2023 Craftcation Iron Crafter competition, she learned that she can create under pressure, but prefers to craft as part of her mindfulness practice. Jenny always strives to create a fun and engaging environment to learn.
Location: All classes take place UPSTAIRS in our CREATIVE SPACE unless otherwise noted. Use the exterior stairs on the side of the building to enter.
Note: Please do not arrive late to class as it is disruptive for the teacher and students.
Class Refund Policy: Please email toban@remainders.org with your name and order number at least 48 hours before the class to receive a refund. A 20% cancellation fee applies.
Because we need time to fill vacant spots, there are no refunds with less than 48 hours notice.
