Letterpress Broadside Workshop
| Mar |
| 6 |
| 10:00 AM |
| Mar |
| 7 |
| 10:00 AM |
Letterpress Broadside Workshop
Class Times: Saturday 10am-5pm & Sunday 10am -3pm
Cost: $100.00, plus materials
Age: 15 years & up, no experience necessary
Master book artist and printmaker Robert Walp will lead a letterpress broadside workshop on March 6 & 7 at Bluseed Studios in Saranac Lake. The class will start on Saturday beginning at 10am and continue on Sunday from 10am-3pm. The studio will remain open that same evening for those who would like to stay and work on their project.
This two-day workshop is designed to hone your skills in typesetting and image printing on the Vandercook proof press. Participants will combine type and relief printing processes to create a single page broadside, or broadsheet.
Images will be printed from your choice of woodcut, linocut, or polymer plate. A basic knowledge of setting metal type will be helpful but not necessary.
Please come prepared with a short poem or prose passage and an image that will then be scanned and made ready to transfer to a block or polymer plate. Instructions for making polymer plates will be given at the workshop. Images can be no larger than 8”x11” and you will be allowed to run an edition of 15 one color broadside.
Paper and polymer plate material will be available for purchase at the workshop, as well as woodblocks. If you plan to make a linocut please bring your own type-high (.913") linoleum block.
Cost for this 2-day workshop is only $100 plus materials ($10.00 – $20.00).