Suggested  Supplies

Akua Intaglio inks /  Plates /  Paper

Drypoint is an intaglio process, similar to etching, but without the use of acids. The printmaker scratches directly onto a Copper Plate or Plastic Plate with a sharp pointed tool. This incising creates a burr that holds the ink. A velvety dark line is characteristic of drypoint prints. Drypoint plates are printed in the same way as etchings. First ink is applied to the plate then wiped clean with a wiping cloth such as soft tarlatan, cheesecloth, tulle, or Reemay fabrics.

Steps to Printing a Dry Point Monoprint

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Artist, Hugh Bryden
Drypoint from Plastic Plate, Printed with Akua Intaglio ink on an Etching Press.

artist: Julia Ayres

This Drypoint Monoprint by Julia Ayres was  printed from a Plastic Plate and Hand Printed with Akua Kolor using the PinPress. After developing the drypoint plate, Julia applied Akua Kolor with a dauber.To keep the color in the incised lines she wiped with paper. The print was made on moist Arches 88 paper by hand rolling with a Pinpress.   Julia Ayres pushed the possibility to the limits by printing this plate with Akua Kolor by hand. Akua Intaglio inks are usually recommended because they release from plate to paper more readily when printing by hand.

Drypoint on Copper Plate

Copper drypoint plate by Chris Shore.

Artist Chris Shore
Drypoint from copper plate printed with Akua Intaglio ink on an etching press.

Aftermath
32″ x 48″
2006
dyptych, 4 color intaglio-type

Medical Alert Next
32″ x 48″
2006
dyptych, 4 color intaglio-type

Munch’s Scream Missing
32″ x 48″
2006
dyptych, 4 color intaglio-type

Storm over Katrina
32″ x 48″
2006
dyptych, 4 color intaglio-type

Govenors Island Bahamas #1
4 color intaglio-type

Govenors Island Bahamas #2
4 color intaglio-type

Artist Biography

Keith Howard is an educator, author, artist, non-toxic printmaker, and renowned innovator. Howard serves as Head of Printmaking and Research at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences School of Art at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is recognized as the foremost authority within the field of non-toxic intaglio printmaking and has provided over 100 workshops on his innovative non-toxic printmaking innovations across the world.

Exhibit “In the Garden of Eve”

Artist Statement
Email Keith Howard: howard@mail.rit.edu

©Keith Howard

Use Akua Intaglio or Akua Kolor

The following artist books are made from monotypes.

Lifting Toward Light
by: Madeleine Thomson artist book  6″x18″

NESTING

by Susan Rostow, mixed media monoprint book

see more prints by Susan Rostow

Bad Dog
by: Liz Chalfin
monotype

Use Akua Intaglio Inks

These four process color intaglio-type prints were created at Rochester Institute of Technology by Instructor, David Jay Reed and his students. Four-plate printing on one sheet of paper permits the full range of colors in each image.

The prints were made using four registered Imagon plates. Equal amounts of Akua Intaglio ink and Akua Intaglio Transparent Base were mixed with the following colors. Hansa Yellow, Crimson Red (Scarlet Red when flesh tone was a priority), Phthalo Blue and Carbon Black.

See intaglio type for further information.

True Love
by: David Jay Reed
2002
12″x16″
To see more images of David Jay Reed’s art visit his artist page.

Shoes
by: Sionan Burke
2002

Road
by: Ryan Laurey
2003

Basset
by: Brandi Weaver
2001

Stones
by: Erin Holscher
2002

Suggested  Supplies

Akua Kolor and/or Akua Intaglio Inks

Akua Kolor / Akua Intaglio / Modifiers /   Paper /  Plates (use polycarbonate plastic plates. PETG is too soft)

This gallery displays prints made by laying stencils and textured objects onto the printing plate.

Chinatown II
by: Lena Marchi

The City in Woman by: Deborah Winegar
24″ x 18″ Monoprint  www.deborahwinegar.artspan.com
©Deborah Winegar

title
by: Catherine Tuttle
monotype

title
by: Catherine Tuttle
monotype

title
by: Catherine Tuttle
monotype

by: Catherine Tuttle
monotype

©Catherine Tuttle

Suggested  Supplies

Akua Intaglio inks /  Paper

Platemaking Supplies / Plates

A collagraph is a platemaking process in which simple materials such as acrylic mediums, textured papers, fabrics, etc. are used to build up the surface of the plate. Silk Aquatint, Carborundum, and PhotoCarborundum are considered Collagraphs. These low tech and inexpensive methods will produce rich and highly developed images with out the use of dangerous chemicals or acids. The materials applied to the plate will determine the tone and strengths of the ink, and will also give you a variation of textures. Once dry, the collagraph plate can be printed either as intaglio or relief.

Thin plates (.040 or .030 ) can easily be cut with a mat knife to create shaped images as demonstrated in this Collagrah (above) by Tung Hoang entitled “Fishing Out Of the Pot” .

The collagraph plate can be combined with monotype techniques as shown in this print by Ron Meir entitled “Fe.”

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April Picture #1
2007
Monotype, collage and drawing
10″x10″

April Picture #2
2007
Monotype, drawing
5″x8″

April Picture #3
2007
Monotype
5″x10″

May Picture #1
2007
monotype, collage

7″x7″

May Picture #2
2007
Monotype, collage
5″x8″

Artist Biography

Sarah Nicole Phillips is a Toronto-born, Brooklyn based printmaker who has exhibited widely in Canada and the US. She received her B.A, in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and her MFA from Brooklyn College with a concentration in printmaking. In addition to printmaking she has created several solar-powered installations including a public installation at Stuyvesant Cove Park in Manhattan. She has participated in a one-year artist residency at the Lower East Side Printshop where she teaches a 6-week monotype workshop several times per year.

©Sarah Nicole Phillips

bio

Untitled
14″x12″
monoprint

Untitled
14″x12″
monoprint

Untitled
14″x12″
monoprint

Artist Biography
Melanie Yazzie is a U.S. sculptor, painter and printmaker. Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona, and she is of Navajo/Dine descent. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder: she teaches two-dimensional art. The artist is a sought after lecturer.Yazzie earned a BFA at Arizona State University (1990) and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1993). A selection of major exhibitions from the 1990s to present include “Between Two Worlds” (2008) at Arizona State University [[2]], “Traveling” at the Heard West Museum (2006), “About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists” at the Wheelwright Museum (2005), “Making Connections” (2002) in Bulova, Russia, “Navajo in Gisborne” (1999) in Gisborne, New Zealand and “Watchful Eyes” (1994) at the Heard Museum [[3]].

The artist is included in seminal books by Zena Pearlstone (About Face), Lucy Lippard (Lure of the Local) and Jackson Rushing (Native American Art in the Twentieth Century), and collected nationally and internationally in private and public collections.

© Melanie Yazzie

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Dancer
22″ X 30″
Monotype

Hacha
22″ X 30″
Monotype

Dendur 4
20″ X 28″
Monotype

Bodhisatua
12″ X 12″
Monotype

Artist Biography
Judy Just is a painter and printmaker, living and teaching in Santa Fe, NM. Her work is known for color, exuberance and movement. She studied at Ringling School of Art and received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, with continuing studies in Mexico and Greece. She has exhibited in Paris, France, Athens, Greece, Wertsburg, Germany and the US. She is in private collections in Europe and corporate and private collections in the US. She has also exhibited at the Lewallen FOCA show and Monothon Site Santa Fe shows in Santa Fe.

Judy has been teaching for 25 years in Florida and New Mexico. Currently she is doing workshops in water-based printmaking for Takach Press Corporation in Albuquerque, NM and for Akua printmaking inks nationally.

©Judy Just

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Biking #3 (series)
32″ x 24″
intaglio-type, chine colle on Vietnamese paper

Fishing Out Of the Pot #1 (series)
32″ x 48″
intaglio-type, chine colle

Home #1 (series)
32″ x 48″
intaglio-type, chine colle

Jumping Out Of The Pot #1 (series)
32″ x 48″
intaglio-type, chine colle

Riding Home #1 (series)
32″ x 48″
Intaglio-type, chine colle

Artist Biography

Tung Hoang was born in Hanoi Vietnam. In 1980, He moved to the United State as a refugee. He was raised and educated in New Haven and East Haven, Connecticut. He completed his bachelor degree in Fine Studio Art at Southern Connecticut State University. He went on to complete his MFA in non-toxic printmaking at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. He is one of the first three researchers in the world to work and tested Du Pont’s ImagOn (Ultra) at RIT and the first researcher to test Rostow and Jung’s water-based Intaglio inks. Tung taught non-toxic printmaking at RIT and has given non-toxic printmaking workshop at Rostow & Jung’s and SCSU.

©Tung Hoang

Shore
7″x10″
four color drypoint

Sunset 1
4″x4″
Monoprint (tonertype)

Dusk 1
4″x4″
Monoprint (tonertype)

Artist Biography

Hugh Bryden is a Dumfries, Scotland-based printmaker and educator. Over the last few years his work has been shaped by visits to Catalonia and collaborations with writers. In 1999 he formed Cacafuego Press with Tom Pow. In 2002 he was visiting lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State with an emphasis on artist’s books. He was one of four facilitators at the Wexford Artists Book Symposium in September 2005 and exhibited at The London Artists Book Fair in November. He have recently rejoined Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop and is currently involved in producing collagraphs and lithographs there.

©Hugh Bryden