The Magic of Monotypes: Explorations in Printmaking
Registration
$475.00
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Charley Young
Monday to Friday, July 14 – July 18, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm
This weeklong workshop will explore various low-tech, off-the-press, printmaking techniques including gelli plates, tetra-pak drypoint, embossments, watercolour monotypes, pochoir and ballpoint pen relief. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with monotype techniques, a hybrid approach to creating one-of-a-kind printed images, using imagery and subject matter of their interest. All techniques will utilize basic materials and hand printing techniques which are suitable for at-home work. This workshop is intended to focus on exploration and experimentation! This workshop is suitable for those new to printmaking, those with experience, including art teacher who are eager to try new approaches.
Students should bring:
- Apron/ Comfortable footwear
- Imagery to reference each day (Photocopies, sketchbook drawings, photographs, magazine pages, collages etc. Should be imagery of interest to you! Bring as much as you have.
- A Gelli Plate. Any shape or size! Can be purchased from Michael’s or Amazon.
- Textures Natural elements, fabric, found materials (for embossments). Items will get damp but not inky!
- Drawing Materials Pencils, crayons, whatever you have! (some will be on hand)
- Watersoluble media Watercolour pencil crayons, water-soluble crayons etc. (if available, otherwise some will be on hand!)
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Charley Young
Shaped by the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charley holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art (Portland, Maine) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Young’s practice combines site-based and indexical modes of making shared between printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She uses textures found within natural and built environments to record unique impressions of sites in transition. To date, her work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing Arctic ice and small-scale hand casts that record the space between clasped hands of new Canadians. A tool for connection, her artwork often invites participation in socially engaged and public projects.
Charley Young is Regular-Part Time Faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches drawing and printmaking. Charley works out of her home studio in Bedford, Nova Scotia.