Introduction to Gel Plate Printing and Other Mark-Making Techniques
Tuesday, May 19, 6-8pm
$50

Materials provided: gel plates, paints, brushes, feathers, stencils, and paper. You're also welcome to bring your own paper, as well as any feathers, leaves, stencils, or similar items you'd like to print with.

Gel plate printing is an accessible and experimental way to create beautiful monotype prints—no printing press required. In this workshop, teaching artist Rebecca Edwards will introduce you to the gel plate, a versatile tool that works wonderfully with acrylic paint and other water-based mediums (often with better results than traditional printing inks).

Come ready to experiment and find what works for you.

Please wear a smock or old clothes.

Rebecca Edwards is an Australian poet and visual artist based in San Francisco. She has exhibited works on paper and found object sculpture in Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, with work held in private collections across these countries as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The University of Queensland’s Fryer Library houses a collection of her works on paper alongside manuscripts, journals, and other ephemera (Rebecca Edwards Papers UQFL434).

A childhood spent in remote parts of the South Pacific—Papua New Guinea and Nauru—and various regions of Australia, including the Northern Territory,Queensland, and New South Wales, exposed Rebecca Edwards to many different modes of existence, and many different ways of experiencing and creating art.

 An experienced educator, she has taught drawing, paper-cutting, mosaic, poetry, prose writing, collage, and bookmaking to students of all ages, and has performed her poetry at major literary events in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. 

10 participants max

Introduction to Gel Plate Printing will be held at Michelle Thomas Fine Art Gallery + Studio, 40 29th St, San Francisco 94110.

All sales final.

ADA Note: Attendees must descend one flight of stairs to access The Studio.