Printmaking Class
 Using ocean themed texture plates (rigid plastic sheets etched with fish & shell designs) and coloring tools, DEP participants created tinted monoprints. The first step in this
multi-stepped process was to “ink the plate” – artists used tempera paint for ink. Immediately after inking the plate, step two involved “pulling a print” - by laying a piece of paper atop the inked plate the ink is transferred onto the paper by “burnishing” (rubbing) the paper firmly. Once the ink has dried, the final step involves “colorizing” the image using colored pencil or colored wax blocks.

Having inked her plate and "pulled a print"
Lisa Scales begins to add color.
MaryAnne Lyons uses colored pencil
to "colorize" her print, giving attention to detail.



While enjoying the environmental ocean music being played, Natalie Luwald uses
a colored pencil.
Marilyn Quintin uses the fish textured plate to create a repetitive pattern over the entire paper.


Chip Fitts uses a colored wax block
to colorize his abstract shell print.

Joshua Hood colorizes his picture with a
wax block to achieve realism.
MaryAnne Cooney gazes at her
completed monoprints and escapes to
a beach in her mind!

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