San Francisco Center for the Book

This is a three session online workshop meeting on Tuesdays, October 7, 14 and 21.

Gelli plates are a versatile tool for experimenting with printing layers and textures, and this class gives lots of opportunity for play.

In our first week, we will generate fodder for future collage through drawings, mark making and gelli plate printing. Demos will include a variety of techniques to produce a variety of prints. Students will create prints to be used as backgrounds, to be cut into shapes and elements within a collage, and also transparent layers. Students will be encouraged to continue experiments during our second session. For our third and final meeting, we will sort what we created, and discuss how to reproduce our favorite prints. Then we will use our papers for collage and discuss special considerations for materials.

Online workshops are recorded; video links will be emailed to registered students after each session, and recordings will be available for eight weeks after the final class meeting.

Prerequisite:
None

Materials to Bring:

• Gelli plate or homemade gelatin plate, between 4 x 6" and 8 x 10"
• 1 brayer
• 3 colors acrylic paint (cheap paint is just great)
• 2 different paint brushes
• Tray for water
• Rags
• 25-40 sheets of paper, slightly larger than your plate: drawing paper, vellum and/or tracing paper. Not slick or coated
• Cardstock for stencils
• Thin cardboard (cereal or cracker box okay)
• Pencil

Optional:

• Ribs (usually for shaping clay)
• Combs
• Rubber-tipped tools
• Cotton swabs
• Fresh plant material (not dried)

About the Instructor:
Hope Amico (they/them) is a visual artist, writer and educator who believes we could all use a creative practice. Through classes, collage meetups and the Keep Writing postcard project, they are excited to share ways we can work together and support each other creatively. Co-founder of the New Orleans Collage Collective and previously known as gutwrench press, they relocated to Portland, OR in 2020. They teach online and in-person through the MCBA, SFCB and privately through their own studio.