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Each monotype workshop is a two-day collaboration between a maximum
of 5 artists and printer Tom Blaess. This is an opportunity to work
with a professional printer who will not only print your monotypes
for you, but will also help you to learn more about the process
of image making, and consequently to improve your artwork.
Each participant will have his or her individual
workstation in front of the large arched windows overlooking
the river. There they will learn how to paint, roll, or wipe ink
onto plexiglass plates, later to be printed on the etching press.
Collage elements, doodles made with colored pencils, or broad stokes
of tusche can be drawn first onto the white paper, before the monotype
process begins, creating a mixed-media work on paper.
Overprintings of translucent colors
can be used to liven up images that are too quiet, while pastel
colors mixed with opaque white can be overprinted to simplify images
that are too busy.
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When: Saturdays and Sundays, from 10:00
a.m. until 5:00 p.m., generally three times per month. When an exhibition
is running, workshops can be arranged during the week.
Cost: SFr. 300.-, including printing
materials, except for the paper (Zerkall, 250 gm2).
What you should bring: Bring something
for lunch - when the weather is good the group can go outside and
have a picnic by the river. While the printshop is heated, it is
a good idea to bring a sweater as well as old clothes, and a portfolio
for your prints.
Parking: The Uferweg is a private
street, and it is closed on weekends and after 6 p.m. on weekdays.
It is important that you don't drive through, as you will get
an expensive ticket from the houseowner.
Please park on the Altenbergstrasse, or better yet, take the train
to Bern and enjoy the short walk down through the Botanical Gardens
(see map in "Site Plan").
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