Printing Classes in Washington, DC

What is “Brush Lettering?” Brush lettering is beautiful hand lettering that looks like calligraphy, but is created with a brush pen rather than a dip pen and ink. Brush pens provide a great way to get started with brush/hand lettering without the messy cleanup of traditional calligraphy.  Heather will teach you how to create beautiful and...

Explore memories and ideas for making pictures and symbol imagery that can be fitted together, forming a playful composition by drawing and painting inside, outside, or perhaps all around the Alphabet Letter(s) that you invent. This class is an adventure for individuals to invent, taking from within themselves a story to be told through fanciful, colorful...

New to screen­printing? Fabric is a fantastic medium to print onto and can be translated into a great range of applications. This hands­-on introductory class will provide instruction of the screenprinting process, specifically for fabric. You will learn about: sourcing printing equipment and materials preparing your personal artwork for screenprinting...

Interested in learning the basics of screenprinting or becoming certified in the screenprint studio? In this workshop, you will learn how to work independently in the darkroom and studio. Participants will learn the basics of preparing images, exposing screens, and printing with water-based inks.

Using relief printing techniques, students learn how to create a linocut relief print by creating an initial drawing, then transferring and carving it onto a linoleum block to be printed. Relief printing is the process of carving away material on a flat surface. The remaining surface is then “rolled” with ink and pressed onto paper to make a final...

Beginners and experienced printmakers explore a variety of woodblock printing methods. Using traditional tools and methods in creative ways,students learn to maximize their time at the press. Students create multi-layered reduction prints with oil-based ink and a printing press, as well as single-layer hand rubbed prints with water-based ink. A $40...

Learn the basics of stone lithography, including: graining principles of drawing etching printing troubleshooting Participants will make one small edition of prints during class. Students with prior experience will be shown color, additive and subtractive stone reworking, and counteretching.

Curious about screen printing? In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of screen printing from start to finish. Students will learn different methods of preparing images, transferring to the screen, and printing multiple layers with water-based inks to make an editions of beautiful art prints.

Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints created by a painterly method originally developed by the Impressionists. In this class students learn several techniques including subtractive, additive, color blending, texture transfer, and other painterly methods. Monotypes can be abstract or realistic, and students are encouraged to work at their own pace to...

Mezzotint is a direct, chemical-free method of intaglio printing, unique in its tonality, richness, and potential for soft edges. A demonstration on rocking the plate will be given, but students will work with pre-rocked plates. They will learn to transfer an image to the plate and be coached through the process of printing and altering the plate....

In this course, students will explore lithography using photo-sensitive Aluminum Litho Plates. Students will explore creating hand-drawn and digitally produced photo positives, and learn proper exposure, development, and printing of Photo Litho Plates. The instructor will digitally print positives for students as part of class structure. Students will...

While there are many ways to monoprint (the creation of a print that is one of a kind), the most fun is using an 8" x 10" Gelli Arts™ Gel Printing Plate, made of a unique gel-like plastic that looks and feels like gelatin, but is durable, reusable and stores at room temperature. This process offers you spontaneity and creates wonderful painterly...

Students discover multiple printmaking techniques focusing on collograph, relief and monotype, using nontoxic materials. Participants can create greeting cards from their prints, as well as print directly onto T-shirts with their relief block.  

Printing was introduced in Germany in the 1440’s and the first herbal was printed in 1491. In this course students will create single color relief prints editions using plants as their subject. This class is open to beginners as well as students who want to expand their relief printing practice.

This course introduces students to a range of printmaking techniques. Students will learn fundamentals of relief printing in wood or linoleum, dry point and mono type. Black and white work is emphasized though students will be introduced to chin colle as a method of adding color to their prints.