I recently travelled up the East Coast to the Beaumaris Beach Guest House where I had a very restful sleep. The next morning after a great breakfast Judy Muir and I prepared the dining room and verandah for a Drypoint printing workshop.
Judy has recently purchased an Enjay RP12 and I took up my demo model. So we had no problems of lining up waiting to printing, both fitted perfectly on a sideboard.
Twin Enjay RP12’s fitted in perfectly.
We had to move our inking up table back indoors after a gust of wind blew much of the materials across the yard and sent the ink spilling over the table. It was all quickly recovered and cleaned up and room found inside out of the wind.
All the participants were given a small milk bottle plastic plate to learn how to make their first marks with the etching needle. They also received a pack of papers, bigger plastic plate and a flower from the garden to draw onto the milk bottle plate.
Drypoint kit including a flower from the garden for inspiration
After everyone had experimented with their bookmark sized milk bottle plate and printed, we moved on to working on the larger A5 sized plates. The mark making was diverse with subjects ranging from flowers, Owls and Kombi vans. Everyone printed at least a couple of prints and we looked at adding a second colour, chine collé with a glued japanese paper and a japanese printed paper.
Everyone went away with a handful of prints and had a great time.
Thanks to Judy for the invite and hospitality .
Some final prints including “Milk bottle’” prints
A selection of the Kombi Prints by Heather