MASTER SESSION
Direct-to-Plate Gravure 

P. Romaniuk

Workshop Details | Direct-to-Plate Gravure with Don MESSEC

I am genuinely excited about this break through in platemaking.  Imagine getting great results without the need for a vacuum frame, a transparency, even an exposure unit.  Direct-to-Plate (dtp) is a true game changer for using photopolymer plates.  With any one of the many ink jet printers you will be able to print your image directly to the emulsion for exposure in the sun to amazing results! 

This printmaking approach builds on single exposure platemaking and frees your platemaking in whole new ways.  No pre-screening of your plates.  The screen is built into inkjet output which is printed directly on the plate then exposed.  Using ImagOn, which works great with dtp, you will spend far more time making exhibition prints and less time platemaking.

With the development of single exposure for high quality plates, plate exposure is far more predictable and reliable.  Even in the sun.  Whether you shoot photographs, draw and paint, appropriate images, whatever your process of image building all you need to accomplish is getting your images in to digital form so you can print directly to your plate.

What to Bring

1. Idea source materials such a drawings and photographs.
2. Images in digital format; scanning can be done at LUZ, but not a priority for workshop.
3. Digital camera if you have one.
4. Jump drive (thumb drive or other removable media
5. Laptop if you have one.
6. Large enough luggage to pack small and medium prints, with stiff protector (cardboard or matt board). Large prints can be shipped to you (at listed rate) or you can roll them in a shipping tube at your discretion.

*Studio Fee includes the materials and studio services for plates and paper for 4 - 8x10, 4 - 9x12, 2 - 16x20
Additional materials will be available for purchase.

Any questions on supplies or the workshop please send us an email; workshops@luzgallery.com

REGISTER
Enrolment limited to 9 participants. 
* 3 spaces left.  

A 50% deposit is due upon registration, the balance will be due 30-days prior to the start of the workshop. The materials fee will be due the first day of class. Full details on payments & our Refund/Cancellation policies available on our registration page. Or send us an email with any questions, workshops@luzgallery.com

* registration for this workshop will close July-1, 2012. Please register prior to this date.
 

About Don Messec

MakingArtSafely is Don Messec's latest effort to bring new thinking, technology and materials to artists who do not want literally to "die for their art." Don’s MFA is from UIUC and he began his printmaking experience at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in NYC in the 1980s. Sounds so long ago. Don Messec is also the founding director of the Printmaking Center for Safe and Non-toxic Printmaking, until its close, a world leading academic studio unit in the development cultivation and education in low-toxic printmaking for artists and art instructors.  

MakingArtSafely website. 

Visit Photopolymer Gravure to read more on the process. 

Lúz Gallery & Workshops, is located in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Our facilities include a gallery, book-store, print-studio, and a darkroom. We have been teaching photography & book arts workshops around North America since 2009. We have recently launched Luz :: Kids + Teens to continue on our firm belief that art and the photographic arts can serve as a powerful medium for communication, expression and education.  

VICTORIA | getting here

If you will be coming from out of town, we have a few travel links + suggestions on our website >> here. If you are interested in shared-accommodation, let us know and we can put you in touch with other interested parties. Any other questions, let us know!

If you have any questions on this workshop or other Programs, please contact the studio;
Lúz Gallery | for the Photographic Arts.  1844 Oak Bay Ave. Victoria BC. Canada + 250 590-7557
workshops@luzgallery.com