The meeting proposes a direct involvement of the whole family in the experience of engraving.
Everyone will be able to have an approach to the technique in a simple way. Each participant will be able to engrave their own design on the zinc plate (by scratching the protective paint). The mordant used is not toxic.
The whole family will obtain a print of their own engraved design, using the “Bendini” chalcographic press.
stages:
– engraving of the drawing
– bath in the bite
– paper bath
– printing of the matrix with the press

by booking two days in advance

The total cost is € 250, it includes all materials.
Children aged 5 and over can participate.
Duration of the meeting 2 + 2 hours with intermission

Silvia Borgogni creator and project manager.
Info:silvia.borgogni@gmail.com

The gum print, or gum printing, is a technique that with relatively poor means (a photocopy, shellac and gum arabic), allows us to create a very limited edition of prints.

The image you decide to use with the “gum print” can be a drawing, a photograph, a collage. Excellent results are obtained with well-defined and contrasted images.

The cost for a single participant is € 120, it includes all materials. Full time, with a break for lunch.
The cost for two participants is € 220.

Important note: you need a very contrasted image in the light / dark.

Preparation of materials:

You make a toner photocopy of the work you want to do, with the gum print, ________________________________________

The print:

We then proceed to the printing: taking a Plexiglas, the photocopy and the gum arabic prepared the previous evening we start the work. You take two containers, in one you put the gum arabic, in the other tap water. With a sponge, the gum arabic is passed over the Plexiglas, which will act as a support for the photocopy, so that the photocopy is then adherent to said support and does not come off during the inking phase.
The photocopy is then applied on the plexiglass and the gum arabic is passed over the entire surface of the image, in this way the toner will be receptive towards the greasy ink while the part of the image that must remain white will reject the ink.
We will discover the rest together during the workshop.

monotype; technique it literally means “one footprint”.

The meeting proposes a direct involvement of the whole family in the monotype experience, as a stimulus to communication and creativity of adults and children through the use of this simple technique.
Each participant will be given a small palette of colors or a plexiglass tablet already inked where they can draw their own drawing.
The whole family will get a monotype print.

The total cost is € 130, it includes all materials.
Children from 5 years old can participate.
Duration of the meeting about 1 hour.

Silvia Borgogni creator and project manager

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