[alt-photo] Workshop Announcement Photopolymer Gravure & Precision Digital Positives March New Hampshire

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Please excuse this interruption of regular programming for the following announcement:


Printmaking Workshop
Photopolymer Gravure & Precision Digital Positives

Location: Renaissance Press, Ashuelot, New Hampshire

Date: March 13, 14, 15, 2010
This will be a first of its kind workshop presented by two masters of printmaking, Paul Taylor and Mark Nelson, each offering students their specialized expertise in various aspects of this process. 

Mark will cover the plate making process using the double exposure method, first exposing the plate to an aquatint screen and then exposing the plate with a film positive generated from and inkjet printer.  This unique approach to the double exposure method for creating photopolymer plates has been developed by Mark Nelson using his Precision Digital Negatives System.  Students will learn this simple three-step method of plate exposure and calibration that produces exact exposure times for aquatint and positive, the proper density for the inkjet positive and a Photoshop adjustment curve that properly adjusts the tonal scale of the final print image.  This approach produces plates with incredibly long tonal range, sharp detail, and very smooth prints.  This method produces highly predictable results—no need to continue to struggle with how to properly expose photopolymer plates!  Just wait until you see what these plates can really do!

Paul will cover the printmaking process.  This will include inks, ink preparation and conditioning, applying ink to the plate and wiping the plate.  Paul will also cover printmaking papers, preparing the paper for printing and how to finish prints.  Students will learn about adjusting presses and blankets and a variety of unique printing methods including, chine colle, oil rolls, tissue printing, and print varnishing.

Paul Taylor is a Master Photogravure Plate Maker, Printer and Director of Renaissance Press. Paul's work with early photographic process spans over thirty years of intensive work and study. He is the founder of The Rhode Island School of Design Press and has been teaching photogravure at RISD since 1993. Renaissance Press Prints are collected by Museums internationally. Artists published or produced at Renaissance include: Duane Michals, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joel Peter Witkin, Linda Connor, Robert Adams, Aaron Siskind, Roy DeCarava, Tom Baril, and many others.

Mark Nelson is the Author of Precision Digital Negatives for Silver and Other Alternative Photographic Processes.  He is a photographer and Master Printer with the beautiful Platinum & Palladium Process.  He has writing articles for books and magazines and has taught his method of printing with digital negatives to hundreds of photographers, including Dick Arentz, Sam Wang, Christina Anderson, David Michael Kennedy, Josephine Sacabo, Beth Moon, and Brigitte Carnochan.  Mark has now adapted his unique Precision Digital Negatives System to craft positives for both traditional copper plate photogravure and for the photopolymer plate gravure method.

Thanks For Listening!
Best Wishes,

Mark Nelson
Precision Digital Negatives
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