From Still Life to Print Workshop

Artist: Italian Artist Colleen Corradi Brannigan

This intensive five-day workshop uses still life as a starting point for experimental printmaking. Participants will explore monotype, monoprint, collagraph, linocut, and unconventional matrices such as Tetra Pak, learning to combine processes, work with or without a press, and develop personal, hybrid prints. The workshop is entirely non-toxic.

Day 1 – Composition & Line
Explore strong visual structure through composition studies, followed by expressive line work using direct tracing monotype techniques.

Day 2 – Tone & Experimental Monotype
Develop tonal contrast and dynamic mark-making using additive and subtractive monotype methods, incorporating stencils and found materials.

Day 3 – Collagraph & Surface
Create textured collagraph plates using found and unconventional materials, while exploring overprinting, registration, and layering with ghost prints.

Days 4 & 5 – Linocut & Hybrid Prints
Learn linocutting and reduction linocut techniques, focusing on colour layering and registration, then integrate linocut with earlier processes to produce hybrid prints.

Throughout the workshop, participants receive ongoing guidance and constructive feedback, supporting experimentation from initial sketches through to resolved prints.