Zavorskas Monotype, Etching, and Painting Workshops 2010

Monotype Workshops in Providence, Rhode Island

and Provincetown Art Association & Museum, MA

Ancestral Spirits  1994  monotype 25x18"

Viscosity Monotype

Providence Art Club, Providence, Rhode Island

October 16 -17, 2010

Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Massachusetts

www.paam.org

November 13 -14, 2010

Explore experimental and contemporary printmaking techniques using viscosity layering of inks and transfer

imagery. Viscosity is the flowability of a liquid, for example, molasses flows slower and thicker than melted butter. In viscosity inking, spontaneous painting and drawing approaches are applied to flat or textured plates using modified inks. Viscous (thicker) ink is repelled by oily (buttery soft) ink and jumps onto the roller or brayer! This magical image can be transferred to other plates or rolled onto a previous print, or re-rolled onto a single plate, and passed through the press once only as with regular monotypes. The possibilities are endless and provocative.  Glistening layers of radiant oil ink create truly unique images with depth, mystery,veils of memory and possibilities. Beginners will be rewarded with magical surprises.

Note: Clean-up will be with vegetable oil or rubbing alcohol or Simple Green, no harsh solvents. 

      Lab fee includes inks and basic supplies.

Painting Workshops in Truro

                                                          WInd Whipped Dunes  2009    oil/linen/birch  8x10"

Documenting the Familiar: Landscape Painting

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
May 3, 10, 17, 24,      Mondays  9 - 12pm

Quirks and Oddities in Nature: Landscape Painting

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

SPECIAL TWO WEEK WORKSHOP

August 16-20, August 23-27    Mon – Fri., 9 - 12pm
  www.castlehill.org

Students will paint from direct observation in nature at selected sites in Truro, Wellfleet and Provincetown.

The complexity and diversity of a beloved and familiar narrow land surrounded and shaped by water, wind,

rain and gravity will be explored, with emphasis on form, content, composition and paint application.

There will be demos and individual discussion as the week progresses, all levels are welcome.

Joyce Zavorskas’ recent paintings of erosional landforms have been included in juried exhibitions

at the Copley Society and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and group shows at

Nave Gallery, Somerville, and Durand Gallery, MassArt.  A solo exhibition at

Cape Cod Museum of Art in August 2011 will feature new paintings focusing on the uncertainties

and rhythmic oddities of natural forms. Zavorskas maintains painting and printmaking studios

in Orleans, after 10 years at Fenway Studios in Boston, and has taught printmaking

at numerous colleges,museums and art centers, including Simmons College, Provincetown Art

Associationand Museum, Truro Center for the Arts and Cape Cod Community College.