Workshop
Where the spell happens...

“May inspiration find you working” (Pablo Picasso)

The workshop is a large, quiet space with lots of light coming from several large windows and two skylights. There is equipment to facilitate a variety of traditional and new print processes including Intaglio, Monotype/Monoprint, Woodblock, Waterless Lithography, Silk-aquatint, Photopolymer Intaglio, as well as Artists Books, Drawing and Illustration.

TECHNICAL INFO
– Width: 4.00 meters
– Length: 20.00 m
– Height: 5.40 m
– Fan
– Air conditioning
– WI-Fi

TECHNIQUES
_ Waterless lithography and photolithography, kitchen lito, mokulito
_ Photo etching with photopolymer film
_ Silk-aquatint with water and oil based inks
_ Traditional and innovative intaglio: etching, burin, roulette, mezzotint, soft and hard ground, sugar lift, white ground, etc
_ Traditional and innovative monotype and monoprint, transfers
_ Woodcut , Linocut and Moku Hanga
_ Drawing and illustration
_ Digital prints/Lambda prints/CNC, laser cuts and thermal photolitho plates (CTP system) through our partners.

EQUIPMENT
_ An electric etching press (1.20 x 1.60 m)
_ A manual etching press (0.74 mx 1.20 m)
_ An old fashion hand book press (0.35 x 0.40 m)
_ Drying Rack (1.10 mx 0.78 m) 90 shelves
_  Work tables and countertops
_  Two steel flat files (1.30m x 1.00 m)
_  One water tray (1.10m x 0.85 m)
_  Two water sinks
_  Three acid resistant etching trays (50cm x 60 cm)
_ Aquatint screen for photopolymer

TOOLS
All basic materials and tools are available for the use of the residents:
_  Tools for Western and Japanese woodcut prints (gouges, wood carving sets, brushes, flat brushes and baren)
_  Tools for book binding (Teflon bone bending, hole puncher in different sizes, needles, etc)
_  Tools for Intaglio (points, burnishers,roulettes, scrapers, Diamond scribe, burins, etc)
_  Rollers: There are two  50 cm length hand roll-up roller ( 60 Dr and 35 Dr), a variety of soft rubber _  Speedball brayers (30 Dr), several firm polyurethane brayers (40 Dr) and a light 24″ Chamaleon roller for monotype.

MATERIALS AVAILABLES– There are water, oil and rubber based inks
_ Proof paper, Canson Edition paper (assorted colors, 56×76 cm) and some Chinese papers for Chine collé
_ Tarlatan and cleaning rags
_ Eco cleaners, soap, solvents
_ Materials for book binding (acid free glue, special threads, folders, etc)
_ Plates for photolithography (maximum size 55 x 66 cm)
_ Silk-Aquatint plates
_ Assorted sizes acrylic plates for monotypes