Want to get started with monotype or learn to successfully combine various media using monotype? This engaging workshop will use monotype as the basis for layering and creating unique as well as editioned prints. We will start with basic additive and reductive monotype techniques and then develop these using a variety of techniques and media. We will introduce you to the use of stencils, masking, frottage, acrylic markers, water-soluble ink and graphite pencils. These techniques will layer colors and values to create results reflecting both the planning and the open experimental aspect of monotype printing.
Instructor Bio:
Linda Chappel’s work focuses on landscape, wildlife and the myths that humans form to mediate our interactions with the environment. Although she has worked in a range of media, her current work is primarily 2D printmaking, painting and mixed media.
Her formal studies began at the University of Madison, Wisconsin where she was fortunate to study with Dan Reitz, George Cramer and Truman Lowe. She graduated from Madison with a degree in the Fine Arts in 1986. She was awarded an MA in Art History in 1996 and specialized in Mexican art history and 19th century landscape painting. Linda is an instructor in Art and Art History at Tohono O’odham Community College in Sells, Arizona. She shows her art work regionally in the Southwest and was selected for the Arizona Biannual in 2024. Her most recent project is the MERGE art community space, which opened in Silver City in 2026.