Mon, 07/30/2018 - 9:00pm

Linoleum Block Printing Workshop

with Holly Berry

Sunday, September 16, 2018

9:30 am - 4 pm

$95 includes all materials and delicious home-cooked lunch!

Limited to 10 participants

Learn the basics of this engaging craft and go home with prints of your very own design!

Block printing is a form of relief printing, the oldest, most simple and direct approach to making an impression. Experience all aspects of the process… from handling the cutting tools through a series of explorative exercises…to designing, inking and printing your own images by hand.

Hand-pulled prints are not reproductions as each impression is individually inked and printed from the same block or set of blocks which have first been designed and carved by the artist. The final design can be expressed in the areas cut away (negative) or on the remaining raised surface (positive) or in both.

Bring an idea or simple design to make a 4 x 6 or 4 x 4 image to carve and print from battleship linoleum. Holly will use her own work and that of others as an introduction and will help you problem solve each aspect of the process along the way.

Punch Needle Rug-hooking Workshop

with Holly Berry

Sunday, October 14, 2018

9:30 am - 4 pm

$95 includes all materials and delicious home-cooked lunch!

Limited to 10 participants

Spend the day making a punch needle project for your home or gift giving!

Learn how to use a punch needle with colorful wool rug yarn to create many types of projects and heirlooms.

This method of rug hooking, also known as the “New England Style” has been around for about 150 years. Following a pattern drawn on backing material (monks cloth), yarn is threaded through a punch needle, then poked through the backing.

Loops of yarn formed on the front create the design. The end result is similar to traditional rug hooking.

Holly will share samples of her work and that of others as an introduction.

She has many patterns to choose from to make an 8 x 8 wallhanging/mat/pillowtop

or will help you create your own design.

Biography

Holly Berry in an illustrator and block printmaker living in Waldoboro.

A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design she was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission for Printmaking. Her work was recently part of the 2017 Maine-Aomori Japan Print Exchange and has been included in exhibits nation wide.

Along side making block prints, Holly illustrates children’s picture books and enjoys making punch-needle rugs. www.hollyberrydesign.com

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