Jeff Stellick
Workshops
The following is a list of media and techniques that I have used in my professional career as an artist and art teacher.  I am capable of giving lectures, demonstrations, workshops, and classes in any and all of these media and/or specific techniques.  I can adapt my teaching methods to the level of the students involved whether they are just looking for an introductory overview or an in-depth understanding of a particular medium.

    Printmaking Workshops
        · Monoprint and Monotype
        · Relief Prints
        · Engraving
        · Etching
        · Lithography
   Papermaking Workshops
 

    Printmaking
1. Monoprint and Monotype
     1. Monoprint and Monotype

I have presented a number of monoprint workshops using traditional, additive and subtractive methods, a unique form of monoprints using Caran d’ache and techniques using magazine solvent transfers.

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2. Relief Prints:  linocut and woodcut
     2. Relief Prints:  linocut and woodcut

I have given workshops in relief printing covering all aspects of the medium:  image transfer and development, block cutting tools and techniques, basic printing techniques (using both oil-based & water-based inks) and various colour printing techniques (e.g. Jig-saw, multi-plate & stencil methods)

3. Engraving
     3. Engraving

I have taught several courses covering the basic elements of engraving including:  plate preparation (copper, zinc & soft steel), image transfer techniques and development, line and tone engraving using engraving and mezzotint tools, printing press and printing techniques, and printing editions and unique prints.

4. Etching
     4. Etching

Etching is a complex medium but can be successfully demonstrated in a short time period.  Workshops and courses touch on a full range of technical areas including plate preparation, image transfer techniques, safe use of grounds and acids, etching tools, line & tone engraving (aquatint), and basic printing.  Specialized workshops can be given to advanced students in special  processes such as spit-biting, photo-etching, photocopy transfers, colour printing techniques and hand-colouring.

5. Lithography
     5. Lithography

Lithography is the most versatile and most complex printmaking technique.  It involves planographic printing on litho stones and plates.  This technique can be successfully demonstrated in a short period of time.  For workshop purposes it is best suited to a long workshop situation.  Material covered in a workshop include stone graining and preparation, basic drawing materials, image transfer and development, chemistry and processing of the lithographic image, basic printing techniques and specialized techniques.

Papermaking
   Papermaking

Papermaking is a "new" medium being used by more and more artists as a medium in and of itself.  The basic techniques of papermaking can be demonstrated in a short period of time or presented in a short worksop situation, but it is better to present this workshop in a long workshop setting.  Topics covered in a workshop include the history of paper, basic materials, basic equipment, fibres and materials, preparation of pulp, sheet-forming, pressing and drying, watermarks, formation techniques such as inclusion and collage, dyeing pulp, pulp "painting", and using paper as a sculpture medium.