Monotype: Visions, Marks, and Impressions with Jorge Vara Hernandez

Monotype: Visions, Marks, and Impressions with Jorge Vara Hernandez

Class | Currently Unavailable

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Room 3B
All Levels
9/22/2025-12/1/2025
6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Mon
$555.00

Monotype: Visions, Marks, and Impressions with Jorge Vara Hernandez

Class | Currently Unavailable

Students will receive an overview of the Monotype printmaking process to create their own one-of-a-kind Monotypes. Using traditional materials students will learn how to use an intaglio printing press and how to prepare copper plates and paper to be ready for printing. Additionally, we will cover additive and reductive monotype techniques, the Ghost Print, use of mediums to adjust the properties of etching ink, creating texture, and Chine Collé. Monotype is a printmaking process that blends both the beauty of a painter’s touch and the permanence of a graphic mark. The medium lends itself to spontaneity and experimentation; this course will benefit the artist looking to both study their subject and become looser, and to take more risks.

  • WSS is closed the week of Thanksgiving, all classes will conclude the first week of December.

  • Materials List - These are the materials you will need to bring with you for this class.


    • BFK Rives Printmaking Paper - 22" x 30", White, 250 gsm, 5 sheets
    • Copper Etching Plate - 6" x 9" x 0.50”
    • Enkay Flat Bastard File - 10"
    • Table Clamp—2 clamps
    • Gamblin Etching Ink - Portland Black
    • Gamblin Burnt Plate Oil #2 
    • Blick Studio Newsprint Pad - 18" x 24"
    • Metal Palette Cup 
    • Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits
    • Oil Painting Brushes—Mainly stiff bristled– flat (size 8 and 12), bright (size 12), round (size 6)—I recommend the Blick Scholastic White Hog Bristle Set - Set of 6.
    • Painters Tape 1 inch—any color is fine
    • Plastic Gloves
    • Blue Shop Towels
    • Q-Tips—regular Q-Tips are fine, but it will be better to get the Q-Tips with a point.
    • Mod Podge 4 oz
    • Black Ink Thai Unryu - 25" x 37", Blue Chiffon — 1 Sheet—you can choose any color you’d like but just make sure it is a light-colored Kozo paper. I recommend choosing either the blue chiffon or cream option from this brand.
    • Mop Brush — I recommend Silver Brush-White Goat Silver Mop Brush - Round, Size 10, Short Handle

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Jorge Vara Hernandez