Layers & Impressions: Encaustic and Lithography in Action

This short demo series introduces two distinct printmaking and painting techniques: lithography and encaustic.

In the first demonstration (1pm-2:30pm), Amy will share with you the worlds of lithography. Stone Lithography is the process of drawing on a prepared limestone block with a grease pencil (or brush), then using ink that adheres to the drawing to transfer that image to paper when run through a press. The drawings are made with a sharpened lithographic crayon on a prepared limestone block. The fine, even grain makes stone the perfect medium for highly detailed drawings. This texture allows the artist to produce a wide range of distinctly different tones. The stones are reused: after an edition is printed, the image is ground off and the stone is ready for a new drawing. Stone lithography was invented around 1796 in Germany) as an economical method for printing scripts. Based on the chemical principle that grease and water repel each other, it uses porous limestone to hold…