Portfolio Workshop December 2018

What: Portfolio Workshop

Where: Alternative Photo Services at 1840 Danforth Ave, Toronto

When: December 27-December 30 2018

Spots: Minimum 4 maximum 6

Cost: $1,000 plus tax + materials (material list provided upon request)

This workshop is for anyone who is looking to build a portfolio of alternative prints. Students will be printing their own work under the guidance of printer Bob Carnie using gum bichromate and/or platinum palladium.

Print sizes range from 8×10 all the way up to 20×28.

Once the prints are finished, they will be custom matted using cotton rag 4 ply board.

To sign up or ask a question, email Bob or Carissa

bob@alternativephotoservices.com

carissa@alternativephotoservices.com

Advanced Alt Workshop

Bob Carnie/ Gum Bichromate

December 27-30 2017

1840 Danforth Avenue, Toronto

This workshop is aimed at those people who have a desire to learn in a welcoming atmosphere how to make wonderful permanent prints and have:

-Taken a workshop with us before

-Can show that they exhibit the right knowledge base to not slow down the other printers.

The goal of this workshop will be to make a series of 15×20 prints on paper that are multiple layered images, Gum over Palladium, Duotone Gum, or Tri Tone Gum Bichromate. Your choice of process and look rather than teacher directed.

We will stay with this image size to maximize workflow for the course of four days. This size is a traditional aspect ratio for portfolio prints.

The hours of this workshop are from 8 am – 5 :30pm each day with group dinners considered after each long day.

Summer Gum Workshop!

photo cred/Monica Glitz

When: July 22/23

Cost: $375 plus tax

Gum Bichromate is one of the simplest and cost effective ways of making permanent colour and black and white prints.

Spend two days in the darkroom with Bob playing with this unique process.

Using your supplied images, we will make printing negatives via inkjet materials and then spend the time coating and printing.

This is not a formal technical workshop, but rather a simple two days of getting a handle of one of our most beautiful printing processes. Gum Bichromate with pigment is one of the oldest photographic processes and with the advent of digital technology, we can make simple negatives that 20 years ago would be out of the reach for most photographers.

This workshop is not intended to create perfect colour density or portfolio work, but rather bring together photographers with a variety of background to play with pigments to create a smorgasbord of possibilities. This workshop is for beginner print makers, no prerequisite is required.

By being exposed to multiple prints and methods of combining colour and black white pigments, each participant can gage whether this is a viable process for their practice.

Contact Carissa to sign up

carissa@dylanellisgallery.ca

February Alt Workshop!

Monica Glitz

What                                                                                                                                                 Platinum palladium and gum over palladium printmaking workshop

When                                                                                                                                                 February 11^th and 12^th | 9am-5pm

Where                                                                                                                                                      1840 Danforth

Cost                                                                                                                                                          $350 plus tax   Includes all materials

We know that through exhaustive research on print permanence that the noble             metals of platinum palladium will not fade, in fact the paper will decompose before the metal will go away. Platinum palladium and gum over palladium have the look, texture and feeling of work done in the very beginning of photographic printmaking. Contemporary prints cannot give us the colour palette and physical sense that these two processes offer. In both cases the paper is Hahnemühle Platinum. The noble metal of platinum palladium sinks into the very fabric of this paper and any resulting pigment is layered on top for an exquisite image.

Alternative Workshop Details and Schedule

 

Are you a photographer interested in learning how to make prints?
Join us for alternative printmaking workshops here at 1840 Danforth. This easy, beginner workshop teaches you the ins and outs of platinum palladium and multiple colour gum over. These historical printmaking processes can be done at your home or studio.

Summer/Fall Alt Workshops

Summer

July 1-3

Fall

September 3-5

 

There is an ongoing resurgence of historic printmaking processes: The need of artist to once again handle the workflow in a very simplistic way is what we a discussing. We are able to mix valued process of the past and combining them with new state of the art Photoshop and digital neg making methods.

December Workshop Video

 

Check out the video from our December Workshop!

Follow Gallery 44 member Heather as she transforms from student to teacher and demonstrates what she learned at the workshop!

Next workshop dates

July 1-3

September 3-5

Email Carissa for more details! carissa@dylanellisgallery.ca

Filming/Editing by Ari Pacpaco

 

Workshop Photos!

 

The December 31-January 3 Alternative Printmaking Workshop was a success!

We had participants from several US states and from outside of Ontario, all of whom had a blast with this hands on approach to printmaking.

Alternative Printmaking Workshop

Prepping for our Alternative Printmaking Workshop!

One spot remains!

Workshop taking place at 1840 Danforth, December 31-January 3.

Email Carissa for more details!

carissa@dylanellisgallery.ca