Introduction to Drypoint Etching with Vicky Tomayko

Learn the basics of drypoint etching in two easy hands-on sessions. It's a printmaking medium perfect for the artist or beginner who likes to draw and wants to print multiples images in a direct manner. No difficult process or chemicals. This workshop includes studio access until 4pm on Monday.

The fully stocked "green" printmaking studio has 3 etching presses suitable for intaglio, stencil, or relief work, oil based inks, printmaking papers, a variety of brayers, and a large diameter roller. The large roller is great for flat color and transferring images. Demonstrations will be based on individual needs and desires.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist/printmaker living in Truro. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has a MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University. In addition to PAAM, she teaches at Cape Cod Community College and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer Program. She manages the print studio for the Fine Arts Work Center during the seven-month residency program, and during the Massachusetts College of Art Low Residency Masters Program, providing workshops and one-on-one instruction. She was an artist-in-residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for ten years. Tomayko was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College, 1979 through 1981. She is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.

Of this class, one student noted the overall artistic freedom, affordabaility as well as remarking, Tomayko is nonjudgemental, encouraging, and has great energy.