Preserving and promoting the art of printmaking.
Classes
Tiger Lily Press is a great local resource to obtain and maintain a full and enriching experience with traditional printmaking processes, guiding personal expression. You'll be able to tap into hands-on printmakers and artistic expertise. Many classes we offer provide you with the relevant, value-added history of each class' medium, while assisting you in interpreting the topic or medium within your own visual language.
We are also committed to extending action-oriented involvement in our communities, so that printmaking touches the lives of all who become our customers. New processes and technologies are also being explored as offerings, so that trends and innovative image making can be integrated within our legacy of hand-pulled media. Check back often as we update this page as classes are offered and fulfilled.
Designing and Printing the Poster
4-day Course
This is a class that we have offered in the past. Drop us a line if you would like to see it offered again!
Instructor
DESCRIPTION
This course will give you the tools to design a beautiful AND functional poster. Posters are not paintings, they are often created in response to or in service of a current event (a concert, a call to action/protest, an annual event, etc.). Therefore the poster must service its function within limited time and often limited means (budgetary limitations that directly effect the printing process). We will learn to creatively work with and against these parameters. The best posters are usually few colors, in order to serve as quick reads that leave lasting impressions.
Topics Covered
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Poster history, basic tenets of effective and efficient image-making, and color theory
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Creating visual impact within limitations of few colors and brief timeline
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Taking your poster from digital final to print (pre-press and separations)
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Basic rules and best practices of photo emulsion screen printing
Course Agenda
Day 1: Posters / Graphic Design overview and conversation. Image-sourcing, collaging, sketching and/or color-blocking for your poster. Day 2: Poster design work day. Poster to be completed and separated for films by start of Day 3. Day 3: Screen burning, color mixing, printing your edition. Day 4: Printing & trimming your edition. Poster hanging and crit/conversation with light drinks and snacks.
Materials
Provided by TLP Class Fees (2) 21 x 27” screen (230 yellow mesh) (1) 14” squeegee Poster stock, ink (+ mixing sticks and additives), screens, press, squeegees, emulsion. Films, image-source materials (Cryptogram).
Provided by Student Sketchbook/paper, preferred drawing/mark-making materials, laptop or desktop computer with adobe illustrator and photoshop, any additional image-sourcing materials you may have and want to use.
HELPFUL SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite, basic image-making / composition, screenprinting experience and/or basic understanding of printmaking processes
Jon Flannery
Jon Flannery is an artist/printmaker living and working in Cincinnati. He operates Cryptogram, an image-making studio in Northside. Specializing in graphic design and illustration often through the vehicle of print, the studio focuses on working with independent clients big and small. Through in-house silkscreen, there is an emphasis on the printed poster, and working with artists to produce singular and collaborative editions.
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Collage on a Press
Move It Around! Paste It Down!
The March 22, 29 and April 5 Saturday sessions are now completed. Check out some photos. Check back to see our spring and summer lineup. In the meantime, read below about what was covered in the workshop. Let us know if you'd like to see it repeated!
Course Description
Free yourself and your art practice! Collage is an exciting artform that allows for limitless design possibilities. Meditative or exuberant, abstract or figurative…you are in charge!
This introductory workshop will be a jam-packed, fun, hands-on printmaking experience with design guidance from two professional graphic designers turned printmakers.
Each participant can expect to leave with their own ready-to-frame colorful collage, plus a sampling of their unique, printed specialty papers.
Topics Covered
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Monotype printmaking techniques
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Chine collé and other collage methods using the press
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Basic design and composition theory
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Discussion of safe and sustainable practices
About the Instructors
Maureen George graduated with a BFA from Ohio State and worked as an art therapist for five years. Following that, she took design courses in Dayton, and worked in Chicago, Tampa, Los Angeles, SF Bay Area, and Washington DC. When she moved to the Bay Area, she learned monotype in Berkeley. She moved again and worked as an Associate Creative Director in DC while taking workshops in other printmaking techniques at Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA.
Shelley Creech worked as a graphic designer in New York City, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. She earned her BFA at the University of Dayton, studied painting at the Art Students League in NYC, and also taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Shelley has taken various printmaking, bookbinding and paper-making workshops at Snowfarm in Massachusetts, Arrowmont in Tennessee, Craftsummer at Miami University along with several classes at Tiger Lily Press.