One-Day Workshop
Saturday, February 14th
10:30am-3:00pm

This session is a follow-up to our previous workshop, but no prior experience is required. Students who attended the first session are welcome to continue building on their work, and new participants are encouraged to join.

Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg and Donald Saff’s 1985 collaboration in China—created after visiting the world’s oldest paper mill in Jingxian—this workshop introduces the basics of Chinese ink painting. Participants will work with traditional Chinese brushes and ink on Xuan paper to create large-scale paintings. The instructor draws on her own studies in Shanghai (2005–2009). Finished works may be embellished with gold and white inks layered over traditional black and indigo brushmarks.

Bio: Rosemary Cooley has been a member of Washington Printmakers Gallery since 2004, and a former president and present board member of the Washington Print Foundation. She has a keen interest in implementing her love of Art History into her printmaking methods, which include woodcut, linocut, intaglio, monoprint, lithograph, collagraph and artist’s books. She likes the layering of images which meld with her interest in Jungian theories. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and an M. Litt in Art History. She values having studied under many admired printmakers and painters in the United States, South Africa, China and Italy. Her artwork is in many collections in the US, France, Sweden, England, Belgium, South Africa, China, Japan and New Zealand.

Supplies: Fee covers Xuan paper, China inks, brushes and studio materials.
Size: Minimum 4 / maximum 8
Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Contact Email: rcooley1@mac.com / https://rosemarycooleyart.com/

Cost: $115 Members / $135 Non-members
*Material fee of $15 included

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