Students Bring:

• Ideas of images or patterns to print

• Your favorite clay working tools especially plastic and rubber ribs and a small sponge

• Bucket

• Spray bottle

• Towel

• Apron

• Scissors

• Pencils and pens

• Sketchbook or notebook

• Thin watercolor or bamboo brushes for drawing with underglaze and drawing fluid

• Bagged lunch. Light snacks are provided

• Before the class starts, please email me up to 3 JPEG’s of a black-and-white images that you would like to use with the mini EZScreens. I’ll print it out on a transparency in time for the workshop. Here is the website for EZScreens so you can get an idea of what we’re doing. Your drawing or image needs to be simple and with thick-ish lines to make a good screen. No pencil lines or shading. Consider drawing with a Sharpie or perhaps you might find some black and white clip art on line that you like. Your image should be about the size of an index card, 3” x 5.”

Optional:

• Slip trailers or plastic squeezie bottle/ underglaze applicators

• Cutting mat

• Xacto knife for cutting stencils

• Newsprint pad

• Hair dryer

Susan Will Provide:

• One silk screen for each student to use and take home

• Extra silk screens for sharing and demo purposes

• Squeegees to share

• Variety of underglazes for printing and drawing

• Some underglaze applicators and slip trailers for students to try

• Variety of colored slips to share

• Newsprint sheets

• Hair dryers

• EZ Screens and items needed to expose them: plastic bins for water; EZ Screen “exposure units;”

• clothesline and clothespins; blue painters tape

• Rubylyth

• Extra cutting mats

• Extra X-actos

• Drawing fluid and screen filler

• Scoop coater

• Screen filler remover

• Pressure washer

• Scrub brushes for cleaning screens

If you are traveling by plane, Double Island Studio may be able to accommodate you with various materials and tools. Email us HERE.