The purpose of this workshop is to learn a new technique of printmaking called solar etching and to see how it can be combined with other printmaking techniques such as monoprinting. Solarplate etching is a recent alternative etching process that uses sunlight and water instead of the traditional acids and grounds. Developed by master printmaker, Dan Welden, this innovative approach is spontaneous and easy, yet produces results which have attained the level of professionalism by several artists to be accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since the solarplate is a light sensitized polymer, it accepts all kinds of images and styles of working and is capable of yielding many impressions.

Tuition: HCAF Members $185; Non-members $205

Debbie Little Wilson studied art at the University of Texas at Austin and took up printmaking when she worked with Nellie Buel, who was a printmaker in Comfort, TX. Wilson has been a printmaker for 17 years. She has studied with several master printers, including Dan Welden who taught her the process of solar etching in 1997. She has incorporated this technique in her work since that time.

Debbie Little Wilson's website:   www.dlittlewilson.com