Join us at Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine on Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 (from 10 AM – 3 PM) for a Printmaking Without a Press: Direct Trace Monotypes Workshop led by Ogunquit Art Association artist-member Jane Petschek.

Suggested Workshop donation: $75

Pre-registration recommended. Call Barn Gallery: 207-646-8400.

I am a professional printmaker and active studio artist at Running With Scissors Art Studios in Portland Maine. I was always intrigued by art, and after retiring from an academic career in biology, I learned printmaking through continuing education classes. I love creating prints using a variety of techniques and I enjoy teaching these skills to others!

This is a fun class and I encourage all levels of art participants to join me as we explore a printmaking technique called Direct Trace Monotype that does not need a press. I will demonstrate how to set up and create a direct trace monotype, and offer guidance to help you achieve nice prints and learn this process. This class will allow you to explore a variety of materials and mark-making to create several prints and their ghosts!

Direct Trace Monotypes are a kind of print that is “pulled” from a drawing made on an inked Plexiglas plate. This art process is a fun and easy way to create a unique print that has beautiful line quality similar to a soft-ground etching or charcoal drawing. Your source material can be a drawing, sketch, photograph or your imagination. This method is extremely flexible and works well for those who prefer to work abstractly, spontaneously, and for those who prefer to use a reference drawing or photo. Depending on time, we may be able to explore printing with colored inks, and create “ghost prints” – transferring the negative image left on the inked plexiglass onto a mulberry sheet by hand burnishing. It should be possible for each student to make several unique prints.

Materials you will need to bring to the workshop:
Your drawings, sketches or simple photographs, 8” x 10” or 6” x 8” work well for this workshop

Pencils, pens, some colored pencils, other mark-making tools (chopstick, pinecone, textured papers or objects that can be pressed or rolled against a surface; charcoal paper)

Eraser, a 12” or 24” ruler (to set borders for your print; can also be used as a leaning bridge)

Drawing paper

Tracing paper, (9” x 12” or similar works well for our format)

Easy lift Masking or Painter’s tape

Leaning Bridge – if you have one, please bring it! It is helpful to rest your hand over the print in progress to avoid unwanted marks
Work Apron or clothes that might get inky

I will provide ink (Charbonnel water-washable ink), plexiglass, brayers, ink knives, ink palette, disk barens, and other printmaking tools

Printmaking Without a Press: Direct Trace Monotypes Workshop by Jane Petschek
— Tuesday, August 18 (From 10 AM – 3 PM)
— Suggested donation: $75

Pre-registration recommended. Call Barn Gallery: 207-646-8400.

Jane Petschek pursued her interests in art and printmaking through continuing education classes at Cleveland Institute of Art, Art Students League of Denver, Maine College of Art, and community college art courses. She was a member printmaking artist at Zygote Press in Cleveland OH and currently makes prints in her studio at Running With Scissors Art Studios in Portland ME. Jane’s intaglio prints have been juried into national and regional exhibitions, including the Butler Institute of American Art Mid-year Show (Youngstown OH), The Danforth Museum Annual Exhibition (Framingham MA) and PenBay Maine Health Hospital Art Exhibition Program (Camden ME). In 2022 she was juried in as a member of The Boston Printmakers, and as a Graphic Artist at Ogunquit Art Association, where she exhibits her prints at the Barn Gallery.

Learn more about the Barn Gallery 2026 Schedule: barngallery.org/2026-season