SATURDAY, February 28th, 2026
9:00 – 3:30 Includes one-hour lunch break
Ages 18+
$120
This course will focus on the carving of relief forms on Linoleum in mono-color ( black ink will be used).
While all art forms foster experimentation, printmaking can be particularly spontaneous and surprising. This is a course for home studios artists who may have encountered questions and difficulties, intermediate printmakers, and the absolute beginners. All who are interested in learning more about the art form of carving and printing images.
The day will be a condensed presentation of relief printing in black and white from soup to nuts. Allowing for many questions and tips for everything needed to create beautiful prints at home in a small space with good materials.
Introduction to the materials, tools, inks, methods of carving and registration, and clean-up.
Saturday, Full day:
9am – 12pm
Morning: Intro to the tools and materials needed for carving. The morning project will be a completed carved Linoleum block that can be printed in the afternoon.
12: 30 pm – 3:30 pm
Afternoon: intro to paper, inking, registration, non- press printing and presentation of your print. As well as clean-up methods.
Lulu Wootton
My philosophy – “you can’t make art unless you do art” – has led me down a joyful path of discovery into a world of rich colors and breathtaking moments: a full, creative, expressive, meaningful world. Though not always accessible as one would wish!
Art, I believe, is not the perfection of technique – it is being able to create believability. Does it sing? Does it ping? Does it take you somewhere?
To keep my art fresh and alive I quote Popeye – saying: “I Yam what I Yam.” I do the art I can while continuing to learn more so I can talk the language better. Authenticity of feeling combined with techniques and methods form the backbone of my printmaking.
I create my relief prints on linoleum. I especially enjoy making multi-color relief prints. - when unexpected or startling unplanned images emerge from the carved lines and color overlays.
Called whimsical, my prints are full of consciousness and are impacted by color. They emerge from life’s journeys - both emotional and place based. They are my own images. They use shape, textures, colors and form to speak of joy, beauty, toil, and humor.
I first encountered printing in a New Mexico Studio at Highlands University where I studied for two years. This was after I had studied basics of art and Painting at Monserrat College of Art. Later, during Covid, I concentrated on online learning at the Art Students League of New York.
My earlier profession had not allowed much time for art – but as I traveled across the United States gathering data for national social science studies, putting in many hours on the phone and road, I studied people, places and belief systems, from which much of my art has emerged. Braiding that with years of also operating a wholesale-and- destination- wedding flower farm allowed color and aesthetics of nature to blend into my images.
In my home studio in Craftsbury, Vermont I occasionally, and happily, teach print workshops. I have also taught local workshops at Sterling College and Wonder Arts. As a member of Caspian Arts, I have shown my work in NEK for many years and market online (www.luluwoot@gmail.com) , through craft fairs, auctions and from my studio.
In print work there is always room for subtle evocative statements to resonate. I seek a balance to the current political brutality with images that depict the joy, kindness, grace, and respect that are still strong elements of our lives today - despite the many confusions and fears of our era