About the Workshop
Learn how to turn your digital illustrations into vibrant riso prints using ink overlays!
Join Outlet PDX in collaboration with Wacom Experience PDX for a fun exploration of digital illustration and risograph printing! This workshop will start with Leland Vaughan, illustrator and co-owner of Outlet, sharing their work, inspiration, and process with a brief instructional on digital illustration as it relates to risograph printing. Participants will have access to and guidance with Wacom’s digital tools and tablets and time to work on their own digital illustration projects with feedback from folks experienced with translating digital art to beautiful risograph prints.
Participants will have a week to work on finishing a digital illustration following the workshop at Wacom Experience Center, and then will meet at Outlet’s studio in NE Portland to see these illustrations come to life as 3 color prints! Each person will leave with an edition of vibrant risograph prints, plus other takeaways, digital downloads, and access to Outlet’s studio for future risograph projects.
Class Times & Locations
PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-part series that meets both Saturday 8/17 (at the Wacom Experience Center) and Saturday 8/24 (at Outlet). Day two is divided into two groups - please make sure you take note of the time you are registering for!
DAY ONE
Saturday 8/17 10am-2pm
@ Wacom Experience Center (1455 NW Irving St, Ste 110)
FREE with RSVP (below)
DAY TWO (select one)
Saturday 8/24 10am-12:30pm
@ Outlet PDX (2500 NE Sandy Blvd Ste E)
OR
Saturday 8/24 1:30pm-4pm
@ Outlet PDX (2500 NE Sandy Blvd Ste E)
These are all risograph prints created using digital illustration!
Supplies Needed
Attendees will have access to an entire suite of digital illustration tools, provided free by the Wacom Experience Center, though you’re also welcome to bring your preferred digital illustration tools.
Adobe Photoshop will also be used as an example by the instructor but isn’t required.
The goal of this workshop is to create an illustration from start to finish, however you’re welcome to bring existing illustrations to work on if you’d like.
Prerequisites
Participants must attend both the intro class at Wacom Experience Center and printing class at Outlet.
Skill Level
Any! No risograph experience required.
Workshop Fee & Ticketing
The workshop fee is on a sliding scale of $75-$100 (the ticket is donation, so please input your price at check out). Price includes all printing and paper for the workshop, a set of your prints to take home with you, a collection of all prints made during the class. Access to the Wacom Experience Center is provided for free. Scholarships available.
Covid Safety Protocols
We're still requiring masks at Outlet during classes and events to keep our most vulnerable community members safe. There will be no more than 8 attendees total, plus the instructor(s). We'll be taking precautions by opening our space (weather permitting), sanitizing surfaces, and maintaining as much distance as we can.
Masks are optional but encouraged at the Wacom Experience Center.
About the Instructor
Leland Vaughan is a graphic designer, illustrator, and the co-owner of Outlet! They have been working on a yearly project since 2020 involving recreating vintage packaging and labels - from matchbooks to orchard boxes to stamps. They’re enchanted with older printmaking methods and how they can translate those to risograph. Outlet is their second home and they love spreading the joy of riso, especially when it comes to all of the beautiful overlays and ink colors that this unique printing method can give!
About Outlet
Outlet is a risograph press and the studio of Kate Bingaman-Burt and Leland Vaughan! We print stuff, host workshops, make zines, and facilitate pop-ups and other events. We do a lot of different things - we’re part risograph print shop, part store, part illustration studio, part workshop & pop-up event space, part community resource, and part zine library!
About the Wacom Experience Center
The Wacom Experience Center Portland, aka WacomXPDX is the living room for the creative, tech and start-up communities in Portland, Or. The space is equal parts product showroom and innovative facilitation space for creative minds of all kinds, industries and skill sets.
WacomXPDX is open to the public and to anyone looking to take their creativity to the next level. WacomXPDX hosts a series of events, workshops, lectures and more on topics ranging from software development, thought leadership in the tech industry, and deep dives into the creative process.
