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Waitlist – Layered Impressions: Exploring Texture & Pattern in Gel Print Monotypes
Create unique gel plate prints using acrylics as you explore texture, color layering, and playful monoprinting techniques. All materials provided.
What you’ll do
Create beautiful, one-of-a-kind designs on paper using a gel plate and acrylic paint. Mixed media artist Catherine Cruz will guide you through the basics of this playful printing process, sharing her techniques for building texture, layering colors, and creating unique designs. You will produce a collection of unique prints—perfect for use in collage, mixed media artwork, or handmade cards. This workshop is ideal for anyone curious about this exciting monoprinting method and is perfectly suited for beginners.
What you’ll get from this workshop:
- Methods for applying paint and pulling successful prints
- Techniques for creating unique and intricate layered designs
- Creative use of mark-making tools and masks
- Strategies for combining techniques
All materials are provided: Gel plate, brayer roller, acrylic paint, stencils, mark-making tools, paper.
A variety of papers will be provided but you are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to experiment on. Examples of suitable papers include tissue paper, Japanese rice papers, calligraphy paper, recycled book pages, and basically any paper that is porous and absorbent.
Class will start with a demonstration so please arrive a few minutes early to get set up so we can start on time. We will take a short lunch break from 12:30pm-1:00pm so kindly bring your lunch and a beverage.
Membership has its benefits
All Silver Memberships and above receive 10% off the registration cost for any class purchase over $40.
Materials fees are not discounted.
Become a member today and find community, connection, and creativity.
Location
About your Instructor
Catherine Cruz
Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist whose work is informed by textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She holds a Bachelor of Science in interior design and she has worked in the field of architectural design and green building certification for over 25 years. Since 2019, Catherine has taught collage and mixed media workshops in the Bay Area and in France and this is her fifth year in Sonoma County. Her studio is located in Sebastopol and she participates in Art Trails Open Studios.
You may contact Catherine at [email protected]. Check out her other classes at www.beyouartstudio.com/workshops
www.beyouartstudio.com
@beyou.art.studio
Class FAQ
We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 days’ notice, we will not be able to provide refunds, due to our contractual obligations and material purchases for each class.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee (minus the payment processing and services fee), or credit towards a future class. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
All credits must be used within 1 year.
You can view our full class policies and guidelines here.
The Sonoma Community Center is committed to creating an accessible learning environment. If you require any special considerations(medical, physical, learning) please share them with Sean Baskin, Program Associate, by emailing him at [email protected] so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.
Late additions to any program, class, or workshop that has already begun will be allowed on a per-case basis depending upon the Program Director & instructors approval. Late additions will have to pay the full registration cost of the class, along with any materials fees, and will not be prorated for the time missed. You may reach out to the program directors directly, or the Program Associate Sean Baskin at [email protected] to request a late addition.
We are always looking for new instructors. You can fill out the form directly here.
Waitlist – Layered Impressions: Exploring Texture & Pattern in Gel Print Monotypes
Create unique gel plate prints using acrylics as you explore texture, color layering, and playful monoprinting techniques. All materials provided.
Schedule
Saturday, February 21, 2026
11:00 Am – 3:00 PM
This Session
Saturday, February 21, 2026 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Experience Level
All-Levels, Beginning, Intermediate and AdvancedAge(s)
16, 17 and 18-over$115 – Registration Cost
$10 – Materials Fee
$125 – Total Registration Cost
