Video

LEAP – Learning from Experience As Printmakers

Learn from Experience as Printmakers with the NPS LEAP videos! CLICK HERE to view our experimental LEAP program where we post video of member nature printing demos and recordings of live zoom interviews for our NPS oral history project.

Get some of the 2022 Acadia workshop here! Our workshop on the Schoodic peninsula may have been cancelled, but many instructors have offered to teach live Zoom classes or give recorded demonstrations anyway. We are experimenting with this form and will send email with information about new classes and demos.

If you aren’t an NPS member, but would like to take a class (awesome!), or would like our current schedule, contact NPS president Sue Fierston: [email protected].

$40 LEAP Zoom Class for members – Live or recorded Zoom class, taught by an NPS member, running 1.5 to 3 hours. The instructor will email you with supply information when you register.

$25 LEAP recorded demonstration for members – Recorded demo, 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Demos will be posted to the LEAP Live site. The instructor will be available for email questions and possibly for a one-time Zoom Q&A with a larger group, we are working out the details now.

Membership in the Nature Printing Society is $50. If you’re new to the idea of printing fish, leaves, tree stumps, flowers, rocks and spider webs by hand, you can find out more as we celebrate the art of printing from nature in our newest recorded videos beginning in Septemer, 2022..

Not a member? You can still watch these recorded classes and demos.

$65 LEAP recorded class for non-members – Recorded Zoom class, taught by an NPS member, running 1.5 to 3 hours. The instructor will email you with supply information when you sign up.

$40 LEAP recorded demonstration for non-members – Recorded demo, 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. The instructor will be available for email questions and possibly for a one-time Zoom QA with a larger group.

Come join us.

Book

THE ART OF PRINTING FROM NATURE: A Guidebook, 40th Anniversary Edition

Our printing guide, “THE ART OF PRINTING FROM NATURE: A Guidebook, 40th Anniversary Edition” is the most comprehensive book on nature printing methods we’ve ever published: 132 pages of techniques, instruction, artwork, and inspiration with over 400 color photographs.

Over 20 NPS members, all experts in their subjects, have provided 35 fully illustrated chapters that thoroughly cover beginning and advanced gyotaku (fish printing), botanical printing, how to work on cloth and fabric, eco-dyeing, color theory, cyanotype, mushroom spore prints — even printing spider webs!

Nature printing is an ancient art form that takes objects in nature and, through the use of a wide variety of techniques, transfers the beauty of those objects into art. The Nature Printing Society is the largest, international organization existing solely for the purpose of promoting and encouraging nature printing. We help disseminate educational materials and support acquaintance and cooperation both among our members and with the general public. We encourage publication of articles about nature printing, demonstrations of printing, teaching of printing classes, and organization of displays, exhibits, and shows of nature printing. Membership in NPS includes our beautiful quarterly newsletter as well as an opportunity to attend our annual week-long conference held each year in a different location.

Browse our website to learn more about the history of nature printing, the work of our members, and upcoming nature printing events.

For purchase information on “THE ART OF PRINTING FROM NATURE”, click here.