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Beginner & Advanced Printmaking
Session I, 10 – 18 year olds
In these classes students explore relief printmaking. In Beginner Printmaking students learn how to make effective use of the medium in creating images. In Advance Printmaking students learn to use wood and other materials in creating relief print images. They begin to incorporate color and experiment with new image making processes. Emphasis is placed on how to handle the tools, vocabulary, safety, and pushing the medium’s capabilities to new levels.
The projects on display include a variety of techniques. Some of the techniques are: monoprint, linoleum, wood cut and mixed media. These techniques can be very process laden. This means a final image can take weeks to realize, requiring students’ determination and resolve. Because the image you see is a mirror image of the original drawing, the students have unique compositional problems to resolve especially when employing text.
Kim Gavin & Bill Auge, instructors
Christina Groff, assistant
Knox College art professor Andrea Ferrigno leads a printmaking class on the first day of winter term.
This is a proof of concept print. I'm testing a printmaking setup I built. It uses a flexible plastic membrane in a frame as a plate. The plate is hinged on one side and can swing over to cover a piece of paper. I can then transfer paint or ink by rubbing the back of the plastic, swing it back, clean the plate, apply a different color, swing it back over the paper and print it. It works. It's possible to print colors in multiple passes and maintain registration.
Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking paper 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm), Saran Wrap on a foam core frame used as a plate, and Golden Open Acrylics. Image is 8x10 inches (20.3x25.6 cm).
Uploaded for a blog post:
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A few more photos of the elements used to lock up a chase for letterpress printing.
This is one of 4 small steel Wickersham quoins I have, and the old cast iron key used to open and close it. There are no teeth inside - rather it works by turning an oblong cam which is between the two sides which are held together by a spring on each end. That allows it to lock in whatever position you open it to. It's an elegant little machine.
Grandson explains plate materials to visitors to his class at the Governor's Institute at Castleton University, VT
Students began Art 2 by printmaking their unique ideations of a still life of a potted plant. They are creating four prints: a color gradient background with black ink, color gradient ink, black ink, and black ink with a watercolor.