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Printmaking Workshops and Tutorials
Printmaking workshops and classes can focus on multiple methods or specialize in a single method of plate making and reproduction. From multi-day workshop to a single session, participants learn how to reproduce their images. Relief (wood cut, wood engraving, linocut and collagraph, metalcut, rubber stamp foam and paper cuts) and Intaglio (wood engraving, metal engraving, drypoint etching) as well as planographic (lithograph) and silk screen techniques. The supports (what is printed onto) can be paper, cloth or wood depending on the project at hand.
Wood engraving using engraving tools on boxwood end grain.Wood engraving using engraving tools to cut the end grain of a maple block.Drypoint needles and acrylic plate on the left and Lithography crayon and aluminum plate along with mild etchant and feather on right.
Woodcut using u and v shaped gouges to cut into side grain cherry wood.Small press showing samples of plates to print. The linocut (on the left) was hand rubbed not run through the press. Linocut using u anv v gouges to carve into the surface to create print pattern.
Engraving a copper plate using metal engraving tools, supporting the copper on an engravers pad and wooden block.Nine different types of printmaking shown using the same basic design. You can see the character changes according to the m=printmaking method used.Small press along with the glass plate, brayer ink, ink knives, papers, wetting and blotting trays.
Dawn art / design / metal / paper / fiber 