Printmaking and The Figure

Printmaking and The Figure

Class | This program is completed

1501 10th Ave East Seattle, WA 98102 United States

TBD

Beginning

1/14/2020-3/17/2020

6:30 PM-9:30 PM PDT on Tue

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$520.00

$468.00

$10.00

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In this introductory course, students will gain technical skills in observational drawing of the live nude model, then learn to transform and reproduce their drawings as experimental prints. Each week will alternate between figure drawing sessions and sessions without the model in the printmaking studio, where students will use their life sketches as inspiration and reference. Techniques in observational and expressive charcoal drawing as well as processes of monotype, ink transfer drawing, and relief printing using oil-based printmaking inks will be introduced. Experimentation in composition, mark-making, layering, and texture is encouraged.

  • Printmaking and the Figure
  • Individual Supply List:
  • 10 sheets of 22x30” Printmaking paper (should be mostly white, but a few could be cream or gray) such as:
  • Stonehenge White: https://www.dickblick.com/items/10423-1002/
  • BFK Rives: https://www.dickblick.com/items/10419-1002/
  • Magnani Pescia: https://www.dickblick.com/items/10436-1022/
  • Scraps of colored thin papers, such as Japanese/Chinese Papers, Origami Paper, Mulberry, Kitakata, etc
  • Plexiglass Plate/ Acrylic Sheet, 9 x 12” such as https://www.dickblick.com/items/40445-1023/
  • Yupo Paper Pad, 9 x 12 “ translucent: https://www.dickblick.com/items/10162-1023/
  • Various Brushes (watercolor, acrylic, or oil brushes work fine, a detail brush as well as a flat-shaped brush preferred)
  • Palette Knife
  • Etching Needle https://www.dickblick.com/items/45212-0000/
  • Sketchbook, 9 x 12” or larger
  • Graphite Pencils (2H, 2B, 4B)
  • Charcoal Pencil (2B)
  • Vine Charcoal
  • Kneaded and/or white rubber eraser
  • Pencil Sharpener
  • Can of Spray Fixative or Hairspray to fix charcoal drawings