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- ONLINE White Line Woodcut Printing - Wed 24th April 2024 at 10am
ONLINE White Line Woodcut Printing - Wed 24th April 2024 at 10am
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£41.00
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- Included in this ONLINE class:2 hours of live, expert tuition in a small & friendly class
- Unlimited access to watch again until 23rd June 2024
- High quality, downloadable templates & handouts provided after the class
- Opportunities to seek feedback from your tutor & connect with fellow students via our online platform
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Tutor: Karen Carter
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Next up in our 'Printing without a Press' series is Japanese style woodcutting. Tips, tricks and shortcuts will take this ancient art and make it into something fun, accessible and simple to do.
Taking our inspiration from the Provincetown Printers who developed this technique, we will carve our designs into Japanese ply creating an outline within which to print. Inking is done by hand with watercolours or gouache and produces attractive subtle prints.
We will start with looking at what makes a suitable design for a whiteline woodcut (we will provide templates for you to work from if you want to). After preparing the wood block we will transfer the design and consider methods of registration to enable you to produce a full-colour print. A demonstration of safe cutting techniques will be followed by inking and printing using rice paste and watercolours. We will experiment with layering colour and creating ‘speckle’ to enhance our image.
This is a gentle and absorbing printing technique suitable for beginners & experienced alike and is a perfect technique for printing at home, requiring a minimum of space & equipment.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop:
- Creating a design suitable for a woodcut
- Types of tools, wood and papers to use
- Preparing the wood and transferring the image
- Basic registration devices
- Cutting the woodblock
- Inking and printing techniques
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online class page. Helpful and easy to use, these private pages enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – before, during, and after class.
Karen will offer personal feedback for any work submitted via the class page within thirty days of the class ending. The link to access the page will be shared via email in the days leading up to the class.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.