Printmaking Foundations

What you cut away becomes the picture.

About This Course

This is your first real print. Carved, inked and pressed by hand. One block, one colour, and the discipline of getting the same image right more than once.

What You'll Create

  • A small edition of five consistent prints pulled from one carved block.
  • One print signed, numbered and selected for the end of term exhibition.
  • A brief statement on the image and the carving process.

Course Details

Age Range
9-11
Term
Term 1
Schedule
Wednesdays, 4:00pm
Duration
10 weeks
Price
$480
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What You'll Learn

  • • You'll carve a lino block safely and cleanly.
  • • You'll learn the difference between what's cut away and what stays raised.
  • • You'll ink a block evenly and pull a clean print.
  • • You'll register a print so it lines up, every time.
  • • You'll learn that a print is only as good as its worst copy in the edition.

The Support You'll Get

You won't be handed the answer. You'll be shown how to find it.

Your practitioner has spent years making their own work, and their own mistakes. In the studio they work alongside you: asking the right questions, pointing out options you hadn't seen, helping you push through the moment you get stuck. The ideas stay yours. The decisions stay yours. They're there so you're never finding the way through alone.

Week by Week

Week 1: What makes a print different from a drawing. Safe carving. Tools and technique.

Week 2: Positive and negative. What you cut away becomes blank space.

Week 3: First block, first pull. Inking and using the press.

Week 4: Registration. Making every print line up the same way.

Week 5: Editing the image based on the first prints pulled.

Week 6: Building an edition. Five consistent prints, signed and numbered.

Week 7: A second block, a new image.

Week 8: Exhibition. Public showing, families attend.

Every course ends with an exhibition

Celebrate what you created with the people and our community. Every term concludes with a presentation or exhibition of your work: a chance to share your process, your ideas, and what you've made.

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