Meanwhile some of the more experienced printmakers continued with their individual projects, developing ideas for layering colours and texture.
Sunday 29 January 2017
Thursday 26th January
We started reduction lino cuts today - experimenting with colour combinations.
Meanwhile some of the more experienced printmakers continued with their individual projects, developing ideas for layering colours and texture.
Meanwhile some of the more experienced printmakers continued with their individual projects, developing ideas for layering colours and texture.
Sunday 22 January 2017
Thursday 19th January
Starting on lino cuts today, some lovely results already.
We also experimented with lino prints over the monotypes that we worked on last week.
Our returning group are making good progress on their individual projects.
We also experimented with lino prints over the monotypes that we worked on last week.
Our returning group are making good progress on their individual projects.
Sunday 15 January 2017
Thursday 12th January 2017
On the first evening of this term we experimented with monotype techniques. Here are some of the results.
Thursday 12 January 2017
Woodcuts
A woodcut is a centuries old technique whereby cuts are made along the grain of a piece of planed wood. Depending on the coarseness of the grain the detail can be quite fine or very rough. The Expressionist movement used the immediacy of the technique to create powerful raw images. The following examples are by Paul Nash, Kathe Kollwitz and Karl Schnidt-Roffluff.
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