INTRODUCTION TO COURSE

This course is designed to apply personal aesthetics in print making. Different printmaking processes: intaglio and relief, or linocut and wood-cut will be used to sound technical methods, use of multi-color printing process will be done in the course.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Upon successful completion of this course, students will create prints that demonstrate printmaking methods such as aquatint, hard ground and soft ground fine etching, multi-color. dry point, aquatint, and lift grounds, as well as relief print methods, lithography, and proper handling of equipment and materials.
• Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate a cumulative knowledge of intaglio and relief printmaking that combines increasingly complex original imagery using multiple techniques learned in class.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS, HANDOUTS ETC.

1. Power point presentations and video links are uploaded

Course Contents:

1. Colored Woodcut

1.2. Experimental Backgrounds

1.3. Folk Paintings in Prints

2. Wood Engraving

2.1. Experimental Backgrounds

2.2. Geometrical Designs

3. Process of Aquatint and Material

4. Aquatint

4.1. Plate Preparation

4.2. Experiments with tinted and shaded colored papers

4.3. Conceptual Prints

5. Dry Point

5.1. Palate preparation

5.2. Conceptual ‘drawing on palate

5.3. Printing

Recommended Books:

1. Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes, Prentice Hall, 2009.
2. Bamber Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet, 1986
3. David Rudd, Judging the Authenticity of Prints by The Masters by art historian, Cycleback, 2005
4. Robert Klanten Hendrik Hellige, Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design, Published by Gestalten, 2014

Websites:

1) http://www.nontoxicprint.com/perfectregistration.htm

2) http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/136140/bunbury-alisa-not-picassos-invention--a-foray-into.aspx

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Sessional: 20   (PowerPoint Presentations, Practical Assignments and Homework)

Mid exam: 30

Final exam: 50

RULES AND REGULATIONS

• Class attendance policy: 75% Attendance is compulsory