INTRODUCTION TO COURSE

This course is designed to apply personal aesthetics in print making. Different print making 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 demonstrate a cumulative knowledge of intaglio and advance 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 CONTENT

1.Introduction and workshop of woodcut

2. Color Woodcut Workshop      

3. Introduction to collagraph.     

4. Collagraph Workshop

5. Introduction to Mono Print    

6. Experimental Techniques of mono prints

7. Stenciling with Mono Prints

8. Reduction Lino cut or Woodcut

9. MID EXAMS  

10. Etching

11. Process of Aquatint & Material

12. Aquatint

13. Sugar Lift Etching     

14. Experiments with tinted and shaded colored papers

15. Conceptual Aquatint prints  

16. FINAL EXAM / PROJECT

TEXTBOOKS TO BE USED FOR THE COURSE /ARTIST WORK / VIDEOS

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

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