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 relief printmaking that combines increasingly complex original imagery, using multiple techniques learned in class.

READINGS

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, Thames & Hudson 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
5. http://www.nontoxicprint.com/perfectregistration.htm
6. http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/136140/bunbury-alisa-not-picassos-invention--a-foray-into.aspx

CONTENTS

1. Unique Prints

1.1 Experimental Backgrounds

1.2 Leaf Printing

2.         Stenciling

2.1 Experimental Backgrounds

2.2 Floral Designs

3.         Lino Cut (mono chrome)

            1.1       Experiments with tinted and shaded colored papers

            1.2       Figurative prints

4.         Wood Cut (mono chrome)

4.1 Experiments with tinted and shaded colored papers

4.2 Conceptual Prints

2. Etching

5.1 Palate preparation

5.2 Conceptual drawing on palate

5.3 Printing

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

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

Mid exam: 30

Final exam: 50

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Class attendance policy:

 •          75% Attendance will me must.

•           Cell Phones should be silent during class.

•           Students will bring their laptops in computer lab.