Drypoint & Relief Printmaking
6 Week Class | Available
Within this class, students will pursue both intaglio printmaking on metal plates, using sharp tools and scribes to gouge the metal to create their images, as well as traditional relief printing on wood or linoleum surfaces.
This ten week course will be five weeks of exploring drypoint and five weeks of exploring relief printing. Students may also choose to concentrate on one discipline for the duration of the class.
Base Tuition: $333 + Material Fee: $50 = $383 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How to make/print a drypoint print, chine colle
- Printing multiple plate images with colour
- How to register images on the press
- Students will learn about registration, colour mixing, and tonal contrasts through form and line
- How to carve into wood and linoleum
- How to register your image on the press
- Reduction printing
- And/or multiple block printing
- Mixing colours with oil based ink
Brian Hoxha
Brian has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 2004. Hoxha is also an educator in watercolour and printmaking at the Art Gallery of Ontario and in the T.D.S.B. at Northern S.S., and at the Granite Club. He is a long-time member of Open Studio, the artist-run centre and print studio.
Hoxha's work explores the beauty and solace of the natural world, whether in painting or making prints. He particularly finds constant inspiration by working on location in breathtakingly beautiful landscapes, as is evident in his journeys to Northern Ontario, Western Canada, Newfoundland and Montana.
Hoxha is currently represented by Open Studio, Gallery 133, The Denison Gallery, Art Interiors, Tracey Capes F.A., Nouveau Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Gibson Fine Arts in Calgary and the Christina Parker Gallery in St. John's N.F., as well as by a variety of arts consultants in Toronto.
1985 Printmaking, Fifth-Year Program, Ontario College of Art
1984 Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art