Watercolour Woodblock Printmaking
6 Week Class | Available
This is a comprehensive course exploring relief printmaking techniques on wood, using watercolour and Yamamoto Rice paste. During the course, students will learn how to register their images on the blocks, cut their images into the blocks, prepare paper for printing, and print in both black & white and colour. This course employs traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking techniques with a Western approach.
Base Tuition: $333 + Materials Fee: $60 = Total: $393
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- What You Will Learn:
- - Preparing your block
- - Preparing your paper
- - Registration
- - Colour mixing
- - Keeping your tools sharp
- - Tonal blends
- - Carving techniques
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