Introduction to Botanical Drawing & Monoprinting
6 Week Class | Available
This course is designed for students who want to explore botanical drawing and monoprinting. Presentations and demonstrations will give you an insight into the imagery of the botanical world and how artists in the past and present worked representationally and abstractly in this field. Various processes will be introduced, including positive and negative printing techniques, ghost imagery, printing with botanicals, self made stencils, resist with wax crayons and more. Mark making and drawing or transferring onto the plate as well as preparing backgrounds and working with multiple layers will be explored. All student work will be shown and discussed at the end of each class. Individual feedback will be part of each session and handouts for further exploration will be provided.
Base Tuition: $333 + Material Fee: $20 = $353 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How describe form with line
- How to apply value, colour and texture in your drawings
- How to interpret nature by using patterns, detail, close-ups and repetition in your compositions
- How to mono print and use of various tools
- Explore and develop ideas, editing and presenting
- Please keep all purchase receipts in case items need to be returned.
- Pad of mixed media and/or watercolour paper
- Set of watercolours and watercolour pencils
- Fine liner pen (0.8)
- Round and flat brushes, various sizes (small to medium)
- Kneadable eraser
- Sharpener
- Exacto Knife
- Gelli printing plate made for printing with block printing inks (Speedball or Gelli Arts)
- Block printing inks (tubes), various colours
Additional Materials will be discussed
Tina Oehmsen-Clark
Tina's work has always been an exploration between various art forms, including sound, dance, installation, sculpture and drawing. She has exhibited in various galleries, museums and public spaces in Germany, Denmark and Canada. Since moving to Toronto in 1996, Oehmsen-Clark has worked on art projects at the AGO, Ryerson Student Gallery, Dancemakers and Wychwood Artscape. Besides her own art practice, she has taught in a number of schools and institutions including TSA. Tina always enjoys working with a wide age range, and believes that teaching art is an interactive learning process, both to inspire and be inspired.