Drypoint & Relief Printmaking
6 Week Class | Available
Students will learn the intaglio process of drypoint by scratching into metal plates to create both b/w and colour prints. The emphasis will be on tonalities, detail, and mark-making. In the relief printmaking part of the program, students will carve into linoleum to create a b/w image and translate that image into a multiple coloured print.
Throughout the program students will be exposed to a wide variety of print artists.
Base Tuition: $338 +
Material Fee: $50 =
$388 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.