Adults lino print workshop-notes

from June 2013
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Lino Printmaking Workshop
The Isle Gallery, Tynwald Mills
BEGINNERS +
WHO ARE THE WORKSHOPS
AIMED AT?
The workshops are aimed at beginners and
those that have experimented a little in any
form of printmaking, and would like to either
learn or develop their skills.
Inking up the blocks
IN THE BEGINNING
The first session will be mainly concerned
with print making preparation and for most
artists, this begins with a design or a drawing
or even a painting.
CAN ANYONE HAVE A GO?
There is no prerequisite, only an interest and
desire to create.
Lino printmaking process
Lino print making samples
Adult workshops at the Isle Gallery include: Oil,
Acrylic, Water Colour Painting and Printmaking.
HOW LONG DO THE WORKSHOPS LAST?
Beginners one colour print - 4 weeks
Reduction method - 4 weeks
Colour multi-plate method - 2-4 weeks
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Lino Printmaking workshop
NO MORE THAN 8 ADULTS IN EACH SESSION
What do the workshops offer:
The opportunity to work in a small
group to discuss and share ideas.
Learn new skills and realise your
ideas. What to expect:
Demonstrations and instruction from
a professional artist in a fun and
relaxed atmosphere.
What to expect: Demonstrations and
instruction from practising artists in a
fun and relaxed atmosphere.
September 2013
Please see below for workshop dates
and times – please bring an apron!
Tea and coffee is provided.
This course runs continuously on
Thursdays term time.
Part 1 - BEGINNERS
INTRODUCTION (4 weeks)
I will give a brief introduction to lino
printing. We look through my
portfolio to see some of my own lino
printing work. We then examine the
process and have an informal and
relaxed chat about styles of lino print,
and, where relevant, other artists’
work. At this point we usually discuss
what the students would like to
achieve. We will then move on to talk
in more detail about the reduction
process, the materials and tools
including:
• drawing for print; what you can and
cannot do within the restrictions of
the medium
• paper and inks
• trying the various cutting tools and
basic mark making
• inking up and using the roller
• basic registration
• hand printing using the baren
instead of the printing press
We will then each begin a black and
white print and talk about:
• preparing the lino
• choosing an image
• picture balance and composition
• different methods of transferring
image to lino
• reversal of image
• cutting
• printing
• experimentation
Part 2 - Colour Printmaking (48 weeks)
Once we have each completed the
beginner workshops (first 4 weeks) we
will focus on producing a multi colour
print. Areas that will be covered are:
• tips and techniques to consider
before printing
• choosing your image/sketch
• drawing and composition for colour
lino
• colour and layer planning
• demonstration of multi colour
process
• inking and mixing colours
• cleaning the block between colours
• cutting colour layers and alterations
while printing
• leaving stuff out
You will then start the preparation for
your own multi colour print,
including:
• drawing and lino preparation
• preparing registration marks
• transferring own drawing to lino
• printing
• Reduction and multi-colour
printmaking is covered in this block
MULTI-COLOUR PRINTING
AND CRITIQUE
We will have a review at the end of
each block of 4 weeks, the wonderful
collection of prints produced.
There will be plenty of time for
questions throughout the workshops.
DATES 2013
The workshop will run continuously
on a Thursday morning and evenings
7pm - 9pm, following the school term
times.
COST
The workshop cost is £15 per session
+ £22 to cover materials (this covers
the cost of your own set of lino
cutters, 2 sheets of lino and shared
use of inks and paper stock). Extra
lino, if you require, will be charged at
cost price. All other equipment
required will be available at the
gallery. I will issue you with a
Materials/Equipment and
Suppliers list, when the workshops
commence so you can purchase your
own lino kit (if you want). Please pay
for each block 4 weeks in advance.
There will be enough materials for
the first 4-6 weeks, a small ink or
paper charge may be required after
this, if stocks run low.
Please make payment for £82
(first block of 4 weeks + materials)
to ‘Myartstudio’ or pay by bacs to
account: HSBC 73808831 sort code:
40-19-38. Please send cheques to 15
Church Street, Peel, Isle of Man.
IM5 1HN
WHAT TO BRING?
All you really need to bring with you
are the art basics: a soft pencil (3b at
least), permanent marker (for quick
shading in of areas) and either
sketches or reference photographs,
magazine cuttings etc. of an image
you would like to produce.
It can also be very useful to bring
with you examples of other
artists’ (especially printmakers) work
that you like and are inspired by.
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Brief History
Lino printing is a form of fine art
printmaking where the printing plate
is cut into lino. Yes, lino as in
linoleum, as in the floor covering.
The lino is then inked, a piece of
paper placed over it, and then run
through a printing press or pressure
applied by hand to transfer the ink to
the paper. The result, a linocut print.
Because it's a smooth surface, the lino
itself doesn't add texture to the print.
Linoleum was invented in 1860 by a
British rubber manufacturer, Fredrick
Walton, looking for a cheaper
product. Lino is made from linseed
oil and Walton got the idea "by
observing the skin produced by
oxidized linseed oil that forms on
paint." Linseed oil is heated in thin
layers which thicken and become
rubbery; this is then pressed onto a
mesh of coarse threads to help hold it
together in sheets. It didn't take long
after the invention of lino for artists
to decide it was a cheap and easy
material for printmaking. Lacking
any art historical tradition, artists
were free to use it however they
John Ndevasia Muafangejo.
wished, without facing negative
criticism.
When Was Lino First Used for
Printmaking?
The use of lino to create art is
"primarily attributed to German
Expressionists such as Erich Heckel
(1883-1944) and Gabriele Munter
(1877-1962)"2. Russian Constructivist
artists were using it by 1913, and
black-and-white linocuts appeared in
the UK in 1912 (attributed to Horace
Brodzky). The development of color
linocuts was "driven by the influence
of Claude Flight (1881-1955)" who
taught linocut in London at the
Grosvenor School of Modern Art
between 1926 and 1930.2
print, being recut after each color has
been printed. But reduction lino
"seems to have been in use by smallscale commercial printers for some
time before [Picasso] made it his own.
It was one such printer of posters
who suggested to Picasso that he
might find it an easy way of keeping
the various colours in registration
with one another."3
Matisse also made linocuts. Another
artist famous for his linocuts is
Namibian John Ndevasia
Muafangejo. His prints often contain
explanatory words or narratives in
English on them.
Picasso is known to have produced his
first linocuts in 1939 and continued
doing so into the early 1960s. Picasso
is often credited with inventing
reduction linocuts, where a piece of
lino is used multiple times in one
Picasso lino print
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OTHER DETAILS
printing please bring your prints with
you as it helps me asses the areas of
your work to focus on and other
members of the workshop always get
pleasure and encouragement from
seeing the work of others. After you
have grown in confidence we will be
able to pull some prints on the
printing press due to be installed at
the Gallery in June 2013. If you have
any queries, at all, please don’t
hesitate in asking!
Lino Printmaking
Isle Gallery, Tynwald Mills, St Johns
Booking form: Please complete and return by email or post to:
Kate Jerry, Myartstudio, 15 Church Street, Peel, IM5 1HN
Name:
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