EDUCATION

 

2001-2002    MFA. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705

                         Overall GPA 3.65 on a 4.0 scale                                                                        

2000-2001    M.A.  Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705

 

1997-1998    Tamarind Institute (Lithograph), New Mexico University, NM 87106

                                                                                                 

1992-1996    B.A. (Art History) San Marcos National University, Lima, Peru

 

1985-1990    B.F.A. (Printmaking-drawing) National School of Arts of Peru, Lima, Peru

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PRINTMAKING WORKSHOPS

 

Goals

 

• Students will be able to apply printmaking technique as another art media to express ideas concepts and feelings.

• Students will create expressive relief prints from foam, linoleum or plexy-glass printing blocks.

• Students will be able to do editions.

 

 

Printmaking

 

            There are four main techniques in printmaking.  Woodcut or relief printing is the technique we are going to learn in this workshop.

 

            Printmaking involves the creation of a master plate from which multiple images are made.  This could be linoleum, foam, metal, cardboard, stone or any one of a number of materials.  The artist prepares the printing plate by cutting, etching or drawing an image onto the plate. Ink is applied (in a variety of ways) and paper is pressed onto the plate either by hand or by way of a hand-run printing press. The finished print is pulled from the plate.

 

           Woodcut is a print from a raised surface. A simple example of relief printing is a rubber stamp pressed into a stamp pad and pressed onto a piece of paper. Relief printing plates are made from flat sheets of material such as wood, linoleum, metal, foam etc. After drawing a picture on the surface, the artist uses tools to cut away the areas that will not print. A roller - called a brayer - is used to spread ink on the plate. A sheet of paper is placed on top of the plate and the image is transferred by rubbing with the hand or a block of wood, or by being run through a printing press. The completed print is a mirror image of the original plate.

 

            Woodcut - Historical uses: Textiles and other decorative purposes, playing cards, calendars and book illustrations.

Woodcut - Artists worth studying: Holbein the Younger, Fred Hagen, Vincent Van Gogh, James Whistler, any Japanese printmaker

 

CLASS SCHEDULE

 

              Six hours per week.  Start with the introduction of the technique. Then, we will  have some demos to learn how to prepare the plate, draw, apply ink and print.