Printing Workshop
On December 2nd and 8th I was able to do the introductory workshop for the Printing Studio. It was scheduled for December 2nd & 16th (two full days) but as I had a medical appointment on the 16th, I was able to arrange to go in the afternoon of the 8th. Helen ran me though a quick demo and then I tried monoprinting (and I am now totally jealous the rest of the group get to do it for a full-day!) I had done some linocuts in the past (ancient past) but the rest was generally new to me. This is a linocut I did in high school - it made it into the annual yearbook, which is the only record I have of it. That was back before we carried cameras around with us everywhere! And, of course, they spelled my name wrong as always. This first session was an introduction to Relief and Intaglio. Relief is linocut, woodcut and wood engraving. We were given various materials/techniques to try. We did two linocuts to experiment with - the large was to play around with different ways of mark makin...