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College course focus on printmaking
The duplication of an image to another medium with inks, paints and pigments has been a technique used to communicate and express oneself through art for thousands of years. Artists like Renoir, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Degas, are only a handful of the famous artists who used printmaking for many of their creations.
Though its intent is to create multiple copies of a particular piece, printmaking is an art form in itself due to the infinite number of materials, techniques and types of paper and fabrics that can be used.
To give students an opportunity to learn this exciting art form, Alvin Community College will offer a 3-hour credit introductory class in printmaking during the spring 2009 semester in January.
“It’s fun and interesting, because you can work with any kind of medium and in any style – realism, experimental, abstract,” said Krysten Bailey, instructor for the course at ACC. “You can do whatever you like.”
“It has real world applications, too,” she added. “As well as making works of fine art, people who get involved in printmaking can also go into advertising, create movie posters and T-shirts.”
The new course will introduce traditional relief and intaglio printmaking techniques.
“Relief involves creating prints with wood and linoleum cuts,” Bailey mentioned. “It’s a very hands-on method of creating a design; it’s like taking the basic concept of a stamp and transforming it into fine art through unique techniques.”
Intaglio printmaking is considered the opposite technique of relief.
“It deals with scraping away or acid etching metal or plastic plates to make a design,” Bailey stated.
Ink is worked into the groves of the design and transferred to paper or cloth with the use of a press.
“We will also do some experimental printing, like monotype and collographs,” Bailey said.
Monotype prints are created when ink is removed or altered in thickness from a surface to form a design and then transferred to a medium. Collographs use various textured and shaped objects to transfer an image.
Students will also be taught how to use different inks, papers and press procedures to create prints from the original plate.
Bailey, who is originally from Texas, has a master’s degree in Fine Arts, with specializations in printmaking and mixed media, from the University of Connecticut.
“I was introduced to printmaking in my undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Tyler and I have loved it ever since,” she said.
The course, listed as Printmaking 2333, will be offered Monday and Wednesday, 9 to 11:50 a.m. The spring 2009 semester begins on Jan. 14 and online registration is currently underway. For more information, contact ACC Visual Arts Coordinator Cherie Richey at (281) 756-3505.
Though its intent is to create multiple copies of a particular piece, printmaking is an art form in itself due to the infinite number of materials, techniques and types of paper and fabrics that can be used.
To give students an opportunity to learn this exciting art form, Alvin Community College will offer a 3-hour credit introductory class in printmaking during the spring 2009 semester in January.
“It’s fun and interesting, because you can work with any kind of medium and in any style – realism, experimental, abstract,” said Krysten Bailey, instructor for the course at ACC. “You can do whatever you like.”
“It has real world applications, too,” she added. “As well as making works of fine art, people who get involved in printmaking can also go into advertising, create movie posters and T-shirts.”
The new course will introduce traditional relief and intaglio printmaking techniques.
“Relief involves creating prints with wood and linoleum cuts,” Bailey mentioned. “It’s a very hands-on method of creating a design; it’s like taking the basic concept of a stamp and transforming it into fine art through unique techniques.”
Intaglio printmaking is considered the opposite technique of relief.
“It deals with scraping away or acid etching metal or plastic plates to make a design,” Bailey stated.
Ink is worked into the groves of the design and transferred to paper or cloth with the use of a press.
“We will also do some experimental printing, like monotype and collographs,” Bailey said.
Monotype prints are created when ink is removed or altered in thickness from a surface to form a design and then transferred to a medium. Collographs use various textured and shaped objects to transfer an image.
Students will also be taught how to use different inks, papers and press procedures to create prints from the original plate.
Bailey, who is originally from Texas, has a master’s degree in Fine Arts, with specializations in printmaking and mixed media, from the University of Connecticut.
“I was introduced to printmaking in my undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Tyler and I have loved it ever since,” she said.
The course, listed as Printmaking 2333, will be offered Monday and Wednesday, 9 to 11:50 a.m. The spring 2009 semester begins on Jan. 14 and online registration is currently underway. For more information, contact ACC Visual Arts Coordinator Cherie Richey at (281) 756-3505.
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