Course Objectives
To Investigate and Explore image making using woodcut and/or wood engraving techniques with multiple printing elements and color. Historical analysis, lecture/demonstrations and printing assignments prepare the student to explore within the context of the observed form. The final goal is for each student to create one three color woodcut image and three black and white images in editions of four each.
| Week | Lecture/ Demonstration/ Class Activity |
| First | Brief overview of the course to include a discussion of the process of woodcut/wood engraving materials, course requirements, assignments, and attendance policy. Students will be asked to define a proposed method of working and describe the nature of the imagery to be developed. Discussion of two type of woodcuts: German Expressionist movement and Japanese movement |
| Second | Color working copy for multi-color woodcuts.
Transposing color separations on multiple printing elements |
| Third | Color Inks, transparency and opacity, color mixing, additives, modifiers
Registration systems for woodcut |
| Fourth | Transfer methods on wood blocks
Printing procedures for transferred images on blocks. Individual critiques to monitor the progress of each proposal |
| Fifth | Blended inking techniques
Multi-color printing with brayers |
| Sixth | Slide Lecture: Contemporary Color Prints
Slide Lecture: Historic Color Prints |
| Seventh | Jigsaw prints
Reduction Prints |
| Eighth | Critiques: Evaluation of Student Color Studies
Printing Assignments: Students will be assigned specific deadlines and press time to complete color prints |
| Ninth | Students continue to work on assignments |
| Tenth | Students continue to work on assignments |
| Eleventh | Students continue to work on assignments
Class Critiques |
| Twelfth | Students are responsible for the completion of their assignments during the final weeks of the semester. This entails repeating all aspects of the process for the two remaining prints during class time. The instructor will assist students during the last month of the semester until all editions are completed. |
| Thirteenth | Lecture: Print Terminology, signing and numbering the edition,
matting and framing the print
Portfolio Presentation |
| Fourteenth | Students continue to work on assignments |
| Fifteenth | Students continue to work on assignments
Complete printing assignments, individual critiques, presentation of portfolios |
| Sixteenth | Class critiques, grading portfolios, cleaning the print room |
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