Layer By Layer: The Multiblock Woodcut
May 29 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$429.00A 5-week In-Studio Workshop!
Wednesdays, May 29, June 5, 12, 19, and 26, 6-9pm
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About this Workshop:
Take your woodcut skills to the next level in this workshop is designed to demonstrate techniques for multiblock woodcut printmaking—where two or more blocks are used to create a multi-layered color print. This workshop will cover the following techniques through hands-on demonstrations: carving techniques, registration, color mixing with oil-based ink, and pressing a print. Students are encouraged to design their own image, carve three 8”x10” birch plywood blocks, and can expect to complete a small edition of 11”x14” color prints. This is an intermediate level workshop—students need to have recent experience in woodcut printmaking.
Level: Intermediate – Recent woodcut workshop experience (e.g., Introduction to Woodcut Relief Printmaking; Woodcut: As Detailed as it Gets) or similar experience (6 hours or more) is required.
Please note: This workshop can be physically intense from carving the woodblock to printing.
Registration closes May 20, 2024. Material fees are included with your registration to cover the supplies provided in class. Students may/will need to gather/purchase additional materials for class (see the materials list below). This list will also be provided with the registration confirmation email.
Sample images by Jun Lee
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $35 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including three 8’x10” wood blocks, ink, and newsprint. Students will need to supply additional materials of their own, including:
- 1-2 idea sketches/pictures for the woodcut. *Important – Students will directly draw on the block, so please prepare completed design drawings. If you would like to transfer/trace your drawing onto a block, please do the design on a woodblock size (8”x 10”) paper, newsprint or thin paper recommended.*
- 2-3 sheets of Arnhem 1618 Printmaking Paper (White, 90lb, 22”x30”)
- Power Grip Carving Tools (Set of 7) – affordable, long lasting, and GREAT tools for woodcut. Available through Amazon and WoodCraft
- (Optional) Power Grip carving knife chisel triangular, 1.5mm – recommended for fine line details and not included in the set.
- Flexcut Slipstrop Sharpening Kit
- Sharpie Permanent Markers (for drawing on woodblocks)
- 2 Permanent Sharpie BLACK (Fine)
- 1 Permanent Sharpie SILVER (Fine)
- 1 Permanent Sharpie BLACK (Chisel Tips)
- 1 Permanent Sharpie RED (Chisel Tips)
- Baby Wipes – Huggies Simply Clean Fragrance-Free Baby Wipes (Unscented), 1 qty
- Sketchbook and drawing materials (Pencils, pen, eraser, etc.) to take notes, etc.
- (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) or wear clothes that can get inky
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Jun Lee is a printmaker who works in large format woodcut utilizing animals as metaphors to convey competition in our daily lives. Lee is a DC Art Bank Grant recipient from 2019–2022, awarded by the Government of DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was the Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lee Arts Center (VA, 2014–2021), Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring (MD, 2018), the winter resident at Penland School of Crafts (NC, 2017–2020), and the Denbo Fellow at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (MD, 2017). Lee attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where she earned a BFA in Illustration in 2002, and a Post Baccalaureate in Printmaking in 2004. In 2007, She received her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Lee’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has taught printmaking classes at multiple locations. Learn more about her work at junleeprints.com and follow her on Instagram @junieleelee.
“Jun has a wealth of knowledge and is so open to sharing advice and tips – because she’s ‘been there and done that.’ She routinely engaged with each student individually to speak to each person’s needs and questions.”
—Workshop Participant, Woodcut: As Detailed as It Gets