Date/Time
Date(s) - 22/08/2013 - 23/08/2013
10:00 am
Location
Regional Print Centre
Categories No Categories
22nd – 23rd August
Photoplate Lithography with Paul Croft TMP
Photoplates – otherwise known as pre-sensitised offset plates are still used predominantly in the commercial sector for the printing of just about all mass-produced graphics including books, newspapers, advertising, packaging etc. In fine art lithography photoplates are just as commonly used in conjunction with stone and hand drawn plates – to print colour runs – introduce text, photographic and digital imagery.
Being light-weight, fairly inexpensive, quick to expose and process and being relatively easy to print, photoplates provide a versatile and attractive option for printing a range of hand drawn, photographic and digital material.
This course provides an introduction to photoplate lithography including:
Preparation of hand drawn positives (on True Grain Film / Acetate)
Multiple Monoprint on Photoplate
Preparation of Film Positives (using Adobe Photoshop)
Introduction to Digital Tusche Wash (using Corel Painter 12)
Exposing and Processing Plates
Printing Plates (on the Paul Peter Piech Press / Etching Press)
Paul Croft TMP
Paul Croft qualified as a Master Printer at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque in 1996 and now teaches printmaking at the School of Art in Aberystwyth. He has written and published two books on Stone Lithography (2001) and Plate Lithography (2003).
As a printmaker much of his work evolves through drawing and employs techniques of etching, screenprinting, stone, plate and waterless lithography. Underlying much of this work has been continuing interest in the object, found artefact, flotsam and jetsam – that have appeared in various different formats from traditional still life, through assemblage to abstract composition.
Interest in archaeology, origins of civilisation and in particular the etymology of language, alphabets and writing have also informed the work. Recent prints including Les Amulets à Musée have derived from artefacts and amulets found at The British Museum. Fragments of scratching, carving and casting – evidence, traces of existence throughout the ages have become the inspiration for these prints.
All Workshops: Non-members £120.00/Members £75.00
Booking essential (via email or telephone)
<BR>t: 01978 311794 e: printcentre@yale-wrexham.ac.uk
