Practical Wood Engraving Workshop with Fred Jones RBSA.
This workshop is an introductory/reminder course for preparing, cutting, and printing woodblock engravings. Participants will be able to print a small edition of a woodblock print and will have the knowledge to take their skills home and develop them further.
Age group and abilities to be taught
18 years and above
Suitable for absolute beginners, those who once knew how to produce wood engravings, and early-stage learners
Course aims and skills/knowledge to be taught
Preparing an image for transfer on to wood block
Engraving styles and techniques
Printing methods for home or in the studio studio
Course outline
Morning activity
Introduction to materials
Examples
Physical resources and suppliers
Practical, learning about cutting styles and techniques
Afternoon activity
Preparing and transferring an image on to the block
Engraving
Inking and printing
Cleaning up and wrapping up
What you need to bring with you:
Standard drawing equipment (i.e. pencils, pens, rulers, etc)
A folder to take work home in
Participants should bring with them printouts on paper of photographs, drawings, or other images to turn into engravings. The image size should be 6.5cm x 5.5 cm to fit the wood blocks. Remember, in the course of printing an engraving the process will left-right flip the image, so you may prefer to pre-flip your images on the computer so that the final outcome will be left-right true
You may like to include some photos that have been converted to black and white if you want to think about strong contrasts of tone
What we will provide:
Woodblocks practice pack (small two-sided blocks, one for each student)
• Woodblocks 6.5cm x 5.5cm (one sided, one for each student)
• Engraving tools for use in the session
• Relief ink (black)
• A4 perspex sheets
• Rollers
• Wet and dry Fabriano Rosapina paper
Methods of assessing outcomes
Discussion of workshop with Workshop Tutor and fellow workshop students and completion of evaluation form.
