Printmaking
There are many processes that fall under the term "printmaking". I hadn't ever tried any of them until I went to Weber State University, where I had the opportunity to learn from a talented professor, Susan Makov, in a beautiful printmaking studio. She taught me intaglio, lino-cut, letter-press printing, serigraphy, and allowed me to muddle through some monotypes. Every process is so distinctly different from the others that one could study them all for years and still not know everything there is to know about them. I'm not very good at any of them, but I sure enjoyed learning the processes.
I took a course in serigraphy while studying in Florence, Italy during the summer of 2005, and the intensive study turned out to be a great help in solidifying what I'd been taught before. The studio in Florence is owned by an American professor who went to Florence for a summer, fell in love, and never went home. She still speaks Italian with the most appalling American accent I've ever heard, but at least she can put a sentence together and make herself understood, if barely.
I had the chance to attend a week-long monotype workshop in Helper, Utah, taught by Dave Dornan in 2006. In this workshop we worked in a small format, and I realized for the first time that monoprints can be more detailed than I had thought possible. This class was a great experience, especially since I was there among friends.
When I started my graduate program at BYU I had the chance to learn stone lithography from Wayne Kimball. What a fascinating process this is, and I couldn't have learned it from a kinder or more knowledgeable professor. He was patient, thorough, perfectionistic, and funny, and he forced us to really think about why we were doing what we were doing, while encouraging experimentation in subject matter (never in process). I wish Professor Kimball was my brother, so I could pop in at his studio any time it suited me.
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I took a course in serigraphy while studying in Florence, Italy during the summer of 2005, and the intensive study turned out to be a great help in solidifying what I'd been taught before. The studio in Florence is owned by an American professor who went to Florence for a summer, fell in love, and never went home. She still speaks Italian with the most appalling American accent I've ever heard, but at least she can put a sentence together and make herself understood, if barely.
I had the chance to attend a week-long monotype workshop in Helper, Utah, taught by Dave Dornan in 2006. In this workshop we worked in a small format, and I realized for the first time that monoprints can be more detailed than I had thought possible. This class was a great experience, especially since I was there among friends.
When I started my graduate program at BYU I had the chance to learn stone lithography from Wayne Kimball. What a fascinating process this is, and I couldn't have learned it from a kinder or more knowledgeable professor. He was patient, thorough, perfectionistic, and funny, and he forced us to really think about why we were doing what we were doing, while encouraging experimentation in subject matter (never in process). I wish Professor Kimball was my brother, so I could pop in at his studio any time it suited me.
Almost all of the photos on my blog can be clicked for larger views, if necessary. If you run across one that you can't enlarge, let me know and I'll fix it.