Participants work from a workshop held in Wales 2018 – reduction woodcuts made on a 2 day workshop. Click hereĮlspeth Lamb with her book “Nagasaki Cantrips” Rare books collection Mitchell Library Glasgow. Here is a great YouTube film featuring Elspeth.
Prior printmaking experience is a plus but not required. During the three-hour workshop, participants will experience carving and hand printing techniques and learn about traditional tools and materials to create multiple single-color prints. She is a practising international artist and has been an elected Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy since 1991. In this mokuhanga workshop, participants will be introduced to traditional Japanese woodcut printmaking.
Moku Hanga, meaning wood print, is a simple, centuries-old Japanese technique. Her book, “Papermaking for Printmakers” was published in 2006 by A&C Black, Bloomsbury Press ,London. Moku Hanga: An Intro to Japanese Woodblock Printing July 15-17, 2022.
In September 2014 she presented a paper on her research into papermaking and print in Tokyo at the Second Mokuhanga Conference held at Tokyo University. All cutting tools and specialist Japanese papers will be supplied and included in the cost.įor further information or to book this course contact Elspeth hereĮlspeth Lamb taught Printmaking at the Edinburgh College of Art for 21 years and over the last several years has studied with master printers and carvers in Japan. Images may be portrait or landscape format.Further instructions will be sent out nearer the course suggesting things you may want to bring. Demonstrations of different techniques will be shown.ĭue to the short time involved we will be working to a maximum size of 17 x 24 centimetres. Elspeth will oversee each stage in the process and everyone should achieve a small edition of colour prints to take home.
Over the course of the two day workshop, participants will learn how to carve and print a block using a method called ‘reductive’ printing, in order to achieve colour prints. All tools and materials including cutting tools and brushes are provided along with details of stockists. In this class you will start by using water based ink, but also explore the possibilities of printing by hand in the traditional style while using western oil-based inks instead.
The paint is applied to the image with brushes and the image transferred to paper with the aid of a pressure pad known as a baren. Slovník pojmov zameraný na vedu a jej popularizáciu na Slovensku. Moku-hanga differs from many techniques for its use of water based ink- and for being printed by hand, without a press. It is an ideal print method for teaching in schools or practicing at home and the tools required are very accessible. It only differs slightly in technique from those prints we recognize by artists such as Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Japanese woodblock printing is a technique which involves inking the block with watercolour paints and specialist brushes as opposed to the western form of printmaking which utilizes oil based solvent inks applied with rollers. Fee: £110 for 2 days inclusive of all woodcut tools and materials