Printmaking 2: Developing Your Style

Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts*

This course builds on OCA's Printmaking 1 course, and will develop your skills and confidence in printmaking. It is assumed that you know basic relief printmaking techniques before embarking on this course, including how to do a monoprint, linocut and, collotype (sometimes called collagraph) and woodcut. The course will allow you to focus on particular techniques you enjoy, while encouraging you to practice less familiar techniques. The course includes projects focusing on landscape, portraiture, and creating abstract prints, as well as a project based on imagination. The technique of chiaroscuro is also introduced. Because this is a second year degree level course, a theoretical element is included, and so the course requires you to write a study of a printmaker, looking at their work in detail, in order to inform your own work. Finally you are asked to emulate this Printmaker's work in a piece of your own.