Engraving. Direct Techniques on Copper and Plastic
From 2 to 6 July 2012 
Color Viscosity printmaking workshop
From 9 to July 13, 2012
On artist's books
From 16 to 20 July 2012
Workshop engraving with photopolymer
Photographic image on photopolymer plates
From 20 to 24 August
Art Print Residence
Murtra's summer
Engraving. Direct Techniques on Copper and Plastic
From 2 to 6 July 2012Given by Jordi Rosés engraving and Pilar Lloret master printer
30 hours of workshop
basic material included
languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
No. of students: 10
Registration fee: 275 € I Wish to register to this workshop
Possibility of accommodation in Art Print Residence; more information
This course is aimed at experimentation and an in-depth insight into the direct resources
involved in printing with plates, without using any kind of acid or etching solution.
It will be divided into two parts: the creation of a matrix and printing with it.
A study will be made of traditional techniques, better known as line engraving (like drypoint or the creation of mezzotints with a rocker, roulettes, etc). Other techniques that are not so common now (like stipple engraving or criblé, burin engraving, etc). Use of electrical tools (a drill and an electric-driven chisel) to scratch, erase, empty, score and erode the plates. Tools, that are normally intended for corrective purposes, will be used as creative resources (like burnishers, sandpaper, emery stone, charcoal, or emery boards). Plates will be created for printing in colour together.
Intaglio printing. Papers: types and qualities. Inks: preparing inks for direct printing techniques. Traditional printing methods, retroussage, combing, creative printing. Colour printing. Impressions from one plate with several inks: roll up, collages. Impressions with several plates, register. Special effects: smudged sheets, templates, etc.
Jordi Rosés and Pilar Lloret are master printers. Currently they lead the workshop and publishing of "Edicions Murtra" and a residence for artists called "Art Print Residence" in Arenys de Munt.
Jordi Rosés is author of manuals named "El Gravat" and "Prova d'estat". He worked as an expert and developed the program "Certificate of professionalism in intaglio and woodcut" for the Ministry of Labour. Pilar Lloret developed "Professional certificates in intaglio stamping and engraving".
They were founders and coordinators for ten years of "International Summer School of Printmaking" in Calella. For 14 years they are teaching courses of engraving for Culture Patronat in Mataró. Since 12 years they work with Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, as consultants and providing various courses in engraving. Also they taught courses in Lavoratorio Piranesi engraving of Sermonetta Italy, the course "Beyond the Plate Etched" in Whitehorse by Yukon Arts Society, Canada, among others.
From 9 to July 13, 2012
Given by Teresa Gomez Martorell
30 hours of workshop
basic material included
languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
No. of students: 10
Registration fee: 275 € I Wish to register to this workshop
Possibility of accommodation in Art Print Residence; more information
There are several ways of working in color printmaking.
Created at the Atelier 17 by Stanley William Hayter, in the Hayter technique (or color viscosity), the different colors are printed at the same time by working the ink viscosity, the etching and with hard or soft rollers and brayers.
This workshop will be focused on the possibilities of this technique with some guidelines by working plates with stencils, rollers, ink viscosity and degradees. At the same time, plates will be deeply etched to work with hard and soft rollers. The most important thing for the participating students is to learn the concept underlying this technique and how to integrate to their body of work.
Teresa Gómez-Martorell; born in Barcelona, 1961. She has a major in printmaking by the Universitat de Barcelona, she studied color printmaking at the Atelier 17-contrepoint in Paris and she has an MFA from the Southern Methodist University of Dallas.
She has exhibited in national and international shows and competitions such as Premio Máximo Ramos, New Prints program at IPCNY, Novosibirsk Print Biennial with the group of US artists. She has received grants and residencies such as Jentel Arts residency in Wyoming, the Santa Fe Art Institute,New Mexico, Coronado Studio in Austin. She is one of the artists of Flatbed Press and she worked there as a printer and instructor.
On artist's books
From 2 to 6 July 2012
Given by Jordi Rosés engraving and Pilar Lloret master printer
30 hours of workshop
basic material included
languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
No. of students: 10
Registration fee: 275 € I Wish to register to this workshop
Possibility of accommodation in Art Print Residence; more information
This course is aimed at exploring the concept of a book as a work of art, as a unique work and as a limited edition. The participants will also gain an insight into different ways of approaching and putting into practice a project to produce an artist’s book.
CONTENTS:
Books as works of art (as unique works/as limited editions). Defining and choosing the book to be created: What do you want to do? How do you want to do it?
– Available resources (own / external resources).
- Elements involved in the book’s creation: images, texts.
– Defining the supports for ideas: format (dimensions).
– Pages (images, texts), publication (pressrun).
– The support: the type of paper, texture, weight, fibre, folds etc.
– The container: in book format, a folder, a box.
– The materials to make the container: card, wood, plastic, fabric, leather.
– The type of book: tied, sewn, perforated, spiralbound, glued, folded (accordion folds), loose leaves (untied). Japanese bookbinding.
– The bookbinding process: rustic, card, leather, other forms of presentation.
– The parts of a book: front cover, front flyleaves, blank page, fly title, table of contents, foreword, preface, body of the book (texts), index, colophon, back flyleaves, back cover.
– The parts of a page: headers (ornamentation), the heading, text, and footer. Cul de llàntia (a type of ornamentation).
– Techniques for creating limited editions of images: woodcuts, linocuts, intaglio printing, lithography, silkscreen printing, photography, inkjet, computer graphics.
– Techniques for creating texts: the typography, photoengraving, laser printing, photocopies, calligraphy.
- Planning the edition: previous work, preparing the items to be used.
In this course each student can make his own book. We will use the following techniques: intaglio monotype to create images and movable typography stamped on hand for creating texts.
Handwriting
Free calligraphic forms and expressive strokes
From 14 to 17 August 2012
Given by BIRGIT NASS
24 hours of workshop
basic material included
languages: English, German
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
No. of students: 10
Registration fee: 400 € I Wish to register to this workshop
Possibility of accommodation in Art Print Residence; more information
To find the personal writing style and different modification technics is the main content of this workshop. We will work with charakteristic tools like pens, nibs, colapen, brushes and pieces of wood etc. to create letters, words, lines, blocks of text and word-textures. We spend also time in creating backgrounds in different technics.At the end we will collect our calligraphic experiences in a inspiration- and workbook.
For me, calligraphy is a means of allowing images to emerge through the written word, of encountering a text afresh, and of giving it a personal and artistic expression.
1993 Completion of graphic design course at the Alsterdamm art school,Hamburg.
1993 -8 Packaging designer for a Hamburg design agency.
Since 1998 freelance graphic designer and calligrapher.
Since 2010 lecturer for calligraphy at Graphic Design College
Kunstschule Wandsbek, Hamburg
Workshop engraving with photopolymer
Photographic image on photopolymer plates
From 20 to 24 August
Given by Jordi Rosés engraving and Pilar Lloret master printer
30 hours of workshop
basic material included
languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian
Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
No. of students: 10
Registration fee: 400 € I Wish to register to this workshop
Possibility of accommodation in Art Print Residence; more information
Digital revolution of recent years, through the computer, provides the opportunity of adquisition and manipulation images, usually photographs, making it easier and cheaper than before and without having great technical skills.
When digital images appeared, it seemed that printmaking only would be used by artists disconnected from modernity. Instead of expectations, new technologies have been incorporated as a tool in the creative process of printmaking. This is to demonstrate the validity of virtual world on creating original graphic works. Advances in computing and printing have provided new valuesand languages to actual printmaking.
Contents:
- Introduction to the different processes of photogravure. Advantages and disadvantages of using photopolymer.
- Creation of manual positive analog, as a substitute of traditional ecthing on metal, using different materials (creamy pencils, crayons, paints, inks, toner, etc..) and using different supports (plastic or glass, tracing paper, acetates , etc.).
- Creating positive analog by using the copier on black and white.
- Creating positive digital. Image capture, digital image manipulation (Photoshop), generating output curves, digital printing or creating halttone film.
- Photopolymer. Various types and application. Preparing plates. Sunstroke: insolation by vacuum UV or sunlight. Revealed: after-sun and making hard plate.
- The printing plates. Techniques for the photopolymer plates. Advantages of using plastic plates.
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Murtra Edicions
Art Print Residence Murtra Edicions c/ Ramon Llull 1, 08358 Arenys de Munt Tel, Fax 34 937938397 artprintresidence@gmail.com info@murtraedicions.com