Drawing and Printing Into Painting (Online Workshop) Winter 2027 w/ Otis Blease

Sale Price: $229.50 Original Price: $255.00

March 8 to March 22 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time

**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.

Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.

DEMO: https://youtu.be/VfyG73T-0sU

Workshop Description

Using simple drawing and printing from home exercises we will embrace the possibilities that arise through happy mistakes.  By utilising the spontaneity of mark making and using drawing and printing techniques to help detach our critical minds, we will aim to reconnect with the element of play within art to help create expressive images. Experimenting will be the key focus on this course.

Workshop Outline

Week 1 - Drawing

We will start with a presentation talking about the cross pollination between drawing, printing and painting. Looking at artist references with a focus on expressive mark making and works that combine various processes, we will consider different approaches to drawing, printing and painting and the possibilities of combining all three in a work.

We will explore drawing exercises that aim to loosen up our approach to drawing.

Week 2 - Printing

Continuing with the themes of week 1 we will introduce elements of printing into our work. By using a mono-printing technique we will learn the possibilities this simple process can bring to drawing and its endless room for experimentation.

Week 3 - Drawing, Printing and Painting.

In the final week we will be combining three approaches into one, using collage to merge printing with painting.

Workshop Materials

Preferred materials, but similar items are fine too.

Week 1

Drawing paper

Graphite sticks

Pencils 2B, 4B, 6B

Charcoal

Coarse Sandpaper (e.g 80 grit)

Sharp utensil to scratch with (e.g etching needle)

Week 2

Black relief Ink (Caligo safe wash)

Coloured relief ink (caligo safe wash)

Extender (caligo safe wash)

Printing roller

2 x Sheet of thin Perspex (Preferably A2 size but depends on preferred image size)

Graphite sticks, pencils, biros anything to make a mark with.

Bamboo barren (or a metal spoon)

Japanese paper or any paper below 100gsm thickness.

Week 3

Glue stick

Pva or equivalent (or a rice glue is perfect)

A2 paper (thicker than 200gsm)

Scissors

Prints from previous week

Materials from previous week to create new prints if needed

March 8 to March 22 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time

**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.

Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.

DEMO: https://youtu.be/VfyG73T-0sU

Workshop Description

Using simple drawing and printing from home exercises we will embrace the possibilities that arise through happy mistakes.  By utilising the spontaneity of mark making and using drawing and printing techniques to help detach our critical minds, we will aim to reconnect with the element of play within art to help create expressive images. Experimenting will be the key focus on this course.

Workshop Outline

Week 1 - Drawing

We will start with a presentation talking about the cross pollination between drawing, printing and painting. Looking at artist references with a focus on expressive mark making and works that combine various processes, we will consider different approaches to drawing, printing and painting and the possibilities of combining all three in a work.

We will explore drawing exercises that aim to loosen up our approach to drawing.

Week 2 - Printing

Continuing with the themes of week 1 we will introduce elements of printing into our work. By using a mono-printing technique we will learn the possibilities this simple process can bring to drawing and its endless room for experimentation.

Week 3 - Drawing, Printing and Painting.

In the final week we will be combining three approaches into one, using collage to merge printing with painting.

Workshop Materials

Preferred materials, but similar items are fine too.

Week 1

Drawing paper

Graphite sticks

Pencils 2B, 4B, 6B

Charcoal

Coarse Sandpaper (e.g 80 grit)

Sharp utensil to scratch with (e.g etching needle)

Week 2

Black relief Ink (Caligo safe wash)

Coloured relief ink (caligo safe wash)

Extender (caligo safe wash)

Printing roller

2 x Sheet of thin Perspex (Preferably A2 size but depends on preferred image size)

Graphite sticks, pencils, biros anything to make a mark with.

Bamboo barren (or a metal spoon)

Japanese paper or any paper below 100gsm thickness.

Week 3

Glue stick

Pva or equivalent (or a rice glue is perfect)

A2 paper (thicker than 200gsm)

Scissors

Prints from previous week

Materials from previous week to create new prints if needed