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7 November 2024 - 12 December 2024 ( 15 hours, 5 weeks )
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Waterloo Centre
This course is an ideal follow-on class from the popular Beginners Japanese Woodcut class. You will learn how to use a more versatile Advanced cutting technique and experiment with Advanced printing techniques such as graduated colour or bokashi. Intermediate students will draw from the work of Hokusai and practise traditional ukiyo-e transfer techniques such as hanshita. Advanced students will bring their own projects and explore the many variables that make Japanese Woodcut such a fascinating technique. The class is designed to be a friendly studio environment where the exchange of ideas are welcomed. The tutor Carol Wilhide Justin trained in Japan and RCA and Japanese woodcut is her main artistic practice. Her book ‘Japanese Woodcut: Traditional Techniques and Contemporary Practice’ was published by the Crowood Press in January 2024.
The classes are held in the bookbinding studio C32 which is in the Main Morley Building. The classes are designed to add to and challenge our knowledge of Mokuhanga through presentations, demonstrations, one to one guidance from the tutor and peer support discussions. This promotes a lively and friendly studio environment. Intermediate students will be led through a prescriptive course to learn new technical skills. Advanced students will be expected to be able to work in a more autonomous way on their own projects and to bring their own mokuhanga research to the class to share with the group. There will be exploration and experimentation with other Mokuhanga artists methodology and a critical evaluation of process.
Students on this course will already have completed a Japanese Woodcut Beginners course and have a working knowledge of the processes of mokuhanga. It is essential that the student has a good foundation to access this course because we will be experimenting and exploring with different methodologies, building on existing practice as well as developing more advanced techniques.
Please note that there is a minimal charge (typically £7.50) for woodblock and paper. All other materials used- watercolour pigments, nori etc. are included in the course fee.
If you have your own woodcutting tools do bring them along. For Advanced students please bring images, ideas and ideally a sketchbook to work with for your initial woodcut and your own drawing materials. No aprons required, all other materials provided: woodblocks, tools, paper, watercolours and printing materials.
