Woodcut Printmaking, With or Without a Press

Woodcut Printmaking, With or Without a Press

Adult Course | Available

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States
Printroom
Beginner, Intermediate
1/6/2025-1/27/2025
5:30 PM-8:30 PM MST on Mon
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$222.00
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Woodcut Printmaking, With or Without a Press

Adult Course | Available

Participants will be introduced to wood and paper types, carving tools, inks, brayers, and tools for making the impression on the paper (a small wooden burnisher, and a conventional “etching and relief” press).

The instructor will discuss how to store and safely transport paper, ink, tools, and equipment so that participants can set up shop in their own home studio (possibly a kitchen table), or bring equipment for use in the print room at Art Students League of Denver.

“Loaner” carving tools are available for use as needed.

There will be brief demos of steps of the process each class period, to familiarize participants with tried-and-true details of the process of making handsome woodcut prints.

We will also briefly discuss multi-block color prints, and color/reduction woodcut prints.

Meeting #1: Introductions, Safety info; Intro to wood, paper, ink, tools, etc.; Demo of transfer of drawing to block; Participants transfer drawing to block; Demo of carving; Participants begin carving block. Meeting #2: Demo of carving; participants carve blocks. Demo of inking block and printing with hand burnishing tool. Meeting #3: Demo of carving; participants carve blocks. Demo of inking block and printing with printing press. Participants ink and print blocks. Meeting #4 Demo of carving; participants carve blocks. Demo of inking. Participants print blocks.

Students should have some drawing experience.

  • Participants need to bring drawing(s) or sketch(es) to make a woodcut print from.

    Quality woodcut tools and equipment will be available for use.


Keyes, Michael
Michael Keyes

Michael J. Keyes Aurora, CO 720-579-8760. Michael is a painter & woodcut printmaker, & received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Degree from Wright State University in Dayton, OH, & a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Degree from Ohio State University in Columbus. His areas of specialty are drawing, painting, and printmaking. He uses pencil drawing as the “entry activity” and basis for painting and printmaking. He enjoys the tactile sensation of carving blocks of wood, & developing the dramatic starkness of imagery in the prints made from them. The woodcut prints range from-black-and-white, colored multi-block, or hand-colored prints. The subject matter of the prints includes winter landscapes, rural and urban scenes & events, & domestic still life scenes. He is a member of Park Hill Art Club, Aurora Artists Guild, Art Students League of Denver, & Red Delicious Press. His recent exhibitions include one-person shows at Red Delicious Press, Kaladi Coffee DU campus, Aurora Cultural Arts District (ACAD) Gallery, & University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library Gallery. Group Shows include “Traditional Printmaking,” at Core New Art Space, “Gateway to the Rockies” Exhibition at the Aurora History Museum, Members’ Exhibition at the Aurora Cultural Arts District Gallery, “Press Play,” at Lincoln Center for the Arts in Fort Collins, “Pressing Matters,” & “Saving Face” at Art Students League of Denver, Exhibition “528.0”, an exhibition of prints at the Arvada Center for the Arts, in conjunction with “MoPrint” (Month of Printmaking 2020). He won Award of Merit  (shared first place) at the Escalante Canyons Arts Festival, 'Best of Show'" at 'National Arts Program, Front Range Show', & ‘Best of Show’ at the Project Worthmore exhibition, “Our Neighbors, Our Selves".