4 > 8 APR 2016
Escola Secundária Júlio Dantas
The woodcut is not only one of the oldest relief-print techniques, but also one of the most diverse.
Because of its limitations, this medium offers special aesthetic and artistic qualities. To learn the complexities of the woodcut, the participants develop step by step this striking technique with its particular challenges.
This manual experience from cutting the wood until printing by hand, offers creative freedom and joy of experimentation for each participant.
Techniques to develop: black-line and white-line printing; scratching; carving in accumulating points; elimination technique; prints with several plates…
