Emphasizes different media and techniques. Printmaking I is a studio course that concentrates on relief printing such as woodblock and lino block techniques as a method of developing personal imagery. Through a structured approach with demonstrations, reading, and work assignments, students will be exposed to basic and intermediate wheel-throwing techniques and forms. Students will develop their glazes from raw materials and will use basic firing techniques using electric kilns and Raku. The human head and figure are used as the basis for sculptural design.
Students study the construction of portrait and figure executed from life in clay.
Finished clay models may be cast in plaster. Some anatomical study through drawing is required. Armature materials, clay and plaster are provided. Students must purchase clay. This is a course designed to develop the student's understanding of the visual language of painting, as well as a sense of one's own individuality through art.