Class Schedule
 All prints are in editions of five with one artist proof.

Day Printmaking II
1 
T August 31		 Supplies, Lockers, Lab Schedule, Videos 
Studio Policies 
S/U Credit 
Studio Safety 
Characteristics of Intaglio Prints, and plate and tool techniques 
- its characteristics 
- the plate, the tools and the technique 
- the printing process 
Print Process 
Attendance Policies 
Materials 
Conracts 
2 
TH September 2		 Health & Safety 
  • Long & short term health effects of traditional techniques 
 Drypoint  
  • Cutting the Plate 
  • Paper Prep 
  • Printing & Inking
  • the expressive quality of line
  • plate size: 5"x7"
  • subject: portrait and landscape
Portfolio Construction 
3 
T September 7		 MSDS forms 

Ferric chloride 

  • as a mordant
  • measuring specic gravity
Drypoint 
  • Continue
Acrylic Hardground: 
  • Preparing the plate for ground
  • Apply the ground
  • Drawing on the Plate
  • Future floor wax
  • getting rid of plate tone
  • stop-out methods 
4  
TH September 9		 Drypoint 
  • Continue
Acrylic Hardground: 
  • Continue
  • Getting rid of plate tone
  • Stop Out Methods
5  
T September 14		 Critique 
  • Drypoint
  • Hard Ground
6  
TH September 16		 Acrylic Softground: 
  • Application of Ground
  • Graphic Chemical Water Based Ink
  • Textural Effects
  • Line Drawings
  • plate: 8" x 10" 
  • subject: still life 
 
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T September 21		 Acrylic Softground: 
  • Continue
 
8  
TH September 23		 Aquatint: 
  • Using Speedball Screen Filler and Airbrush
  • Badger Spray aquatint
  • Resist techniques and methods of exploiting screen filler. 
  • Various methods of exploiting screen filler: 
  • Destruction ground
  • Reverse mezzotint
  • Water resist method 
  • Wax crayon blockout and etch method 
 
 
 
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T September 28		  Aquatint: 
  • Continue
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10  
TH September 30 

 
 

  
 

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T October 5 		  
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TH October 7		 Critique 3 
  • Softground
Aquatint/ Lift Ground 
  • richness of tonal gradations 
  • plate: 8" x 10" 
  • nonobjective composition
12  
T October 12		 Aquatint/ Lift Ground 

Intaglio Type Non Etch print using ImagOn & Aquatint Screen
13  
TH October 14		 Intaglio Type Non Etch print using ImagOn & Aquatint Screen
14  
T October 19		 Intaglio Type Non Etch print using ImagOn & Aquatint Screen
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T October 21		 .
16  
T October 26		 Demo: 
    Relief Roll
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TH October 28		  
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T November 2 		 .
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TH November 4 
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T November 9		 ImagOn basics, working and reworking the plate. 
 
21  
TH November 11		 Critique: 
     
 
22  
T November 16		  Direct Monoprint pre-exposure aquatint method  
 
23  
TH November 18		  Using computer generated imagery. 

Student Presentations of Reseach Projects
24  
T November 23 
 		  
 

Student Presentations of Reseach Projects
  
T November 25		  
25 
T November 30		  Preserving Artwork 
 Matting Demo
26  
TH December 2		 Matting
27  
T December 7 

 
 
 

 Portfolio Prep 

Presentation Techniq 
 
28  
TH December 9		 .
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T December 14		  
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TH December 16		  
  
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