Composition Explorations with Large Wooden Type
Composition Explorations with Large Wooden Type
Sunday, November 10, 10am-2pm
4 hour workshop | Cost: $130 all materials are included | Limited to 6 students
*Partial scholarships available, for more info click HERE Please apply 30 days prior to date requested.
A workshop exploring shapes and color relationships with large wood type letterforms with many examples: Jack W. Stauffacher’s graphic compositions, Bauhaus typography and other contemporary compositions with type. This workshop will include visual composition exercises where students will explore figure ground relationships with color, repetitive inking techniques including overprinting & ghost printing, and paper ink relationships.
No experience necessary.
Please be conscious that cleanup and putting type away is every students responsibility, it does take time, and is part of the full letterpress experience.
Instructors
Brooke Holve lives and works in Sebastopol, CA. A visual artist for three decades, her art practice has taken her through explorations of calligraphy, bookbinding, printmaking, digital technology and poetry. Interested in combining mediums, she draws from each discipline to make mixed media works, installations, constructions, and artist books. Her work investigates culture, memory, place, language, time and natural phenomena. She often looks for materials and objects that hold a history. The interplay of materials and methods inform her process; and overtime expose possibilities for shaping form.
Eric Johnson began exploring the art and craft of letterpress in 2002. He is the founder of Iota Press and North Bay Letterpress Arts. You can find a history of his printing and press here: A Press History That Leaves Almost Everything Out