Introduction to Block Printing

Printmaking is a vast and varied field that often involves special equipment or access to a studio, but block (or relief) printing is something that anyone can do from their own home. Through demonstration, this class will teach students beginning techniques for relief printmaking. We will go over tools needed and how to use them, transferring a drawing to a block, creating line and texture, and how to successfully pull a print at home.

About art instructor Marly Beyer - Marly Beyer is an artist and illustrator currently living in Los Angeles. Her work ranges from detailed scientific illustration to personal explorations of secret corners and quiet, beautiful, playful, momentary, everlasting human connections. She has worked as an illustration intern at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She is currently the staff illustrator for Maggot Brain magazine via Third Man Records, has been published by Yeti magazine, Social Music Recordings and her work has been shown at the Portland Museum of Modern Art. www.marlybeyer.com