This course will cover the basics of relief printmaking techniques using linoleum blocks. The instructor will provide demonstrations and discussions to help you learn the process from start to finish—sketching, transferring of the image, carving, and printing.
Class minimum: 4
Class maximum: 10
Registration is required and can be completed at https://www.artswhitelake.org/events-1/relief-printmaking
About the Instructor:
Tatsuki Hakoyama is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI. Although he works with a broad range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and papermaking, his passion is creating allegorical figurative paintings influenced by magical realist painters. Aside from exhibiting his work in various solo and juried group shows, he teaches as an adjunct faculty at Kendall College of Art & Design and Grand Rapids Community College.
ACWL-Nuveen classes are supported in part by grants from the Michigan Arts & Culture Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nuveen Benevolent Trust.