* ETCHING PORTFOLIO - PART I: INTRODUCTION - Kazuko Watanabe

* ETCHING PORTFOLIO - PART II: INTERMEDIATE - Kazuko Watanabe

* ETCHING PORTFOLIO - PART III: Multiple Color Intaglio - Kazuko Watanabe

ETCHING PORTFOLIO - PART I: INTRODUCTION

--Kazuko Watanabe
24 hour workshop
Class #65: September 11, 18, 25: Sundays 10am - 6pm
Tuition $360 Materials $75 Total Cost $435

Introduces participants to basic intaglio techniques, using a range of traditional, contemporary, and new methods and various etching papers. Learn to render various image elements on copper plates, from line drawings to textures and tones, using hard ground, soft ground, white ground, sugar-lift, spit-bite, aquatint, and more. Printing and presentation processes will be covered. Most techniques covered are nontoxic. Enrollment is limited to 7 students.








ETCHING PORTFOLIO - PART II: INTERMEDIATE

--Kazuko Watanabe
24 hour workshop
Class #72: October 9, 16, 23: Sundays 10am - 6pm
Tuition $360 Materials $75 Total Cost $435

For artists with basic experience in etching who want to expand their skills. The course focuses on various photo etching processes, multiple intaglio techniques and combination techniques. Participants will use halftone film and inkjet film for photo polymer gravure, and learn chine colle. Make images from traditional and digital photographs, as well as scanned drawings. Knowledge of Photoshop is helpful (course does not include instruction in Photoshop). Prior intaglio experience required. Most techniques covered are nontoxic. Enrollment is limited to 7 students.







MULTIPLE COLOR INTAGLIO

- Kazuko Watanabe
24 hour workshop
Class #80: November 6, 13, 20: Sundays 10am - 6pm
Tuition $360 Materials $75 Total Cost $435

For artists experienced in etching who are ready for the challenge of making multiple plate color etchings. Participants bring a copper, zinc or photopolymer plate (solarplate) that has been previously prepared by any intaglio method - from simple drypoint to photo-etching or complex computer imagery. This plate will serve as the key plate. Then, using a transfer method, two more plates are prepared for the additional colors. Students also learn to develop shades, texture, and gradation. Kazuko demonstrates scraping and sanding techniques to achieve tone adjustment and color blending using three plates. Prior intaglio experience required. Most techniques covered are nontoxic. Enrollment is limited to 7 students.
Kazuko Watanabe has worked in print media for over twenty years. She has researched and developed three-dimensional prints, print sculpture, the use of intaglio in artist's books and the combination of traditional print media with computer techniques. In 2000, her work was selected for the "Print National" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. In 1999, she received the Library Fellows Award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.


 

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