Description: Come get your hands dirty while making figurative, abstract and or very experimental graphic masterpieces at the Donkey Mill Art Center. In this 2-day etching workshop, students will be challenged to create images using two resists, a soft ground line combined with the loose and expressive texture of soap ground. Soft ground offers the ability to transfer marks visually similar to a pencil or charcoal line. Soap ground, less controllable in nature, creates graphic painterly texture that accentuates brush strokes, only revealing its true beauty upon printing.
Please Note: Registration willl close Tuesday, April 30 at midnight.
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Supply fee includes:
- Copper plate - one 8 x10" plate
- Paper - Somerset Velvet
- Soap Ground, Soft Ground, inks, brayers, cleaning tools, tarlatan, blue towels, water washable inks
Students should bring:
- Sketchbook
- Lunch or snack, and beverage
About the Artist
Hunter Buck received a BFA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts in 2012 and an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2017. From 2013 to 2014 he was an assistant printer at fine art printing and gallery Paulson-Bott Press (now Paulson-Fontaine Press). From 2014 to 2015 he was a resident and assistant photo-gravure printer for Unai San-Martin at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has participated in group shows in Germany, Iceland, Japan, Italy and the United States. In 2018 he received a fellowship residency at community art center The Ink Shop in Ithaca, NY, where he taught introductory intaglio classes to beginners and experienced printmakers.
