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Moku hanga landscape4/25/2023 The 4th International Mokuhanga Conference, IMC2021 NARA, will take place from December 1 to 3, 2021, in Nara, Japan, and as a virtual conference globally accessible online. Glenn Yamanoha is an established painter and printmaker residing in Volcano. Still renowned today as a center of production for the finest sumi ink, Nara is an ideal site for IMC2021. This fourth convening of the conference, titled Sumi-Fusion, will. Here are some of the students’ works from 2 years agoĪnd here is Robin (and me) with some of the students at the end of the course.įinally, click on the link below for details of fees, dates and how to enrol.He has a degree in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle, studied graphic design at Seattle Art Institute and has many years experience teaching design, drawing and painting on the college level. The third of the three day courses will be tutored by Robin Frood, and is Mokuhanga: Japanese woodcut which uses water-based inks, so is a form of printmaking that can happen on the kitchen table. It’s a hugely useful binding: as you can see, it’s a way of attaching single sheets, and it opens out flat. This one is Single Coptic stitch, which is learnt in a day, though it requires practice to perfect it. The basics are easy to acquire and go a long way: I still often use the simple fold book for preference, but it’s good to add a few others for a different approach. I’ve decided to offer a basic book binding course this year. Here you see my regular Monday course beavering away, and here are the sort of etchings that you might make during the 3 day summer course (these were made by students in Venice a couple of years ago, over a weekend, so not even 3 days). Etching can even happen outside if it’s very warm, or if we need to use the large etching bath. My studio is a fabulous place for courses, particularlly in the summer when the light is wonderful, and it’s warm (we hope). Regular etching classes start again in October: please contact Bron if you are interested (Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday mornings) Please contact Bron Bradshaw at or phone 01458 850682 or text 07905644015, to register your interest in any of the above courses, and I’ll send you the booking form and further details. I will be filling in the blanks (of the tree house build) as necessary so as not to lean heavily on the group, rather I am looking for an exciting voyage of discovery, design and making!’ Jim writes: ‘The last thing I want is for people to feel any pressure on them as regards ability or experience as we will be a mixed group of people young and old, male and female, skilled or unskilled. We will explore how structures work, designing with the materials at hand as we make and build. Tree species will be considered and discussed, as will wood science, and building biology (why wood rots etc). Participants will learn basic carpentry, joinery and green woodworking skills, ie splitting and cleaving oak, as well as how to use more modern materials and connections. Taking part in designing and building the Dove Tree Hide will be a very broad and project-specific activity. Suitable for both beginners and more advanced students.įee: £30 per day, or by donation, of skills, materials, money… Mokuhanga – Japanese Water-based Woodcut and Monoprintįurther details to be announced briefly, you will learn a technique that uses the free flowing water-based inks of Mokuhanga to create work that either has structure and can be repeated, using woodcut, or the one-off approach of monoprint, or a combination of both. This year we are running two studio-based courses and one mainly outdoor-based course: details as follows:įurther details to be announced: briefly, this course is a marriage between getting out in the landscape to draw, and coming back into the studio to make prints, so it is designed for both painters and printmakers, or people wanting to develop either of those and the links between them.
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