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---------------------------------------------------------- FALL '08 Sessions- 6 week courses
SCREEN-PRINTING FOR ILLUSTRATORS
NOW TAKING REGISTRATION FOR WINTER 2008!
Tuesday November 4 - December 9
Tuesday evenings 6:30pm - 9:30pm Cost: $235 Material Fee: $65
Enhance your illustration using the tactile art of screen-printing! In this popular course, you'll practice in a professional printing studio and develop DIY techniques to set up a small-scale print area in your own home. We'll discover how to create multi-colour screen-prints using various printing, colour separation and registration techniques. We'll create highly detailed film positives with Adobe Photoshop, and also use DIY photocopier techniques. In addition, each member of our collective will contribute to a “drawing/collage jam” to create images for a collaborative zine! Finally, production of self-promotion will be made based on your artistic directive through: business cards, t-shirts, posters, mailers, or artist editions. Increasing in demand, this course is attracting the likes of Art directors, illustrators, graphic designers, and student artists. No previous screen-printing experience or Adobe Photoshop skills are required.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LISTED BELOW ARE SOME OF MY OTHER POPULAR PRINTING WORKSHOPS. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
CYCLIST'S SCREEN-PRINTING WORKSHOP
(CRITICAL MASS) 9-4(one-day workshop)
Cost:$85 Material Fee:$65
Many of us cyclists have an artistic edge and are naturally DIY oriented. Here’s a hands-on, screen-print crash course designed to raise awareness of our creative cycling community in Toronto. We’ll learn fundamental basics of screen-printing and create bike wheel posters, stickers, and canvas bags/or t-shirts. Cyclists are encouraged to bring their bikes to the print studio. Let’s ride in style together at Critical Mass the last Friday of every month.
INTRO TO SCREEN-PRINTING Cost: $235 Material Fee: $65
Join me at our beautiful studio to learn the step-by-step process of silkscreen printing. This versatile course, which offers personalized instruction based on your artistic directive, gives you practical screen-printing skills for a variety of fabrics and papers. We'll discover the process from beginning to end -- from stretching, coating and exposing screens to experimenting with a diverse range of printing techniques using water-based materials. Using DIY and/or professional method, turn your designs into tactile prints or wearable art. Come peel with me......
3 DAY INTENSIVES
3D TEES & ZINES IN 3 DAYS WITH MANGOE PEELER
9am - 4pm(3 day intensive) Cost: $240 Material Fee: $85 Learn how to make 3-D screen-prints! This exciting three-day intensive course introduces young artists to a professional screen-printing studio located in the heart of the 401 Richmond art community. We'll explore the latest DIY printing techniques, and learn how to make silkscreens, film positives, and coat/expose their screens in a darkroom. We'll also experiment with image-making through collaborative drawing exchanges, photocopy manipulation, and collage. Finally, we'll print two-colour 3-D images and check out the illusions using classic 3-D glasses. Each participant will publish and bind a collaborative printed zine to make a great portfolio piece!
As inspiration, I'll share some contemporary examples of rare experimental printed matter and zines. For further exposure as a collective, our finished zine will be displayed at FUNCTION 13 an art & design store located in Kensington Market in Toronto.
JEFF GARCIA is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist specializing in screenprinting and mixed media. Majored in Textiles at Sheridan College's Crafts & Design Program, Jeff has distributed and exhibited his handmade posters and printed music packaging internationally.
“What struck me most about Jeff and his work was the deep and genuine commitment to the visual practice, he’s completely invested in observing, exploring and making. He has a beautiful facility for drawing and composition and uses this to consider his environment in ways that are both moving and provoking. His work fresh, beautiful and often fun, but it also extremely smart and thoughtful.”
Nina Leo, Artist & TOAE 2007 Juror
