December 12 – 13, 2023, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Many thanks to the artist Anja Tchepets for her workshop introducing our participants to EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING: Multiples & Sequels during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“Drawing is mostly associated with classical methods and tools: pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel. However, often an artist makes deliberate decision not to draw with traditional media but use a more unconventional approach. In this course we will be exploring various printing techniques for creating a drawing.
After a short overview of traditional printing methods – etching, lithography, woodcut, silkscreen etc – we will focus on those that are more unconventional which and that can be used outside of the printmaker’s studio facilities. Through a few exercises we will learn various ways of using stencil, frottage and monotype techniques. A library of images, patterns and textures will be created by tracing our own sketches or images from magazines, and by collecting traces from surfaces available on site.
In the second part of this course we will be concentrating on making multiple images and developing them into series, with possibilities of some being made into storytelling sequences. After working on separate pieces of paper we will look at how a double page format influences our drawing series. Different aspects of telling a story with images will be discussed, with the aid of examples of other artists work relative to our own.
In this course, participants will be introduced to wide possibilities of creating images using unconventional printing techniques and will be instructed on how to use this medium. We will work on building up visual vocabulary and apply it in our own artworks. Printing techniques provide a satisfying experience and learn to welcome an uncalculated aspects into our art.” (Text by courtesy of Anja Tchepets)
Day 1
10 am – 10.30 am
Presentation of lecture on the contemporary and historical print art techniques.
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Building up vocabulary by collecting different textures using frottage technique and practising stencil and monotype techniques.
11.15 am – 11.45 am
As a part of warming up exercise we will work together or in a few groups and practise combining different techniques on one page. 11.45 am – 12.30 pm
At the end of first day we will start working on our own compositions experimenting and adding other elements such as type, collage or hand drawn images to our drawings.
Day 2
10 am – 10.30 am
Presentation of lecture on the contemporary artists working with multiple images and aspect of storytelling.
10.30 am – 11.45 am
Working on our compositions by using patterns and textures which will be created by tracing our own sketches or images from magazines, by collecting traces from surfaces available on site and by applying learnt printing techniques.
11.45 am – 12.30 pm
Installation of group exhibition and group discussion of work that was produced.
Anja Tchepets (born in Leningrad, 1970) studied art in Russia (Leningrad), Canada (Montreal) and Germany (Berlin). After a decade spent working as an artist and illustrator in New York she made Berlin her base. She works in the visual areas of painting, drawing, printing, artist books, illustration, film and animation, more lately having been involved in projects combining life drawing with projection. Anja Tchepets exhibits regularly and has done numerous artist residencies in Germany and internationally including England, Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Russia.
