Instructor: Jan Pettersson
Location: Fjøsangerveien 70A
Time: 09.11.— 13.11.26, 09:00— 16:00
Price: 3500
This course is an introduction course in intaglio printmaking concerning the concept of color using the color viscosity process, the understanding of color within this media and the 3 dimensional print.
The Viscosity Method : This technique allows for the printing of multiple colors in a single pass through an etching press. By utilizing a combination of hard and soft rollers and carefully controlling the “viscosity” of the inks, the process creates delicate and vivid multi-colored layers from a single sculptural plate.
You will learn the following: How to create a sculptural plate in relief, how to print the plate, how to mix ink, how to use different types of viscosity in relevance to printing with 2-4 colors juxtaposed/superimposed in 1 plate using a combination of intaglio & 2-4 rollers
For whom: Anyone with love for color intaglio printmaking
Prior knowledge: None
Number of places: 12
Language: Swedish, English
Workshop ethic: Active presence of participants
Week schedule:
Every day 09.00-16.00, rest of the day/evening individual work
Monday 09.00- 10.00 coffee/tea tour of Trykkeriet
Make sure you bring lunch every day during the workshop:
10.00 -11.30 Talk on color viscosity, we look at prints & plates made for the process, what is the difference between a color viscosity print & a regular print made with 2-6 colors? how does the process work, different ways of working the plate, what is high viscosity? What is low viscosity ? Color viscosity demo separating colors & mixing colors. 12.30-16.00 hrs start plate work, demo different approaches.
Tuesday plate work 09.00-16.00
Wednesday morning plate work & proofing in black & white
Wednesday afternoon 1st printing session
Thursday 2nd & 3rd printing session
Friday 4th & 5th printing sessions
Saturday sum up
Jan Stefan Pettersson is an acclaimed Swedish-born artist, printmaker, researcher and professor emeritus. He served as the Head of the Printmaking and Drawing Department at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO)2011-2023. Pettersson is internationally recognised for his expertise in color viscosity printmaking & multicolor copperplate photogravure. Trykkeriet was established in 2009 by professor Jan Pettersson & Asbjørn Hollerud.
Pettersson’s deep specialisation in color viscosity printing stems from a world-class training background & professional experience in having worked at numerous professional print studios in New York.
Studies:
• Grafikskolan FORUM: Studied in Malmö under the legendary Swedish printmaker Professor Bertil Lundberg.
• Atelier 17: Trained in Paris under Stanley William Hayter, the absolute pioneer who co-developed color viscosity printing.
• New York University (NYU): Studied under Professor Krishna Reddy, the master printmaker celebrated for revolutionizing simultaneous multi-color print production from a single plate.
Litterature:
Technical
Reddy, Krishna Intaglio Simultaneous Color Viscosity Printmaking, 1988, ISBN 0-88706-740-9
Peterdi, Gabor, Printmaking, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co,1980, ISBN 0-02596060-1
Saff Donald and Sacilotto Deli, Printmaking, History and Process, Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1978 ISBN 0-88706-740-9
Pettersson Jan, Photogravure an Archaeological Research, ISBN 82 8013 059 4, Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, 2007
Books on the concept of print
Pettersson, Jan, Printmaking in the Expanded Field a pocketbook for the future collected texts and thoughts, ISBN 978-82-92613-66-5, KHiO, 2017
Printmaking in the Expanded Field LIVE FEEDS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-rUoNwZQ25d5h2tUJWu56Q5zsNs5gQtd
Wye, Deborah Thinking Print ISBN 0810961644
Tallman, Susan The Contemporary print ISBN 0 500 23684 4 Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective ISBN 978-0-9558628-9-2
Cherix, Christophe, Print/Out 20 years in print,2012, The Museum of Modern Art New York
Anne Mæglin-Delcroix, Estètique du livre dàrtiste, Èditions Jean-Michel Place/Biblioteque National de France, Paris, 1997, ISBN 2-85893-291-3
