Carve Your Narrative: Illustrative Storytelling Reductive Relief Class
Class Description
Explore the intersection of printmaking and comics in this hands-on workshop that combines traditional linocut techniques with visual storytelling. Participants will learn how to translate characters, narratives, and sequential imagery into bold relief prints. Students will learn the basics of sketching, carving, inking, registration and printing with an emphasis placed on composition, contrast, and line quality.
Suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike, this class offers an engaging introduction to both linocut relief printmaking and comic art, resulting in a unique printed narrative that participants can take home.
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $195.00
Non-Member Pricing
Member Pricing: $234.00
4 Day Class
July 25th 10am-1pm
August 1st 10am-1pm
August 8th 10am-1pm
August 15th 10am-1pm
Level of Study:
All Levels
Course Agenda
Over the course of 4 weeks we will cover creating an illustrative image, transferring to the block, carving the block, and then printing. We will be using oil-based ink so it will need time to dry as well before printing additional colors on top. Reductive linocut will help with the registration process and incorporate multiple colors.
Topics Covered
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Creating and illustrative
image/ image transfer -
Block carving
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Printing blocks
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Creating multi-color prints
using the reductive method
Supplies
Materials List (provided by class fees)
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Ink
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Linoleum blocks
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Registration tabs
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Cardboard jigs
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Carving tools
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Tracing paper
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Tape
Materials List (student brings)
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Sketchbook and drawing materials
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Tracing paper
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $195.00
Non-Member Pricing
Member Pricing: $234.00
4 Day Class
July 25th 10am-1pm
August 1st 10am-1pm
August 8th 10am-1pm
August 15th 10am-1pm
Level of Study:
All Levels
About the Instructor – Kat Dienno
Kat Dienno is a printmaker and educator located in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is Visiting Professor at Xavier University where she teaches printmaking, drawing and illustration, and art history. Her current body of work focuses on how women have been represented throughout history and revisits canonical “masterworks” through a contemporary female lens, challenging the historical structures that shaped the art world and determined whose voices were celebrated within it.
