PRINTMAKING (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAG 325
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Develop a sensibility how to develop a print according to the medium they are going to use.
  2. Gain knowledge to multiple colours printing in serigraphy, planography, and mezzotint process.
  3. To understand and summarize the technical aspect and process for a final print.
  4. Progress toward developing a new working style.

COURSE OUTCOMES

Course

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

 

VAG 325

 

 

 

Printmaking

(Practical)

 

The students will -

CO75: Learn and develop the advance level of application of mediums and techniques for printing.

CO76: Understand the drawing and layout selection appropriate for serigraphy, mezzotint.

CO77: Knowledge of Different type of tools for using this Printing technique.

CO78: Develop their own distinctive style with the knowledge gained of various print making methods.

CO79: Progress to develop her unique and creative printing style.

CO80: Gain knowledge how to Produce and customize prints.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular submission.

COURSE CONTENT:

The student will choose any one of the following as a compulsory technique which they will continue in all the four semesters. Besides this they will have to choose one more technique as subsidiary, which they can change in each semester if they want.

  • Relief printing (wood and lino)
  • Lithography (Planography)
  • Intaglio (Etching, Dry Point, Aquatint viscosity, Engraving, Matzoth, Photo Etching)
  • Serigraphy      

Submission: min. 8 works (not less than 12”x 18”)

 

References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • The Printmaking Ideas Book Paperback – Illustrated, August 20, 2019
  • Reddy, Krishna, New ways of color printmaking: signification of materials ,5 Feb 2009
  • Lalit Kala Academy, Graphic Art in India since 1850
  • Bamber Gascoigne, how to Identify Prints: A complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet Paperback, 25 May 2004.
  • The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopaedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present, 4 March 1997
  • D. Kauffmann., Graphic Art and Craft
  • Biegeleisen and Cohn, Silk Screen Techniques
  •  Bernard, David, The Collograph Print
  • Roger Marsh, Silk Screen Printing for the Artist

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Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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