Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo Woodblock printing | Thursday evenings in June

Woodblock printing focuses on form and texture, utilizing the physical characteristics of wood to create artistic impressions. In this 4-day relief printing course, we will cover the use of hand tools to design, draw and carve a woodblock. You will be guided through the technical process of printing using a press as well as hand printing using oil-based ink on Japanese paper. By the end of the workshop, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to continue printing at home.

In this beginner friendly workshop, you will develop a series of reduction-cutting and printing techniques to produce multiple colour combinations. Participants will learn to combine the tone, hue and saturation of multiple colours to achieve an edition of prints.  

Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (he/him)
Language proficiencies: English and Spanish

Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo is a graduate of The Ontario College of Art and Design (2001) and obtained his MFA degree at Concordia University in 2008.  He has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in venues such as the International Print Centre in New York, The Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas.  The Vancouver Art Gallery, MARTE- Museo de Arte Moderno in El Salvador and La Halle Saint Pierre in Paris among others.  Originally from El Salvador, his mixed media work on paper addresses issues of historical tramum, collective memory, hybrid identity and ancestry within a diasporic context.