Second Saturdays Special Guest Artist Chantal Hildebrand- Printmaking Demonstration
Sat, Nov 09
|Oakland
Join us at RBA Creative from 12:30-2:30pm to meet Chantal Hildebrand as she demonstrates her printmaking process and get. Chantal is an Oakland-based printmaker whose work is a personal practice of radical self-love as a Black woman living in today’s world and a celebration of Black bodies.
Time & Location
Nov 09, 2024, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Oakland, 3718 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619, USA
About the event
Linocut printmaking (also known as lino printing or linocut block printmaking) is a printmaking technique where a sheet of linoleum is used as the surface that the artist then carves an image. Woodcut printmaking is one of the oldest forms of relief printing that follows a similar process to that on the linocut process.
For Chantal, the process begins with drawing the piece that she wants to turn into a print. She redraws her sketch either directly on the linoleum block/piece of wood or traces her drawing on the surface of the block. Using a selection of gouges, she then carves out the areas where she does not want ink, leaving the uncarved areas as the parts that will be printed (the image carved on the block serves as a mirror image of what will be impressed on to paper). Once the carving is complete, Chantal inks the block with…