Woodcut Reduction Printmaking Workshop Joseph Vorgity will be conducting a two-day woodcut reduction workshop This method was championed by Picasso and is becoming increasingly popular for its ease of approach and variety of visual results.  Students will make a multi-color print from one matrix block printing layers of oil-based ink with an etching press.   The on block kento registration system will be introduced.  All aspects of woodcut design, proper cutting skills, tool maintenance, mixing and applying ink and special technique applications.

Saturday, November 20th, 9am -4pm. Sunday, November 21st, 9am -4pm.

About the artist:

Joseph Vorgity is a contemporary realist watercolorist and printmaker. His still life, landscape, and figurative subject matter are recognized by strong flat areas of color with sharp lines to delineate shapes. Some themes are narrative, others have a surreal quality while many are created primarily for their beauty and visual impact.  Some of the figurative pieces are modeled after traditional religious pictures of saints and deities while others are related to figures in Japanese woodblock prints of the early 20th century. His strongest influences come from the American Precisionist Movement, the Arts and Craft Movement, and from Japonisme.

Vorgity maintains a studio in Los Angeles and is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. Joseph is also the proprietor of Hyacinth Press which produces woodblock printed greeting cards.