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Class in the Spotlight
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Printmaking students experiment with monotype techniques
 Photo by Dane Sponberg (From left) SCAD-Atlanta students Jay Fox, Zina Harabatch, professor Robert Detamore, Vicki Spears and Yee Gyung Yoo examine a viscosity print they created as a class collaboration Feb. 4. By Monique Bos Published: Friday, February 8, 2008 On Feb. 15, Robert Detamore plans to take his Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta students on a field trip to the High Museum of Art. “I usually try to do this every quarter,” explained Detamore, a printmaking professor. “We look at the museum’s Works on Paper exhibition, and they also pull selections from their permanent collection. The students can actually hold the pieces and look at them closely.” The trip provides a unique opportunity for students to handle valuable and important work, and to see how other artists work with the techniques and processes they are learning in their classes. Detamore also illustrates each new method by working collaboratively with students to create a sample print in class. In Monotype/Mixed Process, for example, Detamore and the students have produced work demonstrating additive and subtractive processes and, most recently, a viscosity monotype. Working together allows students to acquire hands-on experience and ask questions before they embark on their own projects. “What we’re doing is alternating a stiff layer with a loose layer to come up with multiple-color prints,” explained Detamore of the viscosity monotypes. “The print then gets one run through the press.” Students roll a base layer of color onto a plate, then draw a design. When they add the next, looser layer in another color, that layer sticks only to the lines of the drawing. They then can add additional layers for various effects. “It goes pretty quickly, and you can get a lot of color through the printer without having to worry about the register,” Detamore explained. “A big advantage to this process is that it goes through the press once; you don’t have to worry about multiple runs.” On Feb. 4, students prepared pieces for a critique Feb. 6. Detamore circulated, offering advice and suggestions. “If there are any issues, we can deal with them tonight, before the critique,” he explained. “It’s a small class, but with monotype, that works pretty well. The students can really spread out.” He added, “The monotype process really encourages spontaneity. The ink usually gets everywhere, but they do a good job cleaning up after themselves.” All but one — advertising design major Zina Harabatch — of the six students in the course are printmaking majors, and Detamore said many of them already have developed their own styles and preferences, which they integrate into the monotype and mixed-process techniques he is teaching them. For example, Steven Keating often creates a series of tiny prints, and Jenna DiGiore works with copper on top of intaglio plates. “They have their own ideas to work with and bring into this medium,” Detamore explained.  |
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