San Francisco Center for the Book

This workshop takes place on two Sundays, one week apart.

Students with previous linocut experience will learn about multiblock carving and printing, in which each carved block is inked with a different color.

We will create designs on 5 x 7" linoleum for two blocks/two colors, then transfer the image onto the blocks and learn about registration so that each color lines up on the finished print. Students will have a week between sessions so they can complete their carving at home, then return to print on the second day.

All students will leave with an edition of their print on quality printmaking paper using a Cylinder Press. 

Students will learn registration methods for hand printing as well, and learn how to edition a print run. The workshop fee includes a carving tool for students to keep.

Prerequisite: Intro to Linoleum Carving & Printing or other single-color lino carving experience.

Materials to Bring: Bring ideas for a simple 5x7" design; ideally at least two sketches so the instructor can help choose which will work best. 

About the Instructor: Patricia Wakida (she/her) is a bibliophile, artist and writer with a background in trade publishing. Her relations to books are kept tangible and toothsome by running wasabi press, making illustrated letterpress books, broadsides, posters and cards on a Chandler and Price tabletop platen press and a small etching press. Patricia’s book arts education began with an apprenticeship in Japanese papermaking in Mino, Gifu- prefecture, Japan in 1996, followed by an apprenticeship at the Arts and Crafts Press under linoleum block artist and letterpress printer Yoshiko Yamamoto, in Berkeley, California. She has also taught linoblock carving and letterpress workshops as a teaching assistant in the book arts program at Mills College, the San Francisco Center for the Book, and ASUC Art Studio.