Drawing, Painting and Printing

with John Murphy-Woolford

This course invites students to investigate the creative links between three disciplines; painting, printmaking and drawing.

We will learn how line drawing can translate into monotype line prints, how tone charcoal drawings can be turned into collagraph prints and how these different visual languages can help to guide paintings or be made as a response to paintings.

If you would like to gain experience making collagraph prints and monotype line prints from your drawings and paintings, or would like to plan your painting using drawings and prints, this is the class for you.

If you have no particular project in mind, no problem. There will always be a project proposal for you to engage with in class.     

Summer Term 2025 Dates

29 April

6, 13, 20 May

(Half term 27 May)

3, 10, 17, 24 June

1, 8, 15, 22 July

What students will learn

1.    How to translate a painting, drawing or photo into a monotype linear print.

2.    How to translate a painting, drawing or photo into a collagraph print.

3.    How the different languages and creative potentials of painting, drawing and printmaking can cross pollenate and support each other.  

john Ross: Duomo, collograph

Required materials

Printing materials for monotype line printing and collagraph printing will be provided. (Students should provide their own lightweight cartridge paper.)

All other materials students want to use for drawing and painting should be brought to class.

 If students wish to work from their own source material, please bring good quality photos or electronic devices (tablet) with your images stored on them.

Beethoven cast print

John Murphy-Woolford

Beethoven Portrait