The “lost form” technique – also known as reduction printing – refers to the production of a multicolored print with just a single printing plate. The plate is reduced further and further, while the colors are gradually layered on top of each other on the paper. Multi-layered and precise results can be achieved with low material consumption.
However, this is only one of many possibilities that can be developed together. The course is open to all forms of letterpress printing. Initial ideas for pictures develop through the printing process into previously unimagined artistic works.
The aim is to experiment in various directions and to react to the respective intermediate status during the printing process.
Found or own image material can serve as a starting point. Images that are encountered in everyday life and sometimes viewed in passing or sketches that are not yet regarded as a finished picture are to be transformed by letterpress printing – in linoleum or wood, black and white or in color, stamped and layered, small to large format, as a single sheet or series.
This will give rise to new images that break free from their origins and release further pictorial ideas.
