2023 workshops
GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING WITH A COLLAGRAPH TWIST : 1 PLACE
Friday 2 June
Do you have a Gelli Plate and are looking for advanced techniques in using it? This one day workshop will be using collagraph plates and oil pastel drawings as a starting point for create Gelli plate monoprints.
Cost £90 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.
GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING WITH AN URBAN LOOK : 4 PLACES
Friday 23 June
Do you have a Gelli Plate and are looking for advanced techniques in using it? This one day workshop will be using urban objects instead of the usual flowers and leaves to make images. Washers, old tools and oil pastel rubbings from street furniture will be our inspiration.
Cost £90 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.
CYANOTYPE 1 PLACE AVAILABLE
1-2 JULY.
This intensive weekend will introduce you to the basic theory and practice of cyanotype on a variety of papers then show you how the colouring can be toned and changed to create one off imagery. Explore, basic cyanotype, double exposures, wet cyanotype and much more.
Cost £250 to include most materials
PRINTMAKING WITH NATURE. Includes Paper Lithography & making Joomchi
7-9 July
Over 3 days you will be working with nature as your inspiration. Day one will be all about making substrates, creating botanical contact printed paper with leaves and flowers and using these as the basis for sheets of Joomchi which is a Korean traditional felted paper. Day two will find you printing onto these surfaces using paper lithography and mono printing with delicate pressed leaves and flowers. Day three will be all about collage and making books to capture these precious natural samples. At the end of 3 days you will have a set of beautiful keep sakes to take home to demonstrate the new skills you have learnt.
10am - 4pm each day
Cost: £300 to include some materials.
LINO PRINT OVER THOSE GELLI PLATE PRINTS! NEW
Friday 15 September
Do you have masses of Gelli plate prints? This is the day to work into them. Start by cutting and printing over them with lino using up those interesting gelli plate printed backgrounds. We will look more closely at collaging prints together and make a 4 page leaflet book. Come away with new ideas for your gelli plate print collection.
Cost £100 to include lino and some paper. Bring your stash of printed Gelli plate papers.
MIXED MEDIA SKETCHBOOK TECHNIQUES. Includes Gum Arabic transfer.
23-24 September
Kick start the new term with creativity. Using paper lithography and the humble black-and-white photocopy as your ‘plate’, you can make prints of photographic images.
Together with a variety of mixed media techniques using ink, oil pastel, bleach and acrylic learn how to create personal sketch book pages and artist books.
An ideal workshop to kick start your creativity.
Cost £200 to include most materials
(Please bring strongly contrasting toner photocopies).
COLLAGRAPH USING PLASTER AND TEXTURE
7-8 October
Make interesting collagraph plates using filler and texture. Print using viscocity inking. Add chine collee and blended inking to the techniques learnt in this busy weekend workshop. Suitable for artists new to printmaking and those who want to add new techniques to their practice.
Cost £200 to include most materials
COLLAGRAPH WITH MULTIPLE PLATES
4-5 November
Make exciting multi-coloured images using several collagraph plates over printed. Learn to register images and experiment with this flexible printmaking technique. Suitable for those new to printmaking and artists who want to add printmaking to their practice.
Cost £200 to include most materials
PAPER LITHOGRAPHY ON FABRIC
25 November
Create a stash of textile prints to embellish and develop at a later date. Using a black and white photocopy, transfer indelible images of drawings or text onto a variety of textile surface.
Cost £100 to include most materials.
GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING
Friday 1 December
Do you have a Gelli Plate and are looking for advanced techniques in using it? This one day workshop will cover a variety of transfer techniques using magazines and wax, together with layering and over printing.
Cost £100 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.
"I am an artist using collagraph printmaking to tell stories."
Additional Information
All costs include materials unless otherwise stated.
Places are not considered booked without the receipt of the full course cost.
Costs are none refundable or transferable.
All courses are suitable for beginners and experienced artists.
The weekend courses start at 10.00am till 4.00pm.
Bring a packed lunch. Tea and coffee are provided.
Printmaking is a messy business so old clothes and aprons are advised.
All course fees must be paid 1 week before the course start date.
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