Evening Workshops
These workshops take place on Wednesdays from 7pm to 10pm.
One evening workshops
Etching
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £25 per person per workshop (concessions £20)
- 14 May 2008
Drypoint
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £25 per person per workshop (concessions £20)
Make and print a drypoint plate. Drypoint is a similar technique to etching, but without acid, and is an excellent introduction other printmaking techniques. This workshop uses oil-based inks and white spirit.
This workshop is suitable for beginners.
- 21 May 2008
Monoprint
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £25 per person per workshop (concessions £20)
An experimental workshop using a variety of methods to create several unique prints. Monoprinting is a quick, direct technique, often producing very expressive, painterly prints. This workshop uses oil-based inks and white spirit.
This workshop is suitable for beginners.
- 28 May 2008
Three-week evening workshops
Japanese woodcut
Workshop leader: Wuon Gean Ho
Cost: £85 per person (concessions £60)
Japanese woodblock is a beautiful printmaking technique which is non toxic, involving water based pigments and printing by hand using brushes and a flat disc shaped baren. Learn to design, carve and print your own multicoloured image over the three evening sessions. Please note the last session will start at 6pm. Japanese woodblock printing requires quite a few specialist tools, so please have a look at the pdf document here with regard to things that you should bring with you when you come. Wood, paper and carving tools are provided.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 20 and 27 February and 5 March 2008 fully booked!
Bookbinding
Worshop leader: Richard Roberts
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
This simple and fun course covers the essential techniques and skills for hardcover bookbinding. Each student will make a hand-stiched, multi-sectioned book bound in hard covers. The workshop will run over three evenings and give participants the skills to progress on to any level of book-binding.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 12,19 and 26 March 2008 fully booked!
- 17 and 24 September and 1 October 2008
Etching
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
- Session 1: Make a hard ground etching.
- Session 2: Add textures using soft ground.
- Session 3: Add tones by applying a rosin aquatint.
You will make a print at each stage of the process. Over the three sessions you will develop your image, reworking the same etching plate. This workshop uses zinc plates, etched with nitric acid.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 2, 9 and 16 April 2008 fully booked!
- 8, 15 and 22 October 2008
Introduction to screenprinting
Workshop leader: Nick Morley* or Lydie Gallais**
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
In this workshop you will create a multi-colour screen-print on paper using the photo stencil method. The workshop will cover preparing and coating your screen, exposing and washing your screen and printing with water-based inks. You will learn how to accurately register a multi-layered image, how to plan your design and how to layer different colours.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 20 and 27 February and 5 March 2008* fully booked!
- 23 and 30 April and 7 May 2008** fully booked!
- 16, 23 and 30 July 2008*
- 17 and 24 September and 1 October 2008*
- 12, 19 and 26 November 2008**
Introduction to fabric printing
Workshop leader: Ellie Curtis* or Catherine Walsh**
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
In this workshop you will print a two colour image onto fabric of your choice. The workshop will cover preparing and coating your screen, exposing and washing your screen and printing with water-based inks. You will learn how to accurately register your image onto the fabric, how to plan your design and how to layer different colours.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 30 January and 6 and 13 February 2008* fully booked!
- 2, 9 and 16 April 2008** fully booked!
- 25 June and 2 and 9 July 2008*
- 27 August and 3 and 10 September 2008*
- 22 and 29 October and 5 November 2008*
Printing coloured collagraphs
Workshop leader: Amanda Taylor
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
A basic collagraph is created by collaging and manipulating different found materials which are glued down together on a thin base plate creating a low relief. This plate can further be distressed by ripping and cutting into the plate surface to make more interesting and varied marks. Once sealed with varnish and dried thoroughly, this inexpensive and versatile plate can be inked up and printed using an etching press.
- Session 1
Utilising examples of collagraph prints and plates for inspiration you will make your collagraph plate, utilising an exploratory approach of working with texture and mixed media.
Please feel free to bring along any interesting textures you may have to use to make your collagraph if you choose to, although materials will be provided. Also, have an idea for a composition or bring along a sketch to the session. - Session 2
The second session will involve inking up the collagraph constructed the previous week and then printing it. Inking up using scrim and rollers will be used for different effects and to build up colour on different levels of the collagraph. - Session 3
The third session will provide an opportunity to perfect techniques mastered in the previous week and there will be time to try out chine colle for areas of colour as well as ink or print any new collagraphs constructed since the first week.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 23 and 30 April and 7 May 2008
Photopolymer
Workshop leader: Victoria Browne
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
This three-week course will introduce participants to the unique qualities of photopolymer, a water-based photosensitive plate adapted for relief and intaglio techniques. Participants will work with a different image each session:
- Session 1: Relief printing (flexography)
- Session 2: Polymergravure (hand drawn/painted positive)
- Session 3: Polymergravure (digital positive)
Plates, ink, paper and printing materials will be provided. However a basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop software is required.
Further info:
- 16, 23 and 30 July
Photo etching
Workshop leader: Claire Hynds
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
Over three evenings, learn how to prepare and output images for photo-etching, test exposure times, and develop, etch and print from a zinc plate.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 6, 13 and 20 August
Linocut
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £75 per person (concessions £55)
Make and print a multi-block, multi-colour linocut. Learn about cutting techniques and different inking up techniques using a roller, including making a colour-blend. You will also learn how print your linocut using an albion press and how to plan and register multiple layers of colour. This workshop uses oil-based inks and white spirit.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 27 August and 3 and 10 September 2008
Six-week evening workshop
Introduction to printmaking
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
Cost: £150 per person (concessions £110)
Each weekly session, a new technique will be introduced with the aim that you will be able to use this experience to experiment further with these processes independently after the course.
The techniques covered are as follows:
- Session 1: Drypoint (a similar technique to etching but without acid)
- Session 2: Hard ground etching
- Session 3: Soft ground etching
- Session 4: Aquatint
- Session 5: Linocut
- Session 6: Screenprint
Etching will be using zinc with nitric acid. Sessions 1-5 will involve using oil-based inks and solvents (white spirit and meths).
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
- 9, 16, 23 and 30 January and 6 and 13 February 2008 fully booked!
- 4, 11, 18 and 25 June and 2 and 9 July 2008 fully booked!
- 12, 19 and 26 November and 3, 10 and 17 December 2008
| Evening workshop calendar Click on the name of a workshop for more information Red italic indicates that a workshop is fully booked | |
|---|---|
| May 2008 | |
| 14 | Etching |
| 21 | Drypoint |
| 28 | Monoprint |
| June 2008 | |
| 4 | Introduction to printmaking session 1 |
| 11 | Introduction to printmaking session 2 |
| 18 | Introduction to printmaking session 3 |
| 25 | Introduction to printmaking session 4 |
| Fabric printing session 1 | |
| July 2008 | |
| 2 | Introduction to printmaking session 5 |
| Fabric printing session 2 | |
| 9 | Introduction to printmaking session 6 |
| Fabric printing session 3 | |
| 16 | Photopolymer session 1 |
| Screenprinting session 1 | |
| 23 | Photopolymer session 2 |
| Screenprinting session 2 | |
| 30 | Photopolymer session 3 |
| Screenprinting session 3 | |
| August 2008 | |
| 6 | Photo-etching session 1 |
| 13 | Photo-etching session 2 |
| 20 | Photo-etching session 3 |
| 27 | Linocut session 1 |
| Fabric printing session 1 | |
| September 2008 | |
| 3 | Linocut session 2 |
| Fabric printing session 2 | |
| 10 | Linocut session 3 |
| Fabric printing session 3 | |
| 17 | Bookbinding session 1 |
| Screenprinting session 1 | |
| 24 | Bookbinding session 2 |
| Screenprinting session 2 | |
| October 2008 | |
| 1 | Bookbinding session 3 |
| Screenprinting session 3 | |
| 8 | Etching session 1 |
| 15 | Etching session 2 |
| 22 | Etching session 3 |
| Fabric printing session 1 | |
| 29 | Fabric printing session 2 |
| November 2008 | |
| 5 | Fabric printing session 3 |
| 12 | Introduction to printmaking session 1 |
| Screenprinting session 1 | |
| 19 | Introduction to printmaking session 2 |
| Screenprinting session 2 | |
| 26 | Introduction to printmaking session 3 |
| Screenprinting session 3 | |
| December 2008 | |
| 3 | Introduction to printmaking session 4 |
| 10 | Introduction to printmaking session 5 |
| 17 | Introduction to printmaking session 6 |