ONLINE Printing: Kitchen Sink Lithography - Wed 14th June 2023 at 10am
SKU:
KC1406aa15
£40.00
£40.00
per item
BOOKING DEADLINE: Mon 5th June at 12pm UK TIME
If you wish to take part but are unable to attend the workshop demo live, please select the recording only option below.
All students will be given access to watch our video playback service for 60 days.
Tutor: Karen Carter
Wed 14th June 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for everyone - no experience necessary! You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching this online demonstration – it is a time to watch, ask and learn.
Workshop details
A fun printmaking workshop using items from your kitchen cupboard. We will be working on tin foil ‘plates’ developed with cola and drawing with a variety of media including chocolate! As an extension of this technique we will also use gum arabic to create prints from photocopies of your drawings and photographs.
We’ll work with two different sorts of plates to mimic the qualities of lithography. This is a process that beautifully reproduces drawn marks and, in the case of photographic images, gives them a vintage aged appearance.
We will be relying on the principle of oil and water repelling each other; it feels a bit like alchemy watching the cola etch your image into tin foil and transforming the humble photocopy into something to print from. We will also cover the use of polyester plates in this class – a slightly more sophisticated version of the process.
Once we’ve made our plates, either to your own designs or from the templates provided, we’ll go through different inking methods from simple black & white, progressing into colour and layering. Then comes the exciting bit – getting your prints onto paper!
A metal spoon, a bit of muscle power (you’re going to be the printing press!), some tips from me and you'll have a sharp image in no time.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
Links to suppliers
www.greatart.co.uk
www.hobbycraft.co.uk
www.handprinted.co.uk (can also order by phone)
www.intaglioprintmakers.com (can also order by phone)
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Karen will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.
Wed 14th June 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for everyone - no experience necessary! You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching this online demonstration – it is a time to watch, ask and learn.
Workshop details
A fun printmaking workshop using items from your kitchen cupboard. We will be working on tin foil ‘plates’ developed with cola and drawing with a variety of media including chocolate! As an extension of this technique we will also use gum arabic to create prints from photocopies of your drawings and photographs.
We’ll work with two different sorts of plates to mimic the qualities of lithography. This is a process that beautifully reproduces drawn marks and, in the case of photographic images, gives them a vintage aged appearance.
We will be relying on the principle of oil and water repelling each other; it feels a bit like alchemy watching the cola etch your image into tin foil and transforming the humble photocopy into something to print from. We will also cover the use of polyester plates in this class – a slightly more sophisticated version of the process.
Once we’ve made our plates, either to your own designs or from the templates provided, we’ll go through different inking methods from simple black & white, progressing into colour and layering. Then comes the exciting bit – getting your prints onto paper!
A metal spoon, a bit of muscle power (you’re going to be the printing press!), some tips from me and you'll have a sharp image in no time.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
- Creating a litho plate on tin foil
- Using polyester plates
- Using photocopies as a printing plate
- Inking & printing: techniques & materials
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
- Medium to heavyweight cartridge paper or printing paper (you can also do the Gum Arabic printing over collaged and painted grounds with varying degrees of success)
- Black oil paint (and/or colours if you prefer)
- Gum arabic – usually found in the ‘watercolour’ section of an art shop - plus a soft brush
- A piece of Perspex / glass or something smooth & waterproof to wrap your tin foil around
- Tin foil
- Cola (can be ‘own-brand’ must be fresh & fizzy)
- Vegetable oil
- A variety of waxy or oily drawing media such as crayons, oil pastels, chinagraph pencils, chocolate, plus waterproof artists pens…..black Sharpie pens and biros are particularly good.
- Black and white photocopies (not inkjet prints) of photos or drawings – high contrast images work particularly well….(the tutor will provide some for you to download…these can be printed on an inkjet printer and then be photocopied)
- Optional: Polyester plates (available from Handprinted or Intaglio Printmakers)
- Scissors
- Dessert spoon
- Kitchen sponges
- Kitchen roll
- Small container for water
- Tracing paper or greaseproof paper
- Soft pencil
- Masking tape
- Something flat & non-porous for rolling oil paint onto (glass /piece of acetate or plastic),
- Roller / brayer
- Newspaper
- Kitchen roll
Links to suppliers
www.greatart.co.uk
www.hobbycraft.co.uk
www.handprinted.co.uk (can also order by phone)
www.intaglioprintmakers.com (can also order by phone)
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Karen will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.