ONSITE Mixed Media Botanical Books - Thur 12th September 2024

SKU: KC120924-10
£110.00
£110.00
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Included in each day:

  • Five hours of expert tuition
  • Homemade cookies on arrival
  • Filter coffee & selection of teas available free all day
  • Freshly prepared lunch
  • Homemade afternoon tea
  • Ample Free Parking
  • Free WiFi
  • Easy ground-floor access


Click Here for directions to The Victory Room, Bucklebury for the 2024 ONSITE workshops

Tutor Karen Carter
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided

Click here for Timings & Refreshments

This class is suitable for complete beginners and those with more experience

Workshop Details
​A fun day playing with a variety of low-tech printing and transfer methods to create simple books exploring the theme of leaves, plants & seedheads.
We will be using tape for simple transfers, creating line monoprints, and printing with found objects and gel plates to create a lovely little botanical book...... a perfect reference piece of techniques or an artists book in its own right.
 
No previous experience needed ….this is a playful experimental approach to working with print and mixed media. Lots of demos and step-by-step instruction.
 
Skills / Techniques Covered
  1. Creating books from a single sheet of paper
  2. Using gel plate and monoprinting techniques
  3. Simple image transfer
  4. Combining and layering various media

Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £5 payable to the tutor during the workshop. The items you will need to bring with you are listed below: 

Students - please bring
 
Paper
  • Lightweight white paper – such as photocopy paper or thin cartridge – for printing onto.
  • Feel free to bring coloured, handmade papers or book pages with you if you want to experiment)

  • The tutor will bring heavier paper to create the base for the books and deli paper
General
  • Acrylic paints – primaries, plus any other colours you may have (the tutor will bring some metallics and pearlescent colours)
  • Oil pastels if you have them (not essential – the tutor will bring some)
  • Acrylic matt medium (the gel sort, not fluid – Pebeo do a good cheap one) or PVA glue
  • Mixing palette /old plate, brushes (whatever you have),
  • Kitchen sponge, kitchen roll,
 
Printing
  • Found objects for printing – such as leaves & seedheads (small – our books are going to be approx. A6 size when finished)
  • Any stencils you have and may wish to use (the tutor will also bring some)

We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
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