Tutor: Liam Biswell
10am - 4pm
This one-day, onsite workshop is designed for a range of abilities encompassing all levels of expertise, including beginners.
Workshop Detail
Printing onto both fabric and paper we will spend the day exploring the very popular drypoint etching process. We will look into various collage techniques and explore colour and texture to produce experimental and high quality finished prints through the etching presses.
We will begin the workshop by choosing relevant reference material from which we will be working from, you are encouraged to bring along your own drawings / sketches / photos / magazine pull outs. We will then talk through the etching plate, press and tools. You will etch your design onto an etching plate using various tools. After etching our plate we will begin the printing using quality Caligo inks onto mould made papers.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10, payable to the tutor during the course.
The tutor may not have the facilities to take card payments for materials in the workshops. Please remember to bring cash or your cheque book if your course involves buying materials from the tutor.
Please Bring With You
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.
10am - 4pm
This one-day, onsite workshop is designed for a range of abilities encompassing all levels of expertise, including beginners.
Workshop Detail
Printing onto both fabric and paper we will spend the day exploring the very popular drypoint etching process. We will look into various collage techniques and explore colour and texture to produce experimental and high quality finished prints through the etching presses.
We will begin the workshop by choosing relevant reference material from which we will be working from, you are encouraged to bring along your own drawings / sketches / photos / magazine pull outs. We will then talk through the etching plate, press and tools. You will etch your design onto an etching plate using various tools. After etching our plate we will begin the printing using quality Caligo inks onto mould made papers.
Skills/Techniques Covered
- Mark-making
- Collage/Texture
- Using the etching press/etching tools
- Chine colle
- Composition/Cropping
- How to effectively ink your etching plates
- Editioning your prints
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10, payable to the tutor during the course.
The tutor may not have the facilities to take card payments for materials in the workshops. Please remember to bring cash or your cheque book if your course involves buying materials from the tutor.
Please Bring With You
- All equipment and materials will be provided by the tutor. The tutor will also provide reference material for you to work from – magazines etc, however it is an option to bring along your own imagery/reference material to the session to work from. This imagery could be photographs, sketches, magazines cuttings etc. We will be working around A6 and A5 size
- Apron
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.