ONLINE Kitchen Sink Lithography - Thurs 27th May 2021 at 10am
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KC2705aa15
£38.00
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If you wish to take part but are unable to attend the workshop demo live, let us know in the notes field on booking. A video playback service is provided to all students for 30 days.
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Tutor: Karen Carter
Thurs 27th May 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is ideal for students of all levels. No experience necessary!
Workshop details
A fun printmaking workshop using things from the kitchen cupboard! You will be working on tin foil ‘plates’ developed with coca-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.
This is a technique that relies on the principles of oil and water repelling each other and seems like a little bit of alchemy as the cola etches your image into tin foil and the humble photocopy become something to print from. Karen will also cover the use of polyester plates – a slightly more sophisticated version of the process.
Once the plates are made, either to your own designs or from the templates provided, Karen will go through different inking methods from simple black & white, progressing into colour and layering.
Then the exciting bit – getting your prints on paper – a metal spoon, a bit of muscle power (you’re going to be the printing press!) and tips on how to achieve a sharp image.
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.
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.
You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching the live demonstration – the demo session is a time to watch, ask and learn. After the demo you will be sent a link to the recording, which you can watch as many times as you wish for thirty days.
Links to suppliers
www.amazon.co.uk
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)
Thurs 27th May 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is ideal for students of all levels. No experience necessary!
Workshop details
A fun printmaking workshop using things from the kitchen cupboard! You will be working on tin foil ‘plates’ developed with coca-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.
This is a technique that relies on the principles of oil and water repelling each other and seems like a little bit of alchemy as the cola etches your image into tin foil and the humble photocopy become something to print from. Karen will also cover the use of polyester plates – a slightly more sophisticated version of the process.
Once the plates are made, either to your own designs or from the templates provided, Karen will go through different inking methods from simple black & white, progressing into colour and layering.
Then the exciting bit – getting your prints on paper – a metal spoon, a bit of muscle power (you’re going to be the printing press!) and tips on how to achieve a sharp image.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
- Creating a lithography plate on tin foil
- Using polyester plates
- Using photocopies as a printing plate
- Basic inking & printing techniques
- Playing with colour and layering
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.
- Oil paint in black and/or colours if you prefer
- Gum arabic – usually found in the ‘watercolour’ section of an art shop
- 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
- Flour or talc or powdered chalk
- Chocolate
- A variety of waxy or oily drawing media such as crayons, oil pastels, chinagraph pencils
- Waterproof artists pens…..black Sharpie pens are particularly good
- Black & white photocopies (not inkjet prints) of photos or drawings – high contrast images work particularly well (Karen will provide some for you to download…these can be printed on an inkjet printer and then be photocopied)
- 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
You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching the live demonstration – the demo session is a time to watch, ask and learn. After the demo you will be sent a link to the recording, which you can watch as many times as you wish for thirty days.
Links to suppliers
www.amazon.co.uk
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)