CYANOTYPE FAMILY PORTRAIT
Tutor: Jessica Hollywood
15th April
10am – 4pm
6 places
£120
During this day long workshop you will produce your very own unique family portrait. Memorialise your favourite people in a one-of-a-kind blueprint that you will be proud to hang on your wall!
PHOTO INTAGLIO
Tutor: Jill McKeown
Saturday 1st April and Sunday 2nd April 2023
10AM to 4PM each day
£150.00 – 6 places
Suitable for: Beginners
In this workshop Jill McKeown will share the process of photo intaglio. This course is ideal for anyone with a passion for printmaking and photography or digital imagery.
You will have an introduction to photo-etching using photopolymer intaglio techniques. A piece of original artwork (photograph, drawing, collage) is reproduced onto transparent or translucent film or paper and then exposed onto a light sensitive plate. The emulsion on the plate hardens where it is exposed and the softer areas are eaten away and will become the recesses which will hold the ink. Participants should bring a photographic or hand drawn image from which their plate will be prepared.
LINO RELIEF – IN DEPTH
Tutor: Peter brown
Sunday 5th March 2023 for 3 weeks until 19th March.
11 AM – 4 PM
£160
6 places
Lino relief printing with multi plates involves carving a piece of linoleum to create printing blocks. Sharp tools of varying sizes are used to cut lines, shapes and marks into the block. The parts that are left after carving are raised, creating a relief, which transfers to paper when inked. This workshop will introduce a range of mark making techniques, multi plate linoprinting, and working with different coloured inks.
Peter brown will take you through the processes from transferring your image, carving your plate, inking and printing your blocks on our colombian press and registration of multi colour plates.
COLLAGRAPH
Tutor: Merve Jones
Thursday 2nd March 2023 for 5 weeks until 30th March.
10.30 AM – 12.30 PM
£150
6 places
Join long time Seacourt member Merve Jones for an in depth course on collagraph, a technique that offers unique mark making and textural effects. During the workshop you will explore basic collagraph methods using a range of textured papers, vinyls, glues, etc. Textures are added to the mountboard plate much like a collage. These collaged pieces can then be inked up to create collagraph print. The session will include making a collagraph plate from scratch, followed by inking and printing methods. You will explore using both relief and intaglio methods to create a range of images.
LETTERPRESS – COME AND TRY
Tutor: Jessica Hollywood
Friday 31st March 2023 10 AM – 1 PM
£50 – 6 places
Suitable for: Beginners
Come and get your hands inky and your creativity flowing in this taster session workshop which will introduce you to the technique of letterpress.
Jessica will introduce the session by giving you a historical overview about the history of letterpress before allowing you to explore the range of vintage type blocks of varying fonts, and how to use them. You will learn how to compose type, mix inks and operate the different presses, printing on different papers and card to see how letterpress printing creates its unique impression.
SCREEN PRINT COME AND TRY
Tutor: Jessica Hollywood
Wednesday 26th April 2023
6 PM to 9 PM
£50 – 6 places
Suitable for: Beginners
This is a fantastic opportunity to understand the processes of building layers of flat colour, using registration or free placement to a hand pulled, multi coloured prints!
Using prepared screens you will get to grips with colour combination, using a squeegee and working with the screens and presses. This come and try course will give you insight into the technique and prepare you for a longer more in depth course.
Textile Printing with Heat Reactive Dyes
Tutor: Jessica Hollywood
Friday 5th May
10 AM – 1 PM
6 places £50
Suitable for: Beginners
You’ll produce designs on fabric in this session. This technique uses heat reactive dyes and by painting colours, lines and using foliage you will make unique patterns that will make a beautiful take home piece.
Our come and try sessions offer an introduction to some of the key printmaking techniques offered and practiced here at Seacourt, and a glimpse into the processes involved in creating hand-made prints.
TETRA PAK PRINTING
Tutor: Kim Ladd
Sunday 12th March 2023
10 AM – 4 PM
£120
6 places
Tetra Pak printing offers a hugely versatile introduction to Intaglio and Collagraph techniques whether you are a beginner or an experienced printmaker. Your plate (made from recycled juice, milk and soup cartons) is created by cutting, scoring and peeling the surface giving some fabulous effects when inked and wound through the press.
You will learn how to prepare the plate, techniques for inking up and how to use our beautiful Rochat press to print your plate.
TRADITIONAL COPPER ETCHING MINIATURES
Tutor: Penny Brewill
Saturday 15th April 2023 10AM to 4PM
£120.00 – 6 places
Suitable for: Beginners or Improvers
Etching is one of cornerstones of printmaking and offers endlessly fascinating possibilities for any artist.
You will be guided through how to prepare your copper plate, apply wax resist for hard and soft ground line etching, the various drawing and mark-making techniques and tools used to draw image and image correction/stopping out using acid resist varnishes prior to etching the plate.
Penny will teach you how to etch your plate safely and will give a explanation of the various solvents, spirits and varnishes used in etching. You’ll also cover inking, wiping and printing your plate and the correct and safe procedures for cleaning up.
PHOTO DIGITAL SCREEN PRINTING
Tutor: Jessica Hollywood
Wednesdays from 6 PM – 8PM for 6 weeks
Commences Wednesday 3rd May until Wednesday 7th June
£180.00 – 5 places
Suitable for: Beginners who have an understanding of digital manipulation of photographs
Jessica Hollywood regularly uses photography in her work and she is the perfect tutor to guide you through preparing your digital image and creating positive transparencies for the purpose of composing artwork.
You will also receive tuition in screen preparation, applying photographic emulsion, exposing screens and developing images, press setup, mixing inks, registration and correct squeegee usage.
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75 Main Street
Bangor (County Down)
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Northern Ireland
Phone Number: 02891460595
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