Printmaking Basics Summer School

Service Description

This 3 day course is an opportunity to try out several printmaking processes across 3 days! Taught by two of our tutors, Laura Buckland and Craig Frost, you'll be introduced to 6 key processes over the morning and afternoon sessions. Our summer school is great for complete beginners looking to try something new, for students (16+) looking to boost their portfolio or for those interested in our year of printmaking course! Tuesday with Laura will cover exploring mono print in the morning (10am-12.30pm) and mono screen printing in the afternoon (1.30 - 4pm). Mono printing involves working directly with ink that has been rolled out onto a surface and can be played with using drawn marks or by impressing found objects. Mono screen printing is a more painterly technique using water-based inks, you'll explore painting with coloured inks onto a screen to make various marks and can also try making hand cut stencils. Both techniques involve creating one off prints! On the Wednesday Craig will cover tetra pak printing in the morning, this involves making a plate out of recycled food cartons and engraving or cutting out your design. The plate is then inked and passed through the etching press at high pressure to get a print. In the afternoon he'll introduce collagraph printing which is an opportunity to play with more textured surfaces and tones to build a plate, again using recycled materials. On Thursday Laura will be back to introduce you to relief printing, starting in the morning with lino cut - carving into the surface of a block and then rolling with ink to either print by hand or using one of our book presses. In the afternoon you can play with our collection of vintage wooden type and create posters or print over some of your prints from the previous sessions! For any enquiries please email us at norwichprintmakers@gmail.com Please read the cancellation policy before booking Age 16+