CYANOTYPE

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The Cyanotype process was discovered in the 1840s and then became a popular method of documenting botanical specimens. Learn how to mix and prepare solutions, paint these onto a variety of surfaces and then create imagery using an early photographic method by daylight exposure. Using delicate lace fi ligree patterns, organic plant forms or hard edged patterns, the eff ect of the images against the cyan blue contrast is stunning.

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the foundations of this dynamic and popular form of printmaking. Using an image that you have chosen, learn how to transfer your design to vinyl, use lino tools to cut, ink up your lino plate and, using a small etching press, print a one colour design.

An exciting workshop using lino blocks and textile inks to print your own, unique design onto fabric. Start by transferring your design onto lino. Learn how to cut into the lino to produce your block and then how to print your design onto fabric using textile ink. You will cover the basics of pattern design and, at the end of the day, take home your hand printed fabric.

Wood engraving is at once the simplest and one of the most exquisite forms of printmaking. It is a form of relief printing where tools are used to incise fine marks into the surface and then, from these marks, a print is produced. It is an interesting form of printing where you work in mirror image and draw light not dark. You will engrave and print your own design.

This is an introductory workshop to etching aluminium with copper sulphate, a relatively nontoxic method of etching. Learn how to make a plate for etching using a variety of resists to create mark making. You will then etch your plate using copper sulphate, learn how to ink up your plate and then print your design using a small etching press. Colour will be added using the chine collé method of adding coloured tissue or delicate patterned papers.

An introduction to the exciting world of printmaking. The morning will be spent experimenting with two very diff erent printmaking techniques, drypoint printing and woodcut relief printing. In the afternoon, you will choose your preferred process and, with step by step guidance, produce a unique, final print to take home.