Create your own Christmas cards on our festive themed card printing workshop.
On this workshop you’ll carve your own lino printing block and learn how to use the inks, tools and equipment to make festive lino printed cards. Perfect to send your friends and family a unique handmade card this Christmas!
Join us for a creative and experimental three-session evening course exploring various screen printing techniques for printing onto paper.
On this one day textile screen printing workshop you will learn how to prepare imagery for screen printing, and how to coat and expose screens using the photo emulsion method. You will explore colour using textile pigment inks and learn how to mix colours for screen printing. You will be encouraged to develop a range of surface pattern prints using layering techniques with a focus on colour, shape and pattern.
Explore the exciting process of Gelli printing on this taster session.
Experience the essence of summer botanicals with a captivating blend of pastel drawing, watercolour painting, Gelli plate printing, block printing, and collage.
Join artist and teacher Lydia Rain for an inspiring morning of art exploration, where you’ll learn various techniques to craft a vibrant mixed media painting. Whether you focus on a close-up, landscape, bouquet, or single petal, immerse yourself in the beauty of blooming flowers and create a colourful summer masterpiece.
Monoprinting uses a plate and stencil process and multiple layers of oil-based ink to make unique prints.
This process is a great first introduction into printmaking – you’ll learn about inks and paper, and use our fantastic range of etching presses and equipment in the workshop.
Starting out with simple shapes and block colours you can build up monoprints with complex designs, textures and shades to create a series of prints onto paper.
The course will teach you the fundamentals of screen printing onto paper, introduce you to the equipment and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. By the end of the course, you will be able to use various stencil making techniques and understand their effects. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens.
This course will introduce you to some of the processes you can access at Leeds Print Workshop and give you the basic skills to continue using them after the course. The tutor will demonstrate:
Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts on this one day workshop.
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Explore the beautiful photographic process of cyanotype to create your own cyan-blue prints.
You will learn how to produce a set of cyanotypes where thin objects or acetates are placed directly onto specially-coated paper and then exposed to UV light. When these objects are removed and the paper is washed with water a blue image remains. You will also learn how to use a variety of effects called toning, intensifying and reducing which alters the blue-ness of the prints.