Get into the festive spirit and craft your own ornate paper wreath!
Renowned artist Andy Singleton has been celebrated for producing large-scale, intricate sculptures, crafted entirely out of paper. For this Thackray-exclusive workshop, he’ll be helping you craft your very own festive wreath sculpture.
Whether it’s decorating your home, or gifting to a loved one, this workshop will inspire you to create something beautiful and unique this Christmas.
Kick off the holiday season by screenprinting your very own Christmas cards!
Join local screenprinter and artist Jenny Wright for a hands-on workshop learning the basics of screenprinting. Under Jenny’s expert guidance, you’ll design and print beautiful cards to share with your loved ones this Christmas.
All materials will be provided – just bring an apron or wear something you don’t mind getting a little messy!
Here’s what you’ll learn
This workshop will introduce you to a version of collograph which uses relief inking methods to produce prints using our fantastic range of etching presses and equipment in the print workshop.
You’ll use oil based inks, stencils, collage and textures to create an exciting series of prints. This is a great introduction to the collograph technique.
On this one day workshop you will learn how to use the tools, materials and techniques to get started in bookbinding.
You’ll make books from scratch to take away with you using methods such as pamphlet stitch, concertina books and Japanese stab binding, and you will gain some knowledge to keep making books at home.
Bookbinding is great for creating notebooks, sketchbooks, albums or books which are art objects in themselves.
Join us for a taster session exploring linocut relief printing techniques and print a range of your own greeting cards, or designs onto paper.
Your tutor will guide you through designing an image for linocut. You will be shown how to carve the lino block, apply the inks, and print it – both with our traditional Albion and Imperial relief printing presses, and burnishing by hand. You will be shown examples of lino prints and advice on the kind of designs that work best.
The two day 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.
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.
Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts. This one day workshop will cover:
Preparing imagery for screen printing.
Coating and exposing screens.
Mixing inks.
Screen printing methods.
Heat setting/fixing inks to make them washable.
You’ll come away from the session with some finished products with your own design screen printed onto them and a whole lot of knowledge to continue with your own projects.
Explore a range of exciting portrait processes on this five-week course. During the course you will explore and be guided through a variety of techniques for representing the portrait including drawing, monoprint and painting. You’ll explore chiaroscuro in both drawing and monoprinting, will add decorative elements to your prints and learn how to observe and create accurate facial proportions.
This 5 week evening 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:
Monoprinting – using oil based relief printing inks you will produce one-off multicolour prints working with paper stencils and our presses.
Collograph – you will use collage to create images that will be printed using our our presses.