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.
Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer on this 5 week evening course.
You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
Our model for this session will be Craig Dyson (aka the Tattooed Nude)
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session.
Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
The model for this session will be Dave Pressland.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session.
Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month! (apart from this month where we've gone for the second Thursday to allow everyone enough time to recover from Christmas and the New Year!)
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
Come join us for a fun and creative wreath making workshop. Learn how to craft your very own beautiful wreath from scratch using a variety of seasonal foliage and decorations. This hands-on event is perfect for beginners and experienced crafters alike. Bring a friend or come solo - either way, you're sure to have a great time getting into the festive spirit.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to unleash your creativity and take home a stunning handmade wreath to display proudly in your home!