Explore the fun and accessible artform of zine making and produce your own small zine booklets using screen printing techniques.
On this one day workshop you will use a variety of hand-drawn, collaged and digital imagery to create your own zine designs. These will be translated into positives to expose onto screen and then you’ll print a cut and fold zine using a single sheet of A3 paper.
Explore printmaking using tetra pak and recycled materials to create beautiful intaglio prints using drypoint and collograph methods.
On this taster session you will experiment with mark making on recycled tetra pak and packaging using a variety of different tools such as dry point needles, craft knives, and roulette wheels.
You will learn how to use our traditional etching presses in the workshop, how to prepare soaked paper and how to transfer your chosen design onto the Tetra Pak.
Explore the exciting process of Gelli printing on this taster session.
Learn and develop your skills and confidence in using a range of media such as charcoal, pencil and graphite to create drawn portraits, working from reference images.
You will then experiment with monoprinting using a technique in which the inked up plate is drawn into and partially wiped away, creating light and dark areas (chiaroscuro) before making prints of your portraits.
The workshop will be taught in a step by step way with tutor advice and guidance.
Print Club is an informal course which provides access to the facilities at Leeds Print Workshop, along with technician support to explore your own ideas and projects, get to grips with the equipment and build your confidence to work independently in the print workshop.
Print Club will run over 5 evening sessions on Thursdays 19th June – 17h July, 6:00-8:30pm.
Who is Print Club for?
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.
Spend a day learning how to use specialist woodcutting tools to carve your own design into high-quality plywood to print from. You’ll learn how to use oil based inks and use Leeds Print Workshop’s traditional relief printing presses, as well as other printing methods including hand burnishing. This is a great introduction to woodcut techniques.
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.
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:
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.
Join Claire Doble (Hyde Park Source) for a glimpse at the work done by Kirkstall Abbey Gardening Group to maintain the vegetable and flower beds at Kirkstall Abbey and find out about the work done to maintain the flower beds above the museum. Includes a chance to plant some seeds.
Just turn up (normal admission applies).
Part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2025.