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Tetra Pak Printing Taster

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 Printmaking – 5 Week Course

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.

Woodcut Relief Printing

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.

Bookbinding with Printmaking – 4 Week Course

Join us for a four-session course exploring bookbinding methods, with opportunity to print your own book covers and end pages using monoprinting techniques.

Explore a range of bookbinding techniques using simple glueing and stitching methods, such as pamphlet stitch books, Japanese stab binding and concertina books. The first session will cover monoprinting techniques to create your own prints onto pages which will be used throughout the course as colourful end pages and soft book covers.

Embossing Taster Session

Learn how to create embossed and debossed patterns onto paper to create subtle imagery.
This taster session explores embossing techniques to produce subtle images on paper. The process uses no ink but creates raised and textured areas on paper using a range of different found materials. You will discover how to soak and use a range of papers to create embossed pieces using our traditional etching presses in the workshop.

Procreate Basics for Portraiture

Explore the exciting possibilities of using Procreate software for iPad to create drawings and portraits.

This is an introductory session in which you will be guided through the basic use of tools and brushes on the software. With these skills you will then be able to create your own portrait.

What experience do I need?

Jigsaw Linocut

Spend a day exploring the jigsaw method of linocut to create an edition of multi-colour prints.

Printing a linocut jigsaw style is an easy way to print a design in multiple colours. You cut the lino block into pieces, ink them up separately, then put the lino block back together to print.

Master Your Vinyasa

Ever stepped into a Vinyasa or an Ashtanga class and wondered what was actually supposed to be happening when the teacher says ‘vinyasa’?

Ever wondered how you’ll ever feel good doing a Chaturanga? Or what the hell a Chaturanga is even supposed to be?

Ever wondered how people float to their forward fold so effortlessly? And how do you get your foot between your hands in one step?

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