Printmaking Taster Course

This course offers an introduction to printmaking. Guided by one-to-one tutoring from Victoria Browne, a renowned artist with over ten years of printmaking experience, students will learn different techniques each week to develop a portfolio of prints. AAP studio is a low-toxic environment with professional printmaking facilities for a hands-on learning experience for a maximum of 8 students per course.

Course Content

Week 1: Monoprint – An intuitive, direct, painterly technique of printing. This approach allows attendees to develop multiple images and experiment with colour and stroke.

Week 2: Linocut – A relief printing technique, using traditional woodcutting tools. The soft linoleum is cut away to produce a raised surface to be inked, printed and editioned.

Week 3: Etching - An intaglio technique which relies on acid incising through hard and soft grounds. Drawings and texture expose the metal plate, which is bitten, then inked up and printed using a high pressure on an etching press.

Week 4: Aquatint - An intaglio technique used to create tonal areas rather than drawings and texture. An aquatint box applies a thin layer of rosin particles and once adhered to the plate resists the acid to develop a tonal scale.

Week 5: Collagraph – Materials are collaged onto a card base support to create a a textured and incised surface which is later varnished. Collagraph combines both relief and intaglio printing techniques.

Week 6: Editioning – A full day dedicated to editioning the collagraph plates made the previous week, and to develop colour in both relief and intaglio.

Course Code: AAP1103001

Tutor:  Victoria Browne
Dates: Thursdays, 29th Mar - 3rd May 2012
Times: 10am - 5pm
Fee: £360