3-day course: Linocut Printmaking (without a press) [SAS22]

Tues 2-Thurs 4 August, 10am-4pm

Jennie Ing is a local artist and an experienced tutor. She intends the course to be fun, concentrating on relief printmaking without a press, and exploring the whole creative process from generating ideas and experimenting with techniques and approaches through to producing a selection of finished linocut prints. Linocut is a fascinating and versatile technique involving the cutting away from the surface of a piece of lino, rolling ink over the remaining area and transferring the ink to paper using pressure. You will work with imagery gained from your choice of photographs, sketches, with a focus on a variety of subject matter. Skills will be developed through experimenting with mark making, working with positive and negative cutting, colour and “reduction block” print and understanding registration methods.

All are welcome: complete beginners and those with some knowledge will enjoy the course and find something new to take away.

CORE SKILLS:

• Colour theory and how to mix ink colours
• Mark making
• Positive and negative cutting
• Relief and mono printing methods
• Reduction block method
• Registration methods
• Work with photographs, sketches and your memories to develop your own source material
• Composition and design to achieve a well-balanced result
• Printing with found object

MATERIALS & TOOLS:

Basic materials are included (lino, other cutting surfaces, paper and ink). Tools will be available to use in the workshop. If you have your own tools, please do bring those along. Jennie is happy to offer advice in advance about buying tools. Otherwise, she will be selling tool sets at a cost of £7. Please let the office know when you book if you would like to buy these.

REFERENCES:

Useful references particularly for those new to printmaking:

• Handmade Prints by Anne Desmet and Jim Anderson
• Learning Linocut by Susan Yeates
• Linocut for Artists & Designers by Nick Morley

TUTOR: 

Jennie Ing is a local artist and an experienced tutor. Look at: www.Jennieingart.co.uk