Etching

First Saturday of every month 10am - 5:30pm  |  Cost: £110

This one day etching course is designed to take you from idea to finished etching, with Staffan Gnosspellius. The course teaches traditional hard ground etching, how to prepare, draw, bite and print a plate.

Participants then have the choice of whether to add tones to the line image using aquatint or to introduce colour using mono print.

This course runs the same time as the relief printing workshop.

Aquatint option :

Fix tones onto the already bitten line work using pine resin fused to the plate surface and bitten in tonal stages.

Mono print option :

Learn the basic techniques of mark making and colour mixing. Perfect for painters and artists who like a direct approach to image making. 

The course will concentrate on the various mark making opportunities using oil based ink on True Grain. How to use the merits of transparent inks to build up rich colour field layers.

You will begin by making a line etching on zinc, as a base on which to layer the mono print layers.

This course will teach you enough to be confident in accessing the workshop on an on going basis to develop your work.