Hybrid relief printmaking at home

A playful approach to hybrid printmaking introducing lino cutting and how to combine with collagraph printing and collage to create an abstract individual print. You will develop confidence in combining different processes to create individual prints.

Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.

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Introduction to tutor Mary Dalton and workshop overview

Getting Started

Health and safety, tools, materials and set up requirements

Workshops

Starting with lino cutting; working with pattern
Making a collagraph patterned printing plate
Generating a repeat pattern design for your print
Making an abstract hybrid print

Completion

Aftercare, cleaning and drying times
Ideas going forward

Course includes:

Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
Practical tasks to complete
Helpful materials suppliers list
Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
Additional notes and ideas

You will need:
Tools

Craft knife/scalpel
Scissors
Stick glue
Palette knife or old plastic loyalty card
Cutting matt or kitchen wooden board
Gloves (will get inky)
Apron/old clothes
Piece of clean plastic or glass sheet approximately A4 minimum (e.g. old picture frame perspex) or cereal packet and tape (inking station)
4” brayer printmaking roller
Pack of linocut tools; minimum of small V, small and medium U shapes
Wooden spoon to press print down onto paper

Materials

A4 traditional artist jute backed lino
75ml oil based black printing Ink
75ml extender
Coloured oil based printing inks. (The following product has been specifically designed to change oil paint consistency to printing ink for Relief: Print medium for Relief and Intaglio by Schmincke)
6 sheets A4 paper to print on such as watercolour (smooth not rough), cartridge, photocopy paper – it can be anything smooth to do tester prints
1 A4 thick grey card
Shellac
3 sheets A4 different coloured paper for collage such as tissue paper, brown packaging paper, newsprint, wrapping paper – anything lightweight and smooth
3 sheets A4 Paper for printing - Japanese paper recommended
A collection of textural surfaces, man-made and organic, from around the home, cleaned of loose detritus and dry
PVA glue
50ml vegetable oil
Old cotton rags for clean-up cut into 30cms squares

Set up
Please make sure you have a table or surface suitable to hold an inking station to one side, a clean paper on the other side, and a central portion where you will print. Be aware it can get inky, so do please cover surfaces if required.

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Mary trained at the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MFA in Printmaking. She has been teaching since 2008 and her work is in the collections of the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Library as well as international museums.

Mary's practice is engaged on a daily basis with the ancient environments and woodlands that surround us and that were once the backbone of this island and indeed the world. These landscapes hold stories of the past and a lifeline to save our future and Mary's practice is dedicated to communicate these tales of what is often left unsaid or unseen.

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Hybrid relief printmaking at home

Tutor

Mary Dalton

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