
Playful Print: Repeat Pattern
Fri 29 Aug - AM For All
Enjoy exploring printing techniques with printmaker Ellen Love.
Translate visual information gathered in the landscape with the simplicity and immediacy of print. Create layers using mono printing and drypoint, including time creating work on a professional press.
A rare opportunity to work with tutors from both the St Ives School of Painting and Porthmeor Print Workshop. Translate visual information gathered in the landscape into multi layered prints using mono printing and drypoint, including time creating work on a professional printing press. You will enjoy this course if you love the simplicity and immediacy of print, an approach that will also benefit and inspire your painting.
Initially you will use mono printing in the studio to familiarise yourself with the possibilities and behaviours of the inks. These are oil based but are washable. On subsequent days this work will be developed in the Porthmeor Print Studio as mono prints and drypoint, utilising the press in the studio. Liz Luckwell, artist tutor will lead the first morning to help you gather ideas from the surrounding landscape. In the afternoon you will be joined by Mary Crockett, a highly experienced print maker, who will help you take those ideas and observations and translate them into mono prints, a fluid and highly versatile medium.
The results can look deceptively simple and striking but requires learning to think ahead, slow down and plan. A great discipline if you are a painter who tends to jump in and hope for the best. On the first afternoon you will explore how the ink behaves, working thick and thin and experimenting with its potential for expressive mark making, building your confidence for the following day when you will use the press.
We keep numbers small on this course to ensure students get the most out of their printing experience. On some parts of the course there will also be co teaching to enable you to get a rich combination of creative and technical input from the tutors. Please note that all three days will be based in our studio in the Penwith next door to the print room. Access to the studio involves a cobbled sloping walkway and several steps.
In the morning be introduced to both tutors. Gather source material around St Ives with artist Luz Luckwell. In the afternoon you will be introduced to the printing materials and both Mary and Liz will co teach to help you explore mono printing initially without a press.
Liz and Mary will both teach together in the morning to give intensive support as you move on to use the presses. Apply what you have learned from the day before trying thick and thin inks, wiping away, creating interesting techniques you might see in etching or expressive oil painting. In the afternoon be introduced to working with drypoint.
Mary will work with you to combine drypoint with mono printing using the marks and sketching ideas gathered on your first morning to add depth and interest to your prints.
The course is ideal for those who would enjoy slowing down their creative process to work in a more considered pace. No experience of art making is required but you will need to be happy to follow instructions.
Our studios are fully equipped and we provide you with all the materials you need for your course. However, if you have a favourite set of brushes or any specialist materials that you would prefer to use, please bring them with you.
Our studios are fully equipped and we provide you with all the materials you need for your course. However, if you have a favourite set of brushes or any specialist materials that you would prefer to use, please bring them with you.
The first day starts at 10am and finishes at 4.30pm, please aim to arrive ten to fifteen minutes before the start time.
All course days after that start at 9.30am and end at 4pm. There are plenty of nearby places to eat and we will serve tea and coffee at break times during the day.
The first day starts at 10am and finishes at 4.30pm, please aim to arrive ten to fifteen minutes before the start time.
All course days after that start at 9.30am and finish at 4pm and there will be an hour for lunch. There are plenty of nearby places to eat and we will serve tea and coffee at break times during the day.