Beginners Printmaking Courses
Discover the art of printmaking with City Lit’s Beginners Printmaking courses, available both online and in London. Whether you're new to printmaking or looking to explore new techniques, our expert-led courses provide a solid foundation in the various methods of this fascinating art form.
Learn the essential techniques of printmaking, including relief printing, linocut, monoprint, and screen printing. You’ll gain hands-on experience in creating your own prints, working with different materials, and experimenting with colour and texture. Our tutors will guide you through the process, helping you develop your skills and create unique prints.
With practical lessons, group discussions, and individual feedback, you’ll explore your creativity and gain the confidence to produce your own printed artworks. Whether you're interested in producing limited edition prints, creating designs for home décor, or simply experimenting with printmaking as a hobby, our courses cater to all skill levels.
Explore our Beginners Printmaking courses today, available online and in London, and take your first step towards mastering the art of printmaking.
24 courses available
Monoprinting workshopA monoprint describes a ‘one off’ print, rather than a multiple, similar to a painting. However the marks, and textures achieved from printing layers of ink can produce rich visual effects as they layer and blend. Starting off with the basic monoprinting techniques you will develop these to produce an exciting series of prints to take home.
Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00- Printmaking for beginnersThis fast-paced course reveals some of the processes used to make fine art prints. You will try both relief and intaglio printmaking methods. This course is for beginners and those with limited experience who want to discover how printmaking techniques actually work. An ideal way to start printmaking.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
- Photo etching workshopThis course teaches you how to transfer your own designs and images to an etched metal plate where you can develop them further and print in this 'hands on' workshop. Photo etching processes are great for producing detailed imagery and are ripe for experimenting with colour inking.
Keeley Street
Sat 13 Feb 2027David HolahFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Drypoint and intaglio printmaking in a dayDrypoint is a way of creating grooves in a solid surface, it produces a rich unique type of drawn line, from which you will make prints using intaglio inking methods, This workshop offers the opportunity to use specialist techniques and tools and gain insight into how these sit within the creative practice of artists using drypoint. For all levels, although some experience of drawing is preferable.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
- Printmaking into bookbinding
Explore the three-dimensional possibilities of print. This course will encourage you to develop your initial ideas through experiments with printmaking techniques and bookbinding structures to create an artist’s book. Some printmaking and/or bookbinding experience may be beneficial but not essential.
Keeley Street
Mon 19 Apr 2027Claire Hynds, Margo Van RooyenFull fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Printmaking weekend: printing with recycled materials
Exciting and imaginative prints can be made from the most humble and unexpected materials creating wonderful textures that will add line and tone to your images.Make prints exploiting texture and colour using readily available and simple materials with a low environmental impact.
Keeley Street
Sat 22 May 2027Rosey PrinceFull fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Screen printing workshop: laser cutting stencils
You will be introduced to screen printing without the process of developing and exposing your screen photographically. We will concentrate instead how rich and vibrant screen prints can be achieved through producing both laser-cut and hand-cut stencils, and how to build a vivid composition from your own imagery.
Keeley Street
Thu 3 Jun 2027Rolina Elsje BlokFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Photo lithography workshopPhoto-plate lithography uses light sensitive aluminium plates as a printing matrix for photographic, text or hand drawn images. This versatile process allows you to collage and overprint these elements to create original works in small editions.
Keeley Street
Sat 12 Jun 2027David HolahFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Woodblock printmaking workshop: laser cutting blocks
You will be introduced to the process of wood block printing by combining hand cut marks and laser engraving. We will concentrate on how we can use laser engraving and laser cutting as part of relief printing through building vivid compositions to create your own imagery.
Keeley Street
Thu 24 Jun 2027Rolina Elsje BlokFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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