Monoprinting, Mixed Media & Miscellaneous Art Courses in London

Learn some exciting monoprinting techniques that you can do within the comfort of your own home and make exciting and beautiful hand-made prints without the use of expensive printmaking studio equipment. This short online workshop will provide you with skills and confidence in setting up a small simple print making space at home and to make prints in a creative and resourceful way.

The ‘low-tech’ nature of monoprinting makes it one of the most accessible methods of printmaking but also one of the most creative. This will be an exciting and enjoyable course to develop and inform your current art practice or, as a starting point for complete beginners.

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 screenprints can be achieved through producing both laser-cut and hand-cut stencils, and how to build a vivid composition from your own imagery.

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.

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.