Printmaking weekend: embossing and layering with type
- Course Code: VS726
- Dates: 19/10/24 - 20/10/24
- Time: 10:30 - 16:30
- Taught: Sat-Sun, Daytime
- Duration: 2 sessions
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: susan kenton
Course Code: VS726
Duration: 2 sessions
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What is the course about?
• Exploring type as a design element, as a narrative element and as an element of chance.
• Experimenting with surface, shape and colour.
• Developing technical skills
• Understanding the future possibilities for using type in combination with different printmaking techniques and images.
What will we cover?
• Using paper stencils to screen print with.
• Using colour, shape and composition
• relief printing and embossing with wooden type
• using type to create narrative
Please note that the wooden type you use in these sessions will be prepared/ lasercut beforehand.
We can talk through how one prepares files to do this in class but there is not the time to facilitate the process in this introductory course.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
• print a silkscreen using paper stencils
• ink and print wooden type
• emboss paper using wooden type
• use simple type to form and develop design ideas.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
All levels are welcome.
The course is suitable for beginner printmakers who have some drawing or design experience
and more seasoned printmakers who want to try out new ideas and extend their practice.
You should be able to follow verbal instructions and follow demonstrations.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Through practical demonstrations both to the group and to individuals.
There will be an emphasis on sharing knowledge and experience therefore group discussions and feedback are
encouraged.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
All basic materials are provided.
It is recommended that you bring visual source material i.e. Texts you wish to use.
A note pad and a black permanent marker / sharpie are extremely useful.
No open toed footwear please.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
After this course you may want to consider trying one of the different silkscreen courses we offer, or printmaking and new media courses that include access to the lasercutter. Please ask your tutor for advice and details.
Sue Baker Kenton is an artist for whom drawing is pivotal and whose practise engages with the analogue nature and material resistance of traditional print processes in a digital world. Since graduating her MA Printmaking she has received Arts Council funding for individual research into Lithography at the Curwen Print Study Centre and in 2016 she was appointed etching fellow at Royal Academy Schools, Piccadilly, London. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public and private collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, Word & Image department. Sue regularly undertakes research trips and residencies, these inform the sessions she teaches with an ethos of purposeful play and enquiry. Her experience of comparative process and her engagement with contemporary practice brings a dialogue to her teaching that is both specific and collaborative. Sue Baker Kenton teaches primarily on the advanced programme at City Lit and at several specialist printmaking organisations. For more information please visit: www.suebakerkenton.com Instagram: Sue_bkstudio
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.