COURSE
£216.00
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In the first week you will learn how to prepare the plate, apply the aquatint resin and build tones through different ‘biting’ times.
In the second and third weeks you will find out how to use sugar lift and spit bite techniques, which allow aquatint to be applied in different ways.
On the last evening, you will explore the properties of different inks, learn how to wipe the plate to achieve the best results, and make a small edition of prints.
This course is an excellent choice to take alongside our Etching: Hard Ground and Etching: Soft Ground courses.
Rob White is an artist printmaker who has over twenty years of experience working in the biggest print studios in London, firstly working at Thumbprint Editions on projects for Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Richard Deacon and many others.
Rob wanted to add to his skill set and moved to Paupers Press where he’s worked on projects for Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, The Chapman Brothers, Peter Blake and others. Alongside this Rob has had a working relationship with Tom Hammick working on many print projects over the last twenty years. Rob works mainly in etching using many different techniques including sugar lift, spit bite, chine collé working with multiple plates and colours.
Please bring your sketchbook/ notebook, pencils, a selection of paintbrushes, an apron, a pair of rubber gloves for cleaning, and any etching tools that you have.
Aquatint is a technique that allows you to work with a range of tones and markmaking. Bring an image to work from that has tonal or painterly information to work from.
Our south London printmaking studio in Stockwell has a small kitchen with a microwave and fridge, plates, cutlery and mugs. Tea and coffee will be provided.
We recommend taking this course alongside with our Etching: Hard Ground and Etching: Soft Ground courses to build your experience and knowledge in etching.
Whether you are looking for a greater understanding of the hard ground technique or are a complete beginner to etching, you will come out of this four week evening course with new skills and a small edition of unique prints.
For those wanting to explore etching but feel the pressure of drawing, our four week evening course investigates texture, pattern and mark-making through soft ground.
Etching was originally invented as a method for adding decoration to armour during the Middle Ages. Artists began to use metal plates for printing in the 15th century, when Albrecht Durer made work on iron plates. Later artists such as Andrea Mantegna in Italy and Rembrandt in Holland went on to make etchings on copper.
We may take photographs or video in the studio whilst you are there, for our website, social media and other studio marketing. We will always make you aware of this activity. Let us know if you don’t wish you or your work to be photographed and/or identified.
The Jigsaw woodcut course will take you on a journey from the basics of jigsaw woodcut through to advanced prints using multiple layers of jigsaw blocks.
The year will focus on consolidating your etching knowledge, on developing ideas, and on ways to bring ideas and technique together. There will be group discussion, group crit and one-to-one tutorial opportunities which will focus on how to develop your work.
Rethink your sketchbook practice! This fun one-day course is designed to free you from the habit of seeing sketchbooks as just repositories for your drawing.
