COURSE
£270.00
7 in stock
Throughout the course you will learn techniques to give the best results from your aquatints, including how to ink and wipe the plate in different ways to achieve best results from your images.
If you enjoy this class, you might be interested in joining our one year HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting in September 2025, or our next short course, Etching: White Ground.
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 and a selection of different paintbrushes. It is useful to bring an apron, a pair of rubber gloves for cleaning, and any etching tools that you have.
Aquatint is particularly suitable for describing tone. You will learn a range of different aquatint techniques. Bring an image or images to work from that have tonal information, or where you want to distinguish different areas of texture and tone, for example a pencil, charcoal, pen drawing, painting or a black and white photograph.
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.
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.
Experiment with different aquatint techniques including sugar lift, monoprint resist and spit bite to achieve a range of painterly tones in etching.
This Monday evening class is a unique opportunity to build your etching skills over the course of a year. The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is designed to provide stable building blocks for your printmaking future, whatever your starting point. Over 40 weeks you’ll be guided through a specialist programme delivered over three terms which teaches the principles of etching.
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.
An introduction to linocut relief printing, or as a short course to refresh your skills if you have done some linocut before.
Whether you are a complete beginner or returning to etching, you will come out of this five evening course with great skills and unique prints.
Learn how to mix white ground, ways of using the permeable ground, and how to etch and print your plates for great results. The class is suitable for you if you have done some etching before.
