COURSE
£2,330.00
8 in stock
You’ll establish a firm technical foundation in how to use hard and soft grounds, aquatint techniques including box, spitbite and sugar lift, stop outs and resists, as well as how to prepare paper and use an etching press. We will guide you through increasingly more advanced techniques including colour printing, professional registration and editioning. The year finishes with an exciting opportunity to plan an end-of-year public exhibition with your course mates, giving you something to work towards and celebrate together.
Michelle Avison studied painting at the Slade School of Art in the late 1980s, going on to study Printmaking MA at Wimbledon School of Art. Michelle is an experienced artist educator committed to sharing her printmaking expertise and ideas. Michelle works across different printmaking techniques including etching, relief print, drypoint and monotype. She can be seen on the beach in Scotland and more recently the west coast of Ireland, working directly on her plates in an immediate response to environment and weather.
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.
For the first session please bring a sketchbook, pencils and an apron.
You will need an etching needle and a scraper burnisher, though you will not need them on the first day and we will advise which to buy.
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.
Taster class to find out about the HAUSPRINT Etching Year.
For those wanting to explore etching but feel the pressure of drawing, our three evening course investigates texture, pattern and mark-making through soft ground.
Find unique ways to express yourself, with an exciting combination of external drawing trips and working in the print studio.
