No experience is necessary for this class and all the materials you’ll need will be provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

Four-day (4x 3hr) Class
An Introduction to Printmaking

This course will introduce you to some of the processes you can access at Belfast Print Workshop and give you the basic skills to continue using them after the course.

You will be given a handbook on the different techniques to keep for your own reference.

You will learn each of the following processes in a supportive environment with all equipment and materials provided. During this course you will have demonstrations and examples shown of the different techniques and one to one guidance.

Monoprinting
Using oil-based relief printing inks you will produce one-off, multi-colour prints, working with stencils.

Collograph
You will use collage to create images and build up texture that will then be printed using our etching presses.

Drypoint
Drypoint is a lovely way of making an Intaglio plate without using acids. A drypoint is not an etching, since acid has not been used to make the lines.
Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing. Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you would like to take your drawings into print. It’s easier than etching as it requires less specialist equipment and no chemicals or acids.

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Designed for beginners and those with some experience. You will be shown how to make your own prints using a variety of techniques under the guidance of your experienced tutor.

Details
Four-Day (4x 3hr) Workshop:
Monday 7th November 2022, 6.00 – 9.00 pm
Monday 14th November 2022, 6.00 – 9.00 pm
Monday 21st November 2022, 6.00 – 9.00 pm
Monday 28th November 2022, 6.00 – 9.00 pm

Weekend Workshop, 5th & 6th November 2022

Collograph evolved as an experimental print process involving layering and glueing. This technique is quick and easy to grasp. Images are rich, painterly and textured.

Printing plates are of card and inexpensive materials such as Polyfilla, PVA, wood glue, carborundum, fabric, natural materials and acrylic floor varnish are used.

No experience is necessary for this course and all the materials you’ll need will be provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

WALK, DRAW, PRINT!
with Linda Barbour

Screen printing class, spread over four weeks.

Beginning November 2nd, artists and BPW member Linda Barbour is tutoring this screen printing class with a twist.

Join us at Belfast Print workshop and we’ll start the class by forraging for creative content in the city centre. With a brief walk and talk, Linda encourages participants to photograph or otherwise create the work they intend on printing, from scratch, giving the class a complete, start-to-finish tutorial on the screen printing process.

No experience is necessary for this course and all the materials you’ll need will be provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

Learn more about your tutor, Linda here.

Details
Four-Day (4x 3hr) Workshop:
Wednesday, 2nd November 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Wednesday, 9th November 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Wednesday, 16th November 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Wednesday, 23rd November 2022, 6 – 9 pm

Screen printing on tshirts for all ages with Dónall Billings. In this three hour screen printing workshop participants will build a spooky image with non-toxic inks provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

All ages are welcome to join the fun, tshirts for printing on are provided and participants are also welcome to bring their own tshirts along if they like.

No experience is necessary for this class and all the materials you’ll need will be provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

Details
Saturday 29th October 2022, 11.00am – 2.00 pm

Weekend Course (2x 6hr) – Cyanotype

This Class is suitable for the complete beginner or for a printmaker who wishes to explore cyanotypes.

Josephine McCormick, our tutor will demonstrate each stage of the technique, provide samples and offer support and advice throughout the weekend. You will be given a handbook for your reference as well.

A cyanotype is a photographic based printing process that produces a lovely cyan blue image when paper, coated with light sensitive liquid is exposed to ultraviolet light.

It is a wonderfully flexible, simple and beautiful print process!

Within this workshop you will learn how to coat your light sensitive paper then expose it to light and once dry to make your very own cyanotype prints.

We will ask you for some photographs in advance, which we will make into a negative, ahead of time, allowing you to print your own personal photographic cyanotype prints.

We will also look at ways it is possible to create your own cyanotype by drawing and marking onto tracing paper if you wish to further explore this printmaking process.

You also will have the chance to make beautiful botanical cyanotypes.

All materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own botanicals. These could be leaves or flowers you have picked or flat objects such as pieces of lace or feathers.

You will have lots of time and space to make your work and experiment with the range of techniques that cyanotype printing allows and will leave with a handful of your own personal prints at the end of the weekend.

Details
Two-Day (2x 6hr) Workshop:
Saturday, 8th October 2022, 10 am – 4 pm
Sunday, 9th October 2022, 10 am – 4 pm

What you’ll get
Everything you need to create some lovely botanical or photographic prints to keep, hang on your wall or gift to a friend!

This workshop will equip you with basic knowledge allowing you to continue cyanotype printmaking on your own.

This is a beginner-friendly class whether it is your first time with printmaking and you’d like to do something creative in you spare time or build upon existing creative practice everybody is welcome, no matter how much experience you have.

Etching and Aquatint with Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Designed for beginners and those with some experience. During this course you will be given a hands-on introduction to etching on Copper. You will be shown how to make your own prints using a variety of techniques under the guidance of your experienced tutor.

Etching is a medium with a long and varied history and can produce prints with great detail, richness and texture. The aim of this course is to give you an idea of the possibilities of the medium and a thorough introduction to working with hard and soft grounds (line, pattern and texture) as well as Aquatints (tones). What you will achieve by the end: You will leave with a small edition of etchings and a foundation on how to create editions of your image to share with others or adding to the growth of your printmaking and artistic practice.

No experience is necessary for this class and all the materials you’ll need will be provided by Belfast Print Workshop.

All are welcome to come and experience this free, three-hour demonstrative masterclass in plate lithography with Dónall Billings.

Photo Plate Lithography is a planographic process based upon the fact that grease and water do not mix. This Masterclass with Dónall Billings will allow you to refine and deepen your technical knowledge, skills and experience in relation to your own practice.

This masterclass in plate lithography offers an opportunity to explore the potential and scope within this area of printmaking; alongside having the chance to revisit the underpinning skills and technical knowledge.

As well as creating artwork and exposing and processing the plates, Dónall will demonstrate how multi-plate images are created and registered.

The word comes from two ancient Greek words: “lithos” meaning “stones,” and “graphein” meaning “scratch” or “write.”

Details
Saturday, 3rd September 2022, 10 am – 4 pm
Sunday, 4th September 2022, 10 am – 4 pm

Links
Linda Barbour on instagram

PresentingTEA & PRINT. Screen Printing as Gaeilge with Dónall Billings (Sold Out)

Each taster session is free of charge and limited to 8 people per session.
Refreshments provided.

Sponsored by Belfast City Council Good Relations Fund.