Ref: SLW37588
Using direct approaches to screen printing, rather than photographic elements or flat colour blocks, this short course will open your eyes to the infinite variety of creating texture and layers of marks to conjure your vision. We will cover the use of paper stencils, ghost prints, direct mark-making with charcoal, graphite, water-soluble pastels and crayons, watercolour and combinations of all. You will be applying paint and mediums with brushes and other tools to develop your work, overprinting or not, as the image making leads you along.
You will be inspired by the immediacy of this process which can be developed to create complex layered prints, crossing the bridge between painting and printmaking.
Your tutor has used screen monotype extensively in her work over the last 30 years of her artistic life.
On this course the College will supply most of the materials, including acrylic paint, screen medium, Neocolour water-soluble pastels to share amongst the group and some newsprint, cartridge paper and a water-soluble graphite pencil per student.
Available from shop: A good variety of art materials including paper, paints, brushes, water-soluble graphite pencils and Neocolour water-soluble pastels.
Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear (no sandals or open toes). Possible equipment restrictions in tutor absence.
Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 7.15pm for registration. Students arriving earlier are welcome to purchase dinner in the College Dining Room from 6pm.
Students meet their tutor in the Bar at 7.30pm prompt to go to studios.
First Teaching session: 7.30pm - 9pm (attendance is essential)
Daily timetable
Course teaching: 9.15am - 5pm
Morning session: 9.15am - 12.45pm including coffee/tea break
Lunch break: 12.45pm - 2pm*
Afternoon session: 2pm - 5pm including coffee/tea break
Teaching finishes: 5pm
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm
Teaching finishes: 3pm
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am. Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required.
*Lunch can be purchased on campus, view options
Gail Mason is a painter/printmaker exploring the ‘Emotional Landscape’ through semi-abstract fictive works. With an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, Gail has been a tutor at Spike Print Studio since 2008. Selected for the Royal Academy and a recipient of several national awards, her works have been widely exhibited and collected in the UK.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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