The focus of this workshop is the time you will spend experimenting with a wide variety of printing techniques, used singly or in combination, to change the appearance of your print. We will work with a single etched plate to produce a variety of different prints over the two days.
Explore and produce stunning zinc plate etchings under the expert guidance of Robert Hails. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and experienced printmakers wanting to explore a new technique or extend their practice.
Learn how to design and create a durable, reusable leather covered notebook. No stitching involved!
Learn the skills to make a solander box, also known as a clamshell or drop-spine box.
An excellent workshop for bookbinders, artist book makers and printmakers who require an archival portfolio box.
Learn how to make and print photopolymer plates, in combination with digital photography, to create Photogravure etchings.
Learn the fascinating art of aluminium plate lithography in this two day intensive workshop.
Explore the experimental printmaking technique of Mokulito - a hybrid lithographic process using the surface of wood to create a wide range of gestural and tonal marks.
Through discussion and demonstration we will examine the relationship between the artist’s concepts and the possibilities that the artist book format offers to express your ideas. This is a three day masterclass.
In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to mix myriads of colours from which you will produce a reference guide for future colour work. With your new awareness of colour-mixing, you will explore the painterly freedom of making coloured monotypes.
Extend your relief printmaking skills by cutting and reassembling lino blocks in this playful workshop. Utilise old and new blocks, as well as stencils, transform you image with multiple layers and variations.
This is a three part workshop which includes two online sessions and a full weekend of printing.
This workshop will help you develop a significant body of work with advanced photogravure techniques that focus on larger scale, multi-plate prints.
This three day workshop explores the Collagraph process, plus a suite of drawing and stencilling techniques to produce distinctive printed paintings on paper.
Come and learn this age-old printmaking technique over two days. The appeal of the etched line is mesmerising and universal, from the old masters to today’s most experimental innovative artists, this is the gold standard of printmaking.
One Day Workshop - Where painting meets printmaking, the monotype offers the most flexible and creative way to make unique piece prints.
Mokulito utilises and adapts the principles of lithography allowing you to print from a wooden surface rather than a stone or aluminium plate. Mokulito enables to blend pure litho marks and sharp woodcut marks on the same piece of plywood using a wide range of drawing materials directly on the surface of the wood.
Explore and learn the use of photopolymer printing plates in combination with digital photography to create Photogravure etchings.
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Consider Individual tuition
This workshop will address perceptual drawing from the human subject.
A 2 day intensive, hands on workshop introducing you to the fascinating art of aluminium plate lithography.
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Explore and produce stunning zinc plate etchings under the expert guidance of Robert Hails. Give yourself time and space to create over four days at our beautiful bushland studio. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and experienced printmakers wanting to explore a new technique or extend their practice.
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A week-end Zinc Plate workshop is scheduled for 9 & 10 March 2024
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Explore and learn the use of photopolymer printing plates in combination with digital photography to create Photogravure etchings. This is a low-toxic approach without the use of solvents, or acids.
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A week-end Photogravure workshop is coming up 13 & 14 Feb 2024
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Consider Individual tuition
Are you often frustrated trying to obtain precise colours in your art work?
This one day workshop will teach you how to analyse and refine your colour skills and awareness .
You will make a colour swatch book on beautiful Arches paper, as a reference to have on hand in your studio.
Includes inspiration from nature and natural pigments.
Mokulito - The advanced workshop is here!
Join renowned artist BARBIE KJAR for an immersive week-end into the world of advanced Mokulito.
Designed specifically for artists who possess prior experience with Mokulito or have successfully completed a beginners' workshop with Barbie Kjar. This intensive workshop will delve deeper into the intricate techniques of wood lithography, expanding your creative horizons and refining your existing skills.
This is a two-part workshop consisting of one online session and a full weekend.
A special workshop in association with Chris Ingham and August Carpenter’s 2023 joint exhibition at Australian Galleries explores the painterly possibilities of printmaking through combining experimental approaches to aluminium lithography and mono-printing.
Using Lino blocks that can be cut up and re-assembled.
Introduce paper and acetate stencils which allows you to add another layer to your prints. The results can transform an image.
Where painting meets printmaking: the monotype offers the most flexible and creative way to make unique piece prints.
Explore and learn the use of photopolymer printing plates in combination with digital photography to create Photogravure etchings.
Come and learn this age-old printmaking technique that people continue to fall in love with. The appeal of the etched line is mesmerising, from the old masters to today’s most experimental and innovative artists.
Mokulito utilises and adapts the principles of lithography allowing you to print from a wooden surface rather than a stone or aluminium plate. Mokulito enables to blend pure litho marks and sharp woodcut marks on the same piece of plywood using a wide range of drawing materials directly on the surface of the wood.
This 2 day masterclass focussing on the artists’ book.
Through discussion and demonstration, we will examine the relationship between the artists concepts and the artists’ book.
This masterclass and workshop is ideally suited to experienced printmakers who would like to extend their practice with relief prints and artists’ books under the guidance of award winning artist Dianne Fogwell.
Learn the basics of etching. Produce an image on a zinc plate, explore aquatints, wax pencil and colour. Come along with an idea or a simple drawing and explore the process of producing a small edition. Suitable for all levels.
Make Cyanotype prints and extend them further with toning techniques.
Explore and learn the use of photopolymer printing plates in combination with digital photography to create Photogravure etchings.
Learn how to achieve rich tone, texture and/or very strong colour applying carborundum grit and PVA glue on an acetate plate. Drypoint lines can be combined with the carborundum grit. Dry point is the most direct form of intaglio printing, where a sharp point is used to scratch a mark directly into a metal, perspex or (in our case) acetate plate.
Are you often frustrated trying to obtain precise colours in your art work?
This one day workshop will teach you how to analyse and refine your colour skills and awareness .
You will make a colour swatch book on beautiful Arches paper, as a reference to have on hand in your studio.
Includes inspiration from nature.
Learn the basics of traditional plate lithography, while looking at creating immediate and automatic responses to the surrounding landscape.
Explore the jigsaw method of cutting out shapes from acetate and layering using both drypoint and carborundum
A Master Class for those that want to explore the potential of image to take on a new life in the inky world of printmaking where photographic images and transfers are combined with inks in the form of monoprints, stencils, and other layering techniques
Explore and learn the use of photopolymer printing plates in combination with digital photography to create Photogravure etchings. This is a low-toxic approach without the use of solvents, or acids.
Two Day Workshop - Where painting meets printmaking, the monotype offers the most flexible and creative way to make unique piece prints.
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