Baldessin Studio is a non-profit open-access printmaking studio that is a Registered Charity with Deductible Gift Recipient status and all donations over $2 are tax deductible. Run by a dedicated team of volunteers and a part-time studio manager, Baldessin Studio needs donations and support to help keep the doors open.
A two-day ‘en-plein air’ workshop – Immerse yourself in a weekend of slow looking, drawing & painting, as you record your impressions of Lloyd Godman’s ethereal greenhouse with artist Nicole Bowller.
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.
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.
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.
This workshop will address perceptual drawing from the human subject.
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. Taking inspiration from nature you will learn to replicate colours observed in our bushland surrounds.
Learn how to make and print photopolymer plates, in combination with digital photography, to create photogravure etchings.
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.
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.
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