Join us at SPACE on Sunday 20th November for the first in our series of Christmas art workshops. This 2 and-and-a-half-hour-long festive workshop will provide you with the skills to create your own Linocut cards for use this Christmas. In this beginners’ workshop, we will begin with looking at the equipment you need to undertake linocut, and then using a small piece of practice softcut lino you will learn and practice simple carving techniques so that when you come to making your printing plate you will feel confident with your tools.
Once you have learnt how to use the tools you will then start to sketch out your design. Here you will have the option to either create a single colour print (well two colour really owing to the card) (which is the easier of the two options) or a two (three) colour print using a reduction technique. Once completed you will transfer your image to the softcut to begin your carve and produce 5 Christmas Cards.
Due to the time of year we will have Christmas music and mince pies.
We have a limited number of aprons so please do bring one if you have one!
We want this workshop to be affordable and so have limited the cost to £27
Cost: £27
You have the option to purchase your own linocut set to continue creating at home for £20. This includes:
Linocut tool
Barren (used to transferring the image from the printing block)
Ink Brayer (roller)
Ink tray x 2
Softcut sheets x 2
4 small pots of oil-based ink
Card to print on
