Spring Stamps

About this event

Create your own unique and beautiful shaped lino cut plates and stamps In this exciting half-day printmaking workshop. Explore working intuitively and organically to build up an original Composition for your print. Suitable for absolute beginners or those with some experience who love printmaking, tutor Jo Will take you through the lino printing process step by step: How to use Cutting tools safely and effectively. How to print Plates with a variety of inks, papers and printing processes How to create Shaped plates/stamps and build up a composition You’ll be introduced to the basic tools through demonstration and will Learn how to carve lino exploring the use of Mark making with one-to-one help. You’ll explore the suitability of images for shaped plates and stamps that can Be developed into a plate with a focus on strong shapes/outlines, and then learn how to cut a shape from the lino. Experiment with materials needed to ink Up a plate and how take a print by hand, using techniques such as overlapping Plates, rotating and offsetting. Everyone will Produce a series of prints on paper to take home at the end of the workshop. About the Tutor: Tutor Jo Shearer is an artist and art educ

Event details

Date

Tuesday, 9 March 2027

Start time

13:30

Venue

Attenborough Arts Centre

University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HA

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