Workshops & Courses
Create Cloudscapes with Reduction Lino Printmaking with Steve Manning
Join MAKE Southwest member and printmaker Steve Manning for a one day reduction linocut course with a focus on clouds and skyscapes.
This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to explore the challenging technique of reduction lino printing through the creation of cloudscapes and skyscapes.
Participants will use pre-prepared templates to guide them through the reduction print process.
At the end of the course participants will understand how:
- to use lino gouge
- to use a printmaking press
- to cut a design from a lino block
- the reduction print process works
- to overlay inks
- to effectively roll ink onto a block
- to register an image to paper using Ternes Burton registration method
- to apply the image to paper using a press and/or hand burnishing
This course is open to all abilities and no previous experience of printmaking is necessary.
All equipment and materials will be provided.
Participants must be aged 16 years + to attend this course.
About Steve Manning:
I am an Exeter based printmaker inspired by the big skies, wetlands, and moors of the South West. My work represents these ephemeral landscapes using a medium usually associated with bold blocks of colour. I use reduction printing, mono print techniques and various methods of ink thinning to achieve a lightness of touch often described as ‘painterly’. The creation of my prints is a painstaking exercise using a medium not entirely suited to rendering the fleeting nature of my chosen subject matter! I should be a water colourist but I love the combination of craft and fine art printmaking offers.
Participants will use pre-prepared templates to guide them through the reduction print process.
At the end of the course participants will understand how:
- to use lino gouge
- to use a printmaking press
- to cut a design from a lino block
- the reduction print process works
- to overlay inks
- to effectively roll ink onto a block
- to register an image to paper using Ternes Burton registration method
- to apply the image to paper using a press and/or hand burnishing
This course is open to all abilities and no previous experience of printmaking is necessary.
All equipment and materials will be provided.
Participants must be aged 16 years + to attend this course.
About Steve Manning:
I am an Exeter based printmaker inspired by the big skies, wetlands, and moors of the South West. My work represents these ephemeral landscapes using a medium usually associated with bold blocks of colour. I use reduction printing, mono print techniques and various methods of ink thinning to achieve a lightness of touch often described as ‘painterly’. The creation of my prints is a painstaking exercise using a medium not entirely suited to rendering the fleeting nature of my chosen subject matter! I should be a water colourist but I love the combination of craft and fine art printmaking offers.
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