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Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers the process of creating prints that have an element of originality.
Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, orplexiglas are also commonly used. Like etching, drypoint is easier for an artist trained in drawing to master than engraving, as the technique of using the needle is closer to using a pencil than the engraver's burin.
In traditional Lithographythe printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a ball grained surface. It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder as a cheap method of publishing theatrical works.
Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a printing press.
Kitchen Litho uses simpler materials to print text or artwork onto paper or other suitable material.
Monotype is a form of printmaking that has lines or images that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. There are many techniques of monoprinting. Examples of standard printmaking techniques which can be used to make monoprints include lithography, woodcut, linocut..
In these sessions we will learn how to produce a hand made matrix, to prepare the sensitive solution and print beautiful blue-prints in cyanotype or ink based prints with the use of a printing press.
The laboratories are suitable for beginners and intermediate students willing to experiment with the technique under supervision of a tutor.
Join us this year for Bookbinding lessons and learn the craft of paper. Upcoming bookbinding workshops include introductions to Pamphlets, Stab Bindings & Concertina, Single Section Case Binding among many more methods.
Bookbinding is the process of building a book, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread.
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