Relief printing at home
Learn how to create multiple surface relief prints from commonplace items, with detailed guidance from the tutor. Expand your printing skills and create artworks without any specialist equipment. By the end of the course you will have made your own printing dolly, created a selection of textured samples to use in future work and have composed and printed a finished relief printed piece.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor Mary Dalton and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Completion
Getting started
- Health and safety, tools, materials and set up requirements
Workshops
- Making your own printing dolly
- Finding and selecting printing materials
- Making your own texture samples
- Printing a composed image
Completion
- Aftercare and cleaning
- Drying times
Course includes:
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Tools
- Craft knife/scalpel
- Scissors
- Stick glue
- Palette knife or old plastic loyalty card
- Cutting mat or kitchen wooden board
- Gloves (will get inky)
- Apron/old clothes
- Piece of clean plastic or glass sheet approximately A4 minimum (e.g. old picture frame perspex)
Materials
- Black oil based printing ink or black fine artists oil paint with mediums added to increase tack. (The following product has been specifically designed to change oil paint consistency to printing ink for Relief: Print medium for Relief and Intaglio by Schmincke)
- 2 pot plants or objects suitable for still life inspiration
- Scraps of papers, varying thickness and textures
- A collection of textural surfaces, man-made and organic, from around the home, cleaned of loose detritus and dry
- Handful of clean, neutral coloured paper approximately A4, can be print-out paper
- Pile of cut up tissue paper/newsprint/magazines approximately 15cm x 15cm
- Grey board or similar thick card
- PVA glue
- Old cotton rags for clean-up
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- For the dolly:1 palm sized smooth rock/ potato/lump of air-drying clay
- 1 cotton rag approximately 40cm x 40cm
- Big handful of cotton rag strips, no longer than 40cm
- 2-3m of wool/twine/string
- 1 elastic band
Set up
Please make sure you have a table or surface suitable to hold an inking station to one side, a clean paper on the other side, and a central portion where you will print. Be aware it can get inky, so do please cover surfaces if required.
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Tutor
Mary Dalton
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