Starts: 6 Jan 2025
Learn how to make silkscreen prints. You will learn how to stretch and prepare a screen, explore different methods of screen printing, make a series of colourful mono prints using colour blends, mask out the screen using leaves and found shapes. You will make stencils by tearing shapes from newsprint paper and silkscreen print your first design, using coloured blends to create interesting coloured images. Review your print and redesign a more complex stencil in response to your existing print, cut the stencil, this time using a cutting blade and cutting mat to get more considered effects. You will learn how to over print the work to create exciting multilayered artworks and gain a good understanding of how to register the screens in order to overprint precisely, you will be able to make artwork combining shapes, textures and colours. After learning the basic techniques of silkscreen printing you will be encouraged to develop ideas and work on a personal project with design guidance and one-to-one tutorials from the tutor. To promote confidence and learning, you will work with your peers, intermediate and advanced students will share their experience and knowledge through group discussion.