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Photo Etching Weekend

£130.00

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Location Leicester Print Workshop
Date & Time Saturday 4th - Sunday 5th May
10.00am - 4.00pm
Tutor  Emma Gardner

 

NEW FOR 2019! We're very happy to welcome photo-etching back to the studio after a long hiatus, with a new tutor.

A weekend spent learning how to transform your hand drawn or photographic images into etched plates. Hydroplate is a zinc etching plate pre-coated with photo-sensitive emulsion. It can capture very fine detail and can be used in combination with traditional etching techniques.

Course Structure

Saturday

  • Introduction to the LPW and course
  • What is a photo-etching? Principles of process and examples
  • Preparing images and plates
  • Exposing the images onto the plates and developing
  • Applying an aquatint
  • Biting the plate in an acid bath
  • Printing demonstration

Sunday 

  • What is a halftone? Step by step guide
  • Self-directed printing
  • Self-directed printing and experimenting with colour
  • Clean up and evaluation completion

About the Tutor

Emma Gardner is an artist, printmaker and educator. She creates original artwork using collage, photography and printmaking processes. 

Emma’s practice is shaped by her response to places, questioning ideas of space, concealment and transition through printmaking. Her works often evoke a sense of stillness and silence within ambiguous spaces.

Emma studied Fine Art at De Montfort University, Leicester. After graduating in 2012 she joined Leicester Print workshop to help facilitate her practice and was awarded Artist in Residence in 2015. Emma currently teaches a diverse range of printing techniques at LPW. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has a wealth of experience working on creative projects with community groups, schools, museums and galleries. Alongside her practice Emma works as a Learning Officer at Compton Verney Art gallery and Park, where she pursues her passion for learning outside the classroom.

    Bookings

    Online: You can book online here by credit / debit card or Paypal.

    Telephone: You can pay by card over the phone during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm). Call us on 0116 251 4174.

    In person: Call in to Leicester Print Workshop during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) to book and pay by card, cash or cheque.

    Pre-course information: We will send you details of how to find us and what to bring with you when we process your booking. 

    Concessions

    Full-Print Members of Leicester Print Workshop are entitled to a 10% discount on our inhouse courses. Interested in joining LPW as a member? Click here for more information.