MONOTYPE WITH STENCILS

Saturday November 13 2010 |10.00 – 16.00

With Carol Nunan and Rebecca Vincent

Learn to make prints using simple acetate shapes inked and layered on to a background plate. Work with the subsequent layers of residual ink to create further interesting prints that change and develop as you work. Incorporate drawn elements and collaged papers – each print will be completely unique!

THE TRANSFER DRAWN LINE

Saturday November 27 2010 | 10.00 – 16.00

With Rebecca Vincent and Carol Nunan

Do you love the direct fluidity of the drawn line? Learn this very simple monotype method of transferring ink through the touch of a tool to the surface of the paper with lots of expressive possibilities. Subtle, immediate mark-making is the beauty of this printmaking technique. Students will learn how to make an at-home registration system that allows for multiple colour drawing and creating prints without a press. If you’ve made monotypes before, bring them along and try drawing into them using this method.

Viscosity Monotypes

With Carol Nunan

Friday | 18 February 2011 | 10.00 - 16.00

This is a very particular painterly approach to monotype. Viscosity monotypes use inks mixed with different amounts of oil. Starting with ink mixed to a thin creamy consistency it is applied to the plate with a anything from brushes to rollers. Spaces are created between the ink by wiping away or by simply not applying the ink all over. One or two successive layers are applied in succession using inks that are gradually mixed to a thicker consistency and these separate like oil and water to create beautifully, colourful painterly affects.

Combining Collage and Monotype

With Mandy Pattullo

Sat/Sun | 5/6 March 2011 | 10.00 - 16.00

The beauty of monotype is the spontaneity and playing with colour using rollers and brushes to created a printed painting. Mandy will combine that with collage elements to build into the layers of your print using text, pattern and tear sheets. You’ll learn to effectively blend colour, achieve interesting results using resists and stencils and even natural materials to create a mixed media print.

REBECCA VINCENT (BFA (hons) MFA) trained at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University then at Newcastle University, specialising in printmaking. She continues to make original prints, exhibiting and selling in various galleries in the region. She has taught printmaking on adult education courses for 13 years. She also leads schools and community workshops and has been a visiting lecturer for fine art degree courses.

CAROL NUNAN (HNDip Visual Communications (hons.) trained as a graphic designer at The National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland. A monotype course with Rebecca became the catalyst for a new career as a fine artist printmaker. Carol has led many printmaking workshops for children and adults. She also exhibits and sells her work through a number of galleries in the North East.

MANDY PATTULLO is an artist who works with textiles, printmaking, photography and artists books. She trained as a surface pattern designer and as a teacher. She exhibits widely in the North East and is a professional selected member of Designed and Made. As well as teaching for CLL she work for ARP Design, for the NHS on an arts project in a hospital and is involved in community arts .