Description

Saturday and Sunday October 28 & 29 | 10.00 -4.30 |

£120 Full/Keyholder member  |£140 Ordinary Member | £160 Non-member

Students will learn how to combine layers of mark making by using a range of materials to draw and paint directly onto films. Students will also learn how to mix inks with a view to layering and overlapping their imagery onto a range of papers that will then be stitched by hand and bound with a hardcover that features a screenprinted image onto bookcloth

Screen printing is a very versatile printmaking technique, creating simple or complex imagery by producing a series of colour separations which are then individually screen printed onto paper. Edinburgh based illustrator and printmaker Kelly Stewart creates her original screenprints by drawing and preparing every layer by hand, resulting in endless possibilities for combining drawings, painterly marks, collage material, pattern, handwritten text and found graphic patterns together in the one image. The water based tusche washes and acrylic brushstrokes create lithographic-like line qualities which are then translated directly into the screen print process.
Printmaking knowledge is not necessary. If you are an artist working in a different medium or would like to get back into some hand generated work then this is a great opportunity for you.

The workshops will be held at Swansea Print Workshop. Students will have the opportunity to explore mark making techniques as well as advice on how to translate their own drawings/ painted gestures into print.

Swansea Print studio is an artist run studio situated in Swansea city centre. It has a new, full size screen printing bench with all the necessary equipment, as well as a large, well lit drawing room for preparation work and discussion.

Browse Kelly’s website here to see the amazing range of subjects and techniques