Tuesday 14, 21, 28 May, 4, 11, 18, 25 June, 2 July 2024, 6.00- 9.00pm

Cost: £452. Plate, ink and paper included

Tutor: Rob White, Michelle Avison

This course explores Carborundum techniques, and uses them to achieve rich painterly marks. Carborundum is great for exploring colour printing and overlaying different colours to achieve diverse marks and creative textural and colour combinations. The plates are relatively cheap to make and we will encourage you to work on a larger scale.

You will look at and discuss a range of print examples, including artist James Anderson's work who is exhibiting at the studio in September. You will make some small test plates to explore the effects of different painting mediums, carborundum grit etc, then move on to make multiple carborundum plates designed to overprint to make complex colour prints and use a la poupée methods to ink each plate in more than one colour.

This course is ideal for printmakers looking to expand their repertoire and wanting to learn more about colour mixing and inking, but it can equally be a fun starting point to learning a new printmaking technique. Carborundum plates can be made at home- they are made with acrylic mediums and grit, avoiding heavy chemicals and solvents, so it is a good technique to know about.