Hausprint- SLAUGHTERHAUS on-line!

Friday, 05 June 2020

In Hausprint

Hi Visitor,

We’re back! And are excited to announce our new on-line course offer, Hausprint. As a response to the current coronavirus situation we are bringing SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Studio to you at home and have put together new on-line courses, suitable for beginners through to experienced printmakers. These classes are aimed to inspire and offer everything you need to print at home, to give you great ideas for projects and lots of ways of working with minimal equipment- everything you need to #GetGreativeAtHome.

Monoprinting is an obvious place to start learning how to print from home, and there are as many ways to make monotypes as there are artists to make them. So our courses start with a brief session, What can I do with Monotype, Getting Started, introducing the materials and equipment you will need, including suggestions for workarounds you might find at home, and then continue with a series of classes taught by artists who use the techniques in their own work in different ways, so that you are learning from their experience and 10,000 hours of practice! To explain what a monotype is- as the name suggests, it is a one-off print, can be like a drawing or painting, in black and white or colour. It can be quick to make, or take ages- whatever you are feeling- really anything goes!

What can I do with Monotype? 1

Thursday 4 June 2020, 2.00-4.30pm

Tutor: Eleanor Watson

What can I do with Monotype? 2

Thursday 18 & 25 June 2020, 2.00-4.30pm

Tutor: Eleanor Watson

Printing without Thinking: Drawing Techniques in Monotype

Thursday 2 July 2020, 2.00-4.30pm

Tutor: Michelle Avison

Specific, technical 'know how' classes, with helpful professional advice on how to get the best results from your printmaking, start with the opportunity to work with the master of the wooden spoon, Rob White: Relief Printing by Hand. And, something that we have talked about doing for ages, and which should work brilliantly on-line, we are launching our Printmakers Question Time on Tuesday 2 June, a free coffee time session that you are invited to bring your print related questions to, and that our resident 'panel of experts' Michelle Avison and Rob White will try and answer!

All of our on-line classes will be delivered online via Zoom by our experienced artist teachers. You will need to be able to download the app and follow a link sent to you by email to join the course. And they are all fantastic value for your money in these hard times.

We are also continuing to programme classes for September onwards to take place in the studio with low numbers of students to keep social distancing rules.

We are so glad to be back to work after a period of readjustment. Our keyholder members are starting to come back into the studio- working individually at the moment, but we hope to get back to our normal, if less busy socially distanced studio sessions soon.

Work in progress, 2nd plate in the press, 2 plate collograph, Michelle Avison

In all of this strange time, I think that the hope of starting to work again, of getting our hands doing and dirty, has kept many of us going. Some people have I know been making new work, cutting lino, printing by hand, working in collage or making animations, but for some of us who have had more personal difficulties, have been ill or feeling lonely it has been hard to keep going. So, we hope to help everyone with that and invite you to #GetCreativeAtHome with us- starting from next week.

With very best wishes

Michelle and the SLAUGHTERHAUS team.