Botanical Printing and Monoprinting - Making Artist's Books - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Key details

Date -
Sessions Wednesdays: 1:15pm - 3:45pm
No. sessions 6
Venue Beeston Library, Beeston
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 12
Cost FREE - £60

About this course

Botanical Printing & Mono-printing are ideal gateway processes for beginners to printmaking and a way for experienced printmakers to extend their skills by exploring a range of experimental techniques. Both processes are varied, experimental and fun and can be used individually or in combination to create a one-off, unique image and can be put together to make concertina books, artists' books or visual journals.

During the course you will be introduced to some of the different ways of making a monoprint. Direct and indirect botanical printing, linear mono-printing, tonal mono-printing and colour mono-printing.

You will learn and explore these processes through looking at and discussing other printmakers' work, through demonstrations and personal experimentation.

You will receive individual tuition on how to select print source materials, how to compose your work, mix inks, print your images, and create your books.

By the end of the course everyone will have produced some good quality prints, finished prints and an artist’s book to exhibit or to give as gifts.

You will be able to:

  • Discuss how other printmakers have created their monoprints.

  • Select source materials (botanicals, drawings and photographs) to use as starting points for print.

  • Use printmaking equipment and the press safely.

  • Mix and use water soluble inks effectively to produce a range of creative monoprints.

  • Plan, design and create an artist book from own printed images.

  • Use art and design language confidently to describe your own work.

What you will need to bring to the course:

  • Apron or big shirt.

  • B, 2B, pencils, rubber–WH Smiths, Amazon.

  • Biro

  • A couple of bristle paintbrushes- pack from The Works, WH Smith or Amazon.

  • Scissors.

  • Masking tape- DIY stores, The Range, Hobby craft, Amazon.

  • Pack of Vinyl or Nitrile gloves, B&M Bargains, Sainsbury’s, Amazon.

  • A4 cartridge paper pad (140g paper) – (example Daler Rowney A3 cartridge pad yellow and red cover, or Seawhites cartridge paper pad) The Range, Hobbycraft, WH Smith Amazon.

  • A4 Newsprint pad. Amazon, Jacksons (online) (not essential).

  • Some old rags.

  • Books

    1). Monoprinting. Jackie Newell. Library Catalogue.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

  • Greater London

  • Greater Manchester

  • Liverpool City Region

  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

  • Tees Valley

  • West of England

  • West Midlands

  • West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

  • Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

  • Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

  • You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.

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