Botantical Printing and Template Monoprinting - Making Artists Books and Journals - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

Botanical Printing & Template 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 mono-print. Direct and indirect botanical printing, linear mono-printing, and template printing.

You will learn and explore these processes by looking at and discussing other printmakers' work and by 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, finished prints and an artist’s book to exhibit or to give as gifts.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

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.

Course Resources

Apron or big shirt.

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

Biro

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, Amazon.

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

Some old rags.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.