Gel Plate Printing - Burton Joyce Library - Adult Learning

Burton Joyce Library, Nottingham

Date	16 September - 14 October 2024
Sessions	Mondays: 1pm - 3pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Burton Joyce Library, Nottingham View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £35

About this course

Would you like to learn how to mono print using a gel plate to create beautiful colourful and textural prints? This course will teach you an exciting new skill to use in your crafting and art making. Over the duration of five weeks, you will be shown how to use a variety of mediums and different techniques with a gel printing plate to create one-off prints full of texture and colour that can be used in many different craft projects. You will become confident with experimenting with colour, shapes and pattern.

By the end of the course, you will: have explored and learnt many different techniques and gained confidence with using them to make prints with a gel printing plate. You will have created a stack of prints that can be used in week six to make a series of greetings cards and matching tags and/or a collaged piece for you to frame, take home and hang on your wall. The prints can also be used for your own craft projects such as for collage making, using in scrapbooks and for journalling.

You will need:

An apron, big shirt or old clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on.
A set of acrylic paints but essentially basic colours yellow, red, blue, black and white. Can be bought from The Range, The Works, B&M, Hobbycraft, Amazon.
A pack of baby wipes.
A gel plate and brayer if you have one, otherwise one will be provided.
A notebook or sketchbook and pen/pencil.
Different interesting paper to print onto e.g. – copy paper, envelopes, white tissue paper, packing paper, paper bags, newspaper, book pages, maps etc.
Anything you’d think would make an interesting mark i.e. food packaging, lace.

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of 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 webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: