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Printmaking with Linocut

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  • Is this course for you?

    The course is an introduction to the linocut where you will have the opportunity to produce a basic mono print followed by a more challenging three-colour reduction print. As relief printing, linocut involves cutting away areas of the design you do not want to ink up and print.

  • Required qualifications

    No qualifications or experienced needed but more experienced learners will have the opportunity to develop their skills further.

  • What skills will I develop?

    You will learn how to produce a reduction linocut print by using only one linoleum block, where after each colour you print you remove additional lino for your next colour.

  • Careers

    On completion of the course you can continue to the next level or diversify onto related art subjects like pottery and sculpture or progress onto a higher-level course and onto gaining qualifications in art and design.

  • English and maths

    Although the course is about visual communication, learners will learn key terms, encouraged to use appropriate vocabulary and to discuss their work and that of others. Learners will also learn about measuring, proportioning and perspective.

  • Other important information

    For the first lesson you will need to bring with you an apron and an image to base you design on. You might want to bring your own materials but some resources will provided.

  • Is this course for you?

    The course is an introduction to the linocut where you will have the opportunity to produce a basic mono print followed by a more challenging three-colour reduction print. As relief printing, linocut involves cutting away areas of the design you do not want to ink up and print.

  • Required qualifications

    No qualifications or experienced needed but more experienced learners will have the opportunity to develop their skills further.

  • What skills will I develop?

    You will learn how to produce a reduction linocut print by using only one linoleum block, where after each colour you print you remove additional lino for your next colour.

  • Careers

    On completion of the course you can continue to the next level or diversify onto related art subjects like pottery and sculpture or progress onto a higher-level course and onto gaining qualifications in art and design.

  • English and maths

    Although the course is about visual communication, learners will learn key terms, encouraged to use appropriate vocabulary and to discuss their work and that of others. Learners will also learn about measuring, proportioning and perspective.

  • Other important information

    For the first lesson you will need to bring with you an apron and an image to base you design on. You might want to bring your own materials but some resources will provided.

Testimonials

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Having taught for some thirty years at the college a variety of courses from Art History to Life Drawing, it is great to be able to offer a new course in Printmaking. As a practicing artist, I find it very stimulating to explore different areas of art practice both for itself and for the way one discipline can inform on that of another. The wider range of skills acquired the more options you have to find the most appropriate form to develop ideas. Each medium cab be a unique form of expression and the humble linocut is one of these.

John Hayward

Tutor at South Staffordshire College

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