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Creative Workshops For Children
We love printmaking and offer a wide variety of printmaking workshops, exploring a variety of skills and techniques for all ages. We can host one to one workshops, as well as groups. Fantastic for any event, kids party, community group, nursery, pre-school and school workshops. We will design a suitable project around your needs.
Collagraph printing
This workshop allows the children to manipulate materials, identify shapes, create patterns, explore different textures and see cause and effect.
They will use a variety of different tools and techniques to create their collagraph plates before printing them, encouraging them to use their fine motor skills to cut, peel and position. This workshop can be adapted for older children.
Monoprinting
Create a unique one-off print, exploring contrast, form and tone.
This printing technique involves the children drawing on the back of their paper, which has been placed directly onto a smooth inked surface, using pens, pencils, graphite sticks and their fingers to create different tones.
This printing process gives the image a beautiful quality to the line and creates a unique one off print.
Children enjoy seeing the different tonal effects created by using different drawing tools. An important part of the printmaking process is clean hands as we don’t want any smudges on our clean paper!
Relief printing
Children will create a printing block using Styrofoam, by etching into the foam with a variety of mark-making tools to create impressions in the foam base. Experimenting with colour and mark exploration by creating lines, dots and shapes, before transferring their designs to paper using the pasta-printing press or brayers, they will have the opportunity to overlap the original print in contrasting colours or add additional lines and marks to their base and reprint.
This direct hands-on process enables them to have a real connection to the work created as they witness their artwork unfold right before them.
Screen printing
Explore and learn the process of screen printing, using a variety of different tools and techniques to create beautiful bold prints. Design and cut your own paper stencils. Options for workshops to create and make onto a range of papers or print and decorate onto a fabric tote bag or t-shirt. Fantastic for birthday parties !
