Printmaking 1: Introduction to Printmaking

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Level:: 1
Credits:: 40
Length:: 12 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:: £580
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Course Overview

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This course has been designed to allow you to explore printmaking techniques which you can learn at home without the need for complicated equipment or materials. You will carry out a series of projects and experiments and undertake preparatory work including analysis and selection from visual sources. Design, composition and colour projects will help you to turn your ideas into printed images. The course is aimed at complete beginners or more experienced printmakers looking for a new and better approach to their work.

Monoprinting
Relief printing
Collatype collage prints
Combined processes.

The course aims to help students see in a selective way, develop visual ideas and ways of expressing them and explore and use different techniques and media; develop awareness of the history of printmaking and the work of other printmakers.

Postal tuition

You are allocated a tutor and receive their details in your course pack. You work from the course materials and send regular assignments to your tutor. These are returned to you with comment and advice. The course fee includes tutor feedback on your set assignments, but you can purchase feedback and comment on additional pieces of work if you wish.

15 projects and five assignments. Students also maintain a learning logbook.

For more information on assessment, click here - Assessment booklet - to download the Assessment booklet PDF.