Etching Weekend at WYPW

Weekend course
Saturday 26th / Sunday 27th November 2016
11 am – 5 pm
£135.00

Tutor: Kate Desforges

This course will teach you all the basics of hard and soft ground etching, along with aquatint, to enable you to create a wide variety of marks and effects. Hard ground produces crisp, clean lines, while soft ground can create softer, textured, crayon-like lines and impressions. Aquatint is way of creating tone on an etching plate. All these techniques can be used in conjunction to create unique, atmospheric prints.

You will experiment with etching onto zinc and aluminium plates using copper sulphate solution, a less toxic alternative to traditional nitric acid. The course is led with a hands-on approach from the start, with the opportunity to produce a good number of prints to take away with you. You will also learn about paper, inking and registration techniques. This is a great course for beginners and those who need a refresher, and can act as a lead-in to membership of WYPW so that you can continue to use and develop the techniques you have learnt.

Kate Desforges is a practicing artist who specialises in printmaking, and is also technician at WYPW.

“The tutor clearly explained every stage of the process in a comprehensive way. Her tips on different printing techniques were very useful and she was very encouraging throughout the whole course. The facilities were excellent, and I’m looking forward to etching some more plates in your workshop soon!”

All course prices include basic materials.

For more information visit http://www.wypw.org/shop/etching-weekend-november/