Intro to: Photo Etching (using emulsion)

Description

Ideal for photographs or hand-drawn images; this specialist course offers hands on experience of etching images into steel plates prepared with specialist photo-etch emulsion. Photo-etch emulsion offers an alternative to the photo-tech film often used by print-makers and is a wonderful way of creating plates, however a good understanding of the etching process will be of benefit.

On the course you will learn: To select appropriate images to use in the process. Prepare steel plates. Apply the emulsion. Expose and develop the plates. Etch with Copper Sulphate solution, print and incorporate a second colour with roll up (roll over) technique.

Your tutor : Clare Phelan

Clare Phelan is an artist/print-maker who works directly with the ancestors of our computer age. In the making of her distinctive abstract prints, she uses found objects of nineteenth and twentieth century coding technology, including textile jacquards, musical box discs and IBM punch cards. Narratives around Man and Machine inform her practice.  

Winner of the Scott Creative Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2019, Clare was also shortlisted for the London Contemporary Art Prize 2019 and the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2017. She lives and works in the post industrial heartland of West Yorkshire, which provides constant inspiration for her work

Experience level

Intermediate level – perfect for those wishing to explore the creative possibilities of this process – a working knowledge of the etching process would be really useful.  

What’s included?

All course prices include basic materials such as inks, paper, tools and equipment. Other materials and printmaking papers will be available to buy during the course if you would like to try something a bit different, or take some materials home to try out.

What’s next?

After attending this course you can join our workshop as a member and continue to use our facilities to make and develop your own work. The sooner the better, as the longer you leave it the more you are likely to forget! If you join up within one month of attending the course you will receive a £5 discount. Find out more about the benefits of membership here.

Cancellation Policy:

• If you have to cancel:

If you are unable to attend your booked course, we may accept the fee paid as payment towards a place on the same or another course that takes place within the same financial year (running 1 April-31 March) following the originally booked event. Such a transfer will be on condition that we are informed in writing of your intentions four weeks prior to the originally booked event. Bookings can only be transferred once.

• 16-12 weeks before the course: 50 % of the fee will be retained by WYPW
• Less than 12 weeks before the course: 100% of the fee will be retained by WYPW
• Please note that full payment is required for non-attendance on a booking that has been transferred.

If you have any further questions about our cancellation policy, please contact us on info@wypw.org  

• If we have to cancel:

West Yorkshire Print Workshop reserves the right to cancel or re-arrange courses if there are insufficient participants enrolled to run a viable course or for other unforeseen circumstances. We will do our best to give those who have already enrolled at least one weeks’ notice of cancellation. In such circumstances you will be offered a free transfer to another course date or a full refund of fees paid.

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