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Dry Point Printing + Artists Books + Background Techniques with Peta Lloyd

August 3, 2024 @ 8:30 am - August 4, 2024 @ 3:00 pm UTC+10

$102
Dry Point Printing, artists books and background techniques with Peta Lloyd. 2 Day workshop 2024

2-Day Workshop
“Sense of Place”

with Peta Lloyd

Suitable for beginners to advanced printmakers

❖ Dry point Printing
❖ Artists Books
❖ Background Techniques
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Cost $102 (includes $25 for materials) – payment info at bottom

Cost Breakdown: $75 to Kingaroy Art Gallery before the day & $27 Paid to Tutor on the day

Everyone loves an intriguing story, a narrative of your own creating. Enjoy transforming textile surfaces such as paper, and fabrics, old* and new, with your own unique symbols and marks using acrylic paints, drawing and printmaking inks, crayons, and oil pastels, explore **paper dry point etching and mono printing from natural and hand cut stencils, create patterns using simple printing blocks. Finally, combine your papers and textiles to create a unique ***artist’s book.

An integral part of this workshop will be to explore the narratives and sense of place within your works.

*Used textiles contain their own history and energy, as you intertwine old with new you create another layer of history, with an alternate story, a new narrative.

**A dry point paper plate is a thin piece of cardboard; one side has a smooth white surface.

*** “Artists’ Books: not books about art: not books about artists: not even books illustrated by artists (although they can be). Artists’ Books are artworks that use the form or the concept of a book. Free from the constraints of traditional publishing, they are about nothing so much as themselves.” – Helen Cole, State Library Queensland.

Day One

Explore the art form of artist’s books* through a hands-on experience with a selection of Peta’s artists books.  Themes and structures, materials, and tools will be explored and discussed.

Be guided by Peta to create a suite of sample book forms: one sheet folded books – caterpillar and magic books, concertina book, scroll book and Japanese side bound book.

Dive into creating background surfaces for your papers and textiles, such as staining, using resists, and stamping from your own unique handheld block.  Your dry point paper plate etchings combined with mono printing, will be printed over these backgrounds.

You will create your dry point etchings using the humble printmakers paper plate as well as Tetra Pac and suitable cardboard packaging.

Your etchings will contain fine delicate lines and bold tonal areas. You will experiment with creating marks and texture using a variety of tools such as: cutting knives, etching needles, awls, wire brushes, sandpaper and even a ballpoint pen!  You will be guided through the techniques of cutting into the surface of the plate and peeling away the top layer.  Textured and smooth tapes can be applied to create further lines and textures.

You will learn how to ink and print the plates as intaglio prints using an etching press.

Day Two

On the second day, you will complete your printing in the first part of the morning, leaving the remainder of the day to combine your Prints, papers, and textiles to create an artist’s book; these will be folded, stitched and collaged together in the structure of your choice. Found objects may also be incorporated within your artist’s book.

Peta Lloyd

Peta Lloyd is a visual artist incorporating printmaking, assemblage, encaustic, textiles, and collage, into her works.

Cost $102 (includes $25 for materials)

Payments to:
Kingaroy Arts Team
BSB 064-418
ACCOUNT 10327340

Details

Start:
August 3, 2024 @ 8:30 am UTC+10
End:
August 4, 2024 @ 3:00 pm UTC+10
Cost:
$102
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Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery
Phone
0488 793 419
Email
kingaroy.art@southburnett.qld.gov.au
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Venue

1913 Chambers
6-2 Edward Street (behind the gallery)
Kingaroy, QLD 4610 Australia
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Phone
0488 793 419

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