2 Day Multi-plate Etching Workshop at our Ironbridge Studios
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Information: This2 Day Multi-plate Etching Workshop at our Ironbridge Studiosis a workshop that you must have some experience to come on. During the workshop you will learn about registration, line, tone, aquatint, toxic and no-toxic etchants. As well as printing processes including traditional and contemporary methods. You will be working with a full time specialist printmaker, in a beautifully designed studio, next to the river seven, where the industrial revolution began.
What we provide:We provide all the materials and the printing press.
What you need to provide:Lunch and any snacks, if the workshop is at our Ironbridge studios then we will provide teas and coffees.
Times: 10am till 4pm
Price:£280 per day for a 1 2 1 tailor made workshop
Equipment and Etching Printing In the studio there are usually around 4 Gunning Etching Presses,a largeGunning Hotplate, extractor fan units, one of our largeaquatint boxesand a dark room with a UV Light box. We have a brilliant wash down sink and glass work surfaces so you can ink up anywhere. We have a plasma cutter and metal polishers as well as brilliant printers and Mac computers with the use of photoshop and other software.
The studio space has been designed to house 4 printmakers giving them more than enough space to make and print plates the size of 20” x 30”. The hot plate,acid and water baths have been made to take plates of this size and the largest printing press in the studio is ourNo 4 Etching printing presswith a bed size of 35” x 60” making it easy to print any size.