Tutor: Catherine Tempest

Dates: January 2, 9,16, 23 and 30, 2021

Time: 5pm - 8.30pm

Cost: $360 Non Members | $340 current NPW Members

Enquiries: cath.t.tempest@gmail.com

Venue: Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Road, Adamstown (opp. playing fields)

This course runs for five Saturday evenings, starting 2 January 2021.

Different approaches will be considered to suggest alternative ways of creating a screen printed image on paper. The class does not cover printing on fabric. The first night will be spent watching the tutor demonstrating the basics, providing examples of different techniques and discussing design considerations.

You can use high contrast black and white drawings, collages, digital images, photocopies, flat opaque objects or cut/torn paper to create a stencil for screenprinting.

Your compositions may take the form of a freeform mono print, blended rainbow gradient and vivid swirls of colour, a key image with spots of colour, layers of related images and elements, or a combination of these approaches.

Using whatever combination of techniques suits you best you will learn to print, register accurately for editioning, process screens, mix inks and expose images on our UV box.⠀

This is a small class and all materials are provided.

Student numbers are limited to enable distancing. Due to Coronavirus restrictions, if you are sick during the five week course, you must not attend class. Unfortunately, individual sessions are non refundable and non transferable.

Wear old clothes or an apron and closed-in shoes for safety.

ABOUT THE TUTORCatherine Tempest has a Bachelor of Art Theory UNSW Sydney, and an Advanced Diploma Visual Art majoring in printmaking and photography Newcastle Art School.