Intermediate to Advanced Etching (short course)
Short course
In London
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Weeks
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Start date
Different dates available
Following on from London Met's Introduction to Etching short course, this intermediate to advanced level course is designed to help you further pursue and develop your printmaking practice with one-to-one tutor support.
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Subjects
- Image
Course programme
While exploring of photographic and painterly techniques of rendering imagery to the plate, you'll extend your technical know-how and expand your understanding and critical appreciation of the possibilities available to you in etching.
The course aims to:
- reinforce, develop, supplement and hone your skills in etching
- explore painterly, autographic, and photographic techniques of plate making
- develop technical competence and a creative approach to etching techniques and materials
- engender a critical awareness of your own work and that of peers
- improve your awareness of relevant health and safety considerations and good working practice
- historical survey of prints and strategies towards practice
- exploring and combining negative and positive ways of image making both photographically and graphically by hand
- painterly and autographic mark-making methods and techniques in plate making such as sugar lift and carborundum
- photographic methods and techniques in plate making including photo image transfer and photo etching, colour separations and making positives both digitally and by hand
- preparing (photosensitising) the plate, exposing positives to the plate, developing the photographic image to the plate and etching and printing the plate(s)
- editioning and archiving prints
- have extended, explored and refined your technical ability, skills and creative thinking in etching and in your consideration of imagery and ideas
- accomplish a critical awareness of your own practice
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of all relevant health and safety considerations
Course content:
By the end of the course, you will:
This course is taught by Damian Grist.
Intermediate to Advanced Etching (short course)
