Masterclass photoetching

City Lit

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course is about discovering, through exploration, ways of expanding your printmaking practice to incorporate photographic techniques.

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Location

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

- Apply tone to a photo plate etching
- Manipulate an image to be made into a photo plate
- develop, etch and print a photo etching
- have an understanding of different methods of creating a photo plate.

Basic materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring any extra or special materials.

If you would like to buy art materials for your personal use outside of the course, City Lit students receive 10% discount off everything* from Cass Art, the UK's leading art supplies retailer. Your tutor will advise you on what you should buy. You will need to show your enrolment receipt in-store to receive your discount. Visit the Charing Cross shop at 13 Charing Cross Road WC2H 0EP or find your local shop at *Terms and conditions apply, visit

Demonstration and practical application. One to one and group discussion.

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Subjects

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  • Art

Course programme

Using industry standard materials we will be creating etching and or photo-etching metal plates from your personal source imagery
Exploring the possibilities of colour inking combined with collage (Chine collé)
Applying basic image adjustments digitally to artwork specifically for the purposes of photo-etching
Creating a positive for photo-etching to make a photo-etching plate
Methods of creating continuous tone in etching (traditional aquatint) and photo-etching (digital faux aquatint)
Developing and etching an image onto metal photo-plate.

Additional information

You may wish to continue exploring the use of photographic processes in traditional printmaking perhaps working on a personal project during the drop in Print Club on Friday evenings (VS302), Saturday Studio (VS991) or perhaps by joining the INTENSIVE: Etching and Photoetching- all levels (VS019) General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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