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NOTE: If you are booking on behalf of one or more persons, please include all attendees names in the Order Notes section at checkout.
Learn how to plan, create and print using recycled Tetrapaks with our guest tutor Harriet Merry.
What will this course cover?
- Preparing the Tetrapak
- Practise mark making – how to loosen up
- Choosing drawings from sketches or photographs
- Planning and tracing the drawing and transferring it to your Tetrapak
- Creating marks using drypoint and carving techniques
- Inking up
- Creating prints using a press but also with wooden spoon or barren which can be done at home
About the Tutor:
Harriet is an illustrator who started printmaking as a way to develop sketchbook themes taken from her daily observational drawing. As well as working with traditional methods such as etching and aquatint, she is currently exploring new areas of printmaking such as tetrapak and kitchen lithography which suit her fascination with daily life and the mundane.
HOW TO BOOK:
To book this course, please select the date and pricing option that is most suitable for you and continue your order through to checkout. Payment can be made via Card or PayPal. We will email you to confirm your booking.
If you would like to book a tailored course, please contact us to confirm your selected date(s) before booking.
PRICING OPTIONS:
Regular
Our regular rate is applicable if you are currently in full or part time employment.
Concessionary / Student
Our concessionary rate is applicable if you are aged 60 years or older, aged 13 years or younger, and/or in receipt of any state benefits. If you are aged 13+ years, and in full-time education or currently studying towards an undergraduate or post-graduate degree.
GD Member
Members of the studio receive a 10% discount on all of our courses. Become a member?
HOW TO PREPARE:
All materials and notes are included in the price of this workshop. No previous experience of printmaking is required unless noted in the course details. Young printmakers are encouraged, aged 13+.
For details about what to prepare before for your course begins, please read through our How to Prepare page.
CANCELLATIONS:
Green Door requires 5 working days notice of cancellation of a booked course/workshop. Any advance payment made in excess of the non-refundable deposit (50% of the course price) will be returned unless you are able to make arrangements with Green Door Printmaking Studio to reschedule your course booking.
As a courtesy it is always preferable to notify us of your cancellation even if it falls within the cancellation notice period.
Green Door reserves the right to postpone any course bookings until future notice. We will always keep you informed should any changes to your course booking arise.
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