Printmaking Workshops Archives

Jelly Print Demonstration Plymouth University Students

January 30, 2017 by Jo Larsen Burnett

I had a fun session demonstrating to Plymouth University Students and technical staff a few weeks ago. It was a small group but with assessments going on at the moment I quite understood the group size!. With students coming from many different courses it was interesting to see the different approaches. Sometimes its difficult for people to be confident about an approach which requires overprinting. However, once they got going they began to see how this created a rich print with depth. even the letterpress technician Paul got a few layers into his print. We all enjoyed he session though and I hope they took something from it apart from the recipe!

Jelly printing workshop with Plymouth University Students

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Plymouth University students at jelly print demonstration by JoLB

Teacher Training workshop

October 24, 2016 by Jo Larsen Burnett

Teacher Training Workshop day at Torbridge, Estover.

Workshop as a Teacher Training Activity held at Torbridge Community High School in Estover Plymouth. An event, which I might say, was fantastically orgainised by Antonia Texidor for Art Teachers and Heads of Departments in the Locale. Im blogging on this site because my drawing Together site is still not rebuilt. However from a printmakers point of view its good to talk here too!

I have to say I had a great day and I think participants did too. I only hope that they didn’t get as dirty as me…

Oh!: it seems they may have done!

Aside from grubby fingers I think everyone took something away from the day. There were a lot of very interesting approaches and I will blog about some of these separately. Each participant made a number of prints trying out both silicone and the Jelly plates. The great thing about working in a group is seeing other peoples ideas and letting these ideas feed into your own work. I can highly recommend having a workshop with teachers because they all became very experimental and (to be honest) I cant wait to try out some of these new ideas myself!… So thanks guys.

Here are a few shots of the day – I especially like the “I Did This” photos – Check back again for some insights into the days printmaking approaches by some inventive and very fun people.

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A selection of shots of the participants in action at Torbridge Teacher Training Day this October.

Stamping Workshop for the Brentor Mistletoe Fair

October 24, 2016 by Jo Larsen Burnett

Stamps of the village feature – The Church On The Hill – St Michael De La Rupe – Brentor

The lovely Ladies who organise and run this annual craft fair day in the Brentor Village Hall designed their own stamp recreating the architects decal (with their permission) which adorns the front door of our well used village hall.

I organised the stamps to be made for them through Nina Crafts an efficient and very helpful service who will create a stamp to your own design. For an A4 sheet they are £25.00; I think this is exceptional value.

On a breif visit to their committee meeting I showed them how to cut out the stamps and attach them to a piece of wood using craft foam as a pneumatic between the stamp and the wooden plate. This can help considerably to produce a consistent outcome.

As they will be using the stamps for an Apron Pocket this year, beautifully sewed and designed by Sue we practiced on some off cut fabric. All the ladies ‘had a go” and would be able to create the pocket designs. However, I think that when it can down to practical skills and the crafts already being designed by others the task of printing onto the pockets has fallen to by friend Helen. I hope she has fun doing this. Looking forward to seeing the aprons at the Mistletoe Fair.

: JoLB (me) popped in to show the ladies of the Brentor Mistletoe Fair how to use their new set of stamps