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Course Location: Bluecoat Screen Print Studio

Experience Level: Beginner 

This course will run Thursday evenings at 5:30pm – 7:45pm for 4 consecutive weeks.

The Art of Screen printing is a comprehensive course suitable for beginners and intermediate printers alike. On completion you will be a knowledgeable, confident screen printer and able to hire our printmaking facilities to use.

The course schedule is as follows:

• Week 1:  You will learn the fundamentals of screen printing and create experimental prints using hand cut paper stencils and monoprinting techniques.
• Week 2: You will learn how to clean a screen and prepare it for printing, as well as coating your screen in UV sensitive emulsion and exposing it to create a permanent stencil for printing. You will then use your exposed screen to create a set of prints.
• Week 3: This week will teach you all about registration and how to use multiple screens to create multi-layered prints.
• Week 4: Your final week will teach you how to print onto fabric, utilising all you've learnt to understand the subtle changes needed in the screen printing process to create great fabric prints.

What’s Included?

All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Our studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction to book into our Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.

Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?

All weeks: Feel free to bring along reference images to each session.

Week 2/3: If you would like to prepare an image to bring with you to print from you can use:

Inkjet/Laser Print: Please make sure it is either in BLACK INK ONLY on acetate/transparency

Hand drawn image: Please use opaque ink pens (we use black posca markers) on tracing paper or acetate/transparency for your image to expose correctly.

Week 4: We do provide tote bags for this session, but feel free to bring fabric or fabric items to experiment on with fabric printing.

What happens after the course?

After you’ve completed your course, you are free to book into our open access printmaking studios. Your course acts as an induction but if you feel like you would benefit from more info about our studios before booking a session we offer free health & safety inductions, just email: ivy.m@thebluecoat.org.uk

Got any questions?

If you have any questions about the course or our studios, please email: Ivy.m@thebluecoat.org.uk

Accessibility:

• The Bluecoat cafe and building floors are fully accessible for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility. 
• The print studios are not adapted for wheelchair users. If you would like to do a print workshop with us but are unsure about accessibility, please contact the Print Studio manager at: ivy.m@thebluecoat.org.uk

(Attendees must be 18+)

Location

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Ivy McIntyre
The Bluecoat , 8 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX

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