Course Description
We will be exploring intaglio printmaking by working into Tetra Pack packaging items using a variety of pointed tools and a scalpel to produce a number of prints on printmaking paper.
With its layers of paperboard and aluminium foil, Tetra Pack packaging offers an immediacy and in recycling plant, milk, food and even pill cartons many exciting imaginative creative responses abound. The structure of the packaging can be the spark of an idea or integrated into a motif.
We will explore black or blue intaglio inking but can also add highlights of colour with layers of collaged paper via the process known as Chine Colle. This is a flexible and inexpensive technique that results in rich, textured prints.
This workshop is suitable for beginners, or any artists interested in expanding their print-making skills.
Materials required
Drusilla Cole
Having graduated from Wimbledon School of Art and London's Central School of Art, Drusilla taught as Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts, London (UAL) for over twenty-five years.
After taking early retirement, Drusilla moved to Bishops Castle, Shropshire, UK where she has extended her practice of printmaking by focusing on reduction Linocut printing.
Drusilla’s colourful Linocuts of swimming based scenes have become very popular and are exhibited locally and with selected galleries in the UK. They are available via her website and other digital outlets.
Pattern has long been an interest of Drusilla’s, and she has written several books on the subject.
These are: ‘1000 Patterns’, ‘Patterns’, ‘Textiles Now’ and ‘The Pattern Sourcebook’ and are widely available.
www.drusillacole..co.uk