Tuesday lino etching taster
£50
Come and get your hands inky and your creativity flowing in this mid-week taster session workshop which will introduce you to the technique of lino etching. With an extra hour in comparison to our 3 hour evening tasters, there’s even more time to get stuck in.
Lino etching is a relief printing process that uses caustic soda paste to etch into lino blocks. This technique can be a good addition to traditional cut lino. You will experiment with mark-making through the use of simple ‘resists’, a way of protecting areas of your block against the caustic. This can produce a wide range of tonal marks. Once your blocks are etched, you will be guided through inking and printing, with the opportunity to explore colour inking and multi-layered prints, producing 2-3 prints each on good quality paper to take home.