Gelli Plate Printing
Learn the skills to confidently print your own designs with gelatin plates. You'll take home your own commercial gelli plate 8 x 10 inches, as well as the ones you create during the workshop.
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Sat 30 NovFull weekend, Sat & Sun 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland. Ursula Utting, Ashley Ruth Stirling
- $225.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Sat 30 Nov 10:00 - Sat 30 Nov 16:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Sun 01 Dec 10:00 - Sun 01 Dec 16:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.
Description
By the time you finish this workshop you will be equipped with the skills to confidently print your own designs with gelatin plates. Your tutors will demonstrate step-by-step and teach a range of approaches that you can take to this exciting creative process … you will be able to take those learnings and adapt and develop your own style and approach, creating your own gel plate prints. Join us for this journey around creativity with an emphasis on personal aesthetic, pattern and colour.
Course outline
The course will commence with a focus on finding our own design style using a brief overview of art and design, followed by warm up creative exercises. 20 minutes or so will be spent on whakawhanaungatanga – getting to know each other with an emphasis on our own artistic point of view or creativity goals. This is partly so that the tutors can get to know your aesthetic leaning and ensure your enjoyment of the class.
We will learn and have a go with the following techniques:
- Creating atmosphere with layers (mountain range technique)
- Painterly techniques in gelatin plate printing
- Magazine resist technique (Pop art)
- Honour your past – create an art piece from an old photograph
- Creating texture using stencils, stamps, posca pens and found objects
- Foraging – what we can do with leaves, petals and the natural world
We are working towards one final art piece we can plan and complete and be proud of to take home as a keepsake of what we have learned.
The second day of this two-day programme extends these learnings, and we will also make our own gel-plates at the end of day one, so that they can set overnight and we can use them on day two. This gives participants confidence in doing this at home later and an opportunity to create a large or unusual-shaped plate to use.
Expected learning outcomes
- Know how to gelli print!
- Have a recipe and knowledge of how to make your own plates
- Gain insight into your design style and hone your ideas – loads of inspiration provided
- Experience with techniques such as image resist, layering, stamping etc
Who should attend?
This course will be enjoyed by individuals with a confident eye for colour art and design, as well as complete beginners for whom exploring creativity is a new interest. A positive uplifting and encouraging atmosphere is fostered in this class.
What to bring
Bring your lunch each day. Most materials are provided for the course but we would like students to bring black and white photocopies of special photographs (ones that you are interested in honouring). These could be very old photographs of your tupuna/ancestors or an important place to you, or a church, marae or building that is important to you. It could also be a photograph of yourself from your childhood. Or, a photo of your pet! If you can't easily print your images, please email them to the office and we will arrange this (info@selwyncomed.school.nz). Please do not bring the originals on the day because we will not be able to utilise originals for our project.
Also bring some magazines, wrapping paper, wallpaper or any other printed material that you might be able to work with or be willing to share with others. You can bring foliage, flowers or leaves you’d like to work with if that is exciting to you. There will also be some supplied on the day.
In preparation: please have a think about a maunga/mountain that you will use as inspiration for the layering technique. We will have a go at making an image of a mountain range – it can be fictional but a mountain that means something to you would be great!
About your tutors
Ursula: Gelatin plate printing is a wonderful way to play with printmaking at home with relative ease. The softness of the gelatin plates allows you to capture and print great detail and the results are impressive. With a background in design and an obsession with colour, gel plate printing allows me to play with these elements!
Ashley Ruth: Ashley Ruth lives and breathes art, taking her travel-size watercolour and mixed media supplies with her everywhere she goes - no exaggeration! She has developed her own unique style of watercolour and illustration and creates art every day, primarily through visual journaling. A gifted teacher, she will guide you through the creative process in an enabling and encouraging manner so therapeutic you won't want class to end.
