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Mokulito Weekend

£130.00

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Location Leicester Print Workshop
Date & Time Saturday 16th - Sunday 17th November
10.00am - 4.00pm
Tutor  Kathryn Desforges

Join artist & printmaker Kathryn Desforges for a fun, hands-on weekend exploring the creative possibilities of this unique printmaking process.

Mokulito, or Plywood Lithography suits those who have an experimental approach to image-making, embracing and working with the natural properties of wood.

The grain of the wood will often show up in the background of prints, giving prints a unique characteristic. You will be guided through this fascinating technique by a tutor with an experimental approach, providing examples, instruction and advice throughout.

Course Structure

Day 1

Morning

Introductions, examples, demonstration of preparing, drawing and printing a plywood block. Everyone has a go at printing from the block.

Afternoon

Learners prepare, draw 2 – 3 plywood blocks, gum and leave overnight, ready for printing the next day.

Day 2

Morning

Quick recap on day 1 / Q&A

Learners print their first blocks

Afternoon

Learners print second blocks, experimenting with cutting back into the block, printing in colour, and trialling different papers.

End of day – Q&A, short crit of work produced, evaluation forms

About the Tutor

Kathryn Desforges is a freelance artist and printmaker based in Leeds, and also works as part time Print Studio Coordinator at West Yorkshire Print Workshop.

In 2013 she undertook the second Stone Lithography Fellowship at LPW – an inspirational year which enabled her to create a new body of work and led to a solo exhibition. After the fellowship, without access to the specialist equipment needed to continue with stone lithography, she decided to develop her work using alternative lithographic techniques, which utilised the equipment she already had.

Kathryn is particularly interested in the qualities of plywood as a medium for making prints, and has recently returned from an artist residency in Japan learning watercolour woodblock printing or 'Mokuhanga'.

Bookings

Online: You can book online here by credit / debit card or Paypal.

Telephone: You can pay by card over the phone during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm). Call us on 0116 251 4174.

In person: Call in to Leicester Print Workshop during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) to book and pay by card, cash or cheque.

Pre-course information: We will send you details of how to find us and what to bring with you when we process your booking. 

Concessions

Full-Print Members of Leicester Print Workshop are entitled to a 10% discount on our inhouse courses. Interested in joining LPW as a member? Click here for more information.