Sense of Place with Peta Lloyd

Dry point Printing + Artists Books + Mark Making

Everyone loves an intriguing story, a narrative of your own creating. Enjoy transforming textile surfaces, paper and fabrics with your own unique symbols and marks using acrylic paints, drawing and printmaking inks, crayons, and oil pastels. Create handmade brushes which will be used to make a variety of marks with drawing inks. Explore dry point and Tetra Pak etchings to create prints, make a simple printing block to use as a stamp on paper and textiles and learn the

Japanese method of ‘momigami’ to create a fabric like material from magazine pages.

Finally, combine your printed papers and textiles to create a unique artist’s book.

Hand stitching, collage and found objects may be incorporated within your artist’s book.

An integral part of this workshop will be to explore the narratives and sense of place within your works, whether this be a real, imagined or emotional place.

This workshop is suitable for beginners and more advanced printmakers.

Day One 8.30am to 4pm

Day Two 8.30am to 4pm

Please arrive 15 minutes prior to start time.

You will need to bring:

Sketchbook

1 x cutting knife (finger knife, surgical knife, scalpel) – Peta will have a few to share

self-healing cutting mat

steel ruler - Printbank has a few to share if needed

1 x ballpoint pen

1 x HB pencil

1 x pair of scissors used to cut paper, fabric, masking tape

Small bottle of pva glue

1 x glue brush and water container for brush

2 x Book binding needles (Size 18 Chenille Needles can be purchased from needleworx or spotlight)

Rags – bring a handful

4 x A4 cartridge paper for each artist or similar for proofing

5 x A3 cartridge paper for sample books

Extra x 4 sheets, A3 cartridge paper for mark making

2 x A4ish sheets of Hosho or Rice paper for each artist for printing - 2 sheets available to purchase from Printbank at cost of $5 for 2 sheets

2 x sheets of printmakers paper recommend approx 250gsm 56 x 76cm ie Fabriano Rosapina Canson Edition or similar for each artist. 2 x sheets of Canson Edition 250gsm 56 x 76cm available to purchase from Printbank at cost of $14 for 2 sheets, white in colour.

3 or 4 A4 approx pieces of Calico, washed and ironed or smooth cotton fabric eg on old, washed cotton sheet for printing/mark making – bring more if you’re keen to use fabric for your book/s

Cheap soft toothbrush and small cardboard pieces for applying inks

Disposable gloves

Participants may have other printmaking papers in their own studio stock which they are welcome to bring or a different brand and a bigger amount of paper if you think you will need it, a smooth printmaking paper around 220 - 290 gsm works well for drypoint paper and Tetra Pak plates.

When participating in the workshop wear apron or old clothes, closed in shoes must be worn in the studio with long hair tied back and no flowing scarves

Bring an item from your home or studio as inspiration for your theme or a couple of ideas for the images you’d like to create - keep these simple if you’re new to printmaking.

PLEASE BRING A PLATE TO SHARE FOR LUNCH, morning tea will be provided.