Skills & Upcycle (Intro to Lino Block Printing) with Tracey (Natimuk Wellness Project)

📍Location: Boardinghouse Studios, 117 Main Street, Natimuk

Workshop Description:

Curious about printmaking? In this 3 hour hands-on workshop, participants will explore the fundamentals of lino block printing. You’ll learn how to design, carve, and print your own custom image/patterns using lino tools and print inks. We’ll start off on paper and then if you’re keen you can try on fabric. This workshop is beginner-friendly and open to all levels of artistic experience.

What You’ll Learn:

🌞 Introduction to materials: lino blocks, carving tools, inks, brayers, barens, fabric,

paper

🌞 Safety tips and best carving practices

🌞 How to transfer your design to the lino block

🌞 Carving techniques for lines, textures, and details

🌞 Inking and printing

What’s Included:

All materials are provided, including lino blocks, carving tools, ink, brayers, and paper and practice fabric. If you want to experiment on an old piece of clothing or piece of fabric you love bring it along.

What to Bring:

🌞 An old shirt or apron to protect your clothing—it can get messy!

🌞 A preloved t-shirt, tote bag, teatowel to print on (natural fibres only—cotton, linen, or hemp are best; 100% cotton is the best) Light coloured.

🌞 Closed-toe shoes for safety in the studio

Tracey Skinner has a long background in the arts. Her early days were spent as a performer, as a vocalist and dancer but studied fashion, textiles and screenprint alongside this throughout most of her life both in London and Australia.

She has worked as a costume creator and operated independently as a textile artist running a studio and selling bespoke work in shops and markets intermittently over the years as well as running a variety of workshops. 

She loves all things textiles (her stash threatens all available storage space), she does collect vintage like it’s going out of style, has a penchant for chairs and is an absolute sucker for anything printed.

She now works as an arts administrator and producer and is the owner operator of the boardinghouse studios, which incorporates ArapilesFlow Movement Studio where she runs Pilates classes.

Art and Movement.

Follow Tracey:

@boardinghousestudios

@arapilesflow_movement

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The Natimuk Wellness Project is a program of wellness and nature-based activities curated by Melissa Edwards and hosted in the rural Victorian town of Natimuk.

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