OVERVIEW

Tutor: Cheryl McCoy

Dates: Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th October 2025

Time: 10am to 4pm both days

Cost: $210 current NPW Members, $240 Non NPW members

Venue: Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Road, Adamstown

This course requires a minimum of 4 participants to proceed.

We often attend workshops & create prints that really open our minds to the printmaking process, but we don’t always know what the next step could or might be. We may feel that what we have created is okay but not yet complete or finished, or we might simply want to explore what else can be done with the plate.

In this workshop we will break the routine, embrace the unknown, and explore the possibilities. We will re-arrange, subvert, adjust or radically change the existing plate(s) or image(s). In most cases, you won’t actually need to change the plate, just change the way in which it is applied.

Discovering the unexpected in new and experimental ways to create new artworks can be challenging taking you outside your comfort zone.

What you will be supplied with:

§ Tarlatan

§ Brayers

§ Ink & applicators

§ 1 or 2 sheets of printmaking paper

§ Small range of chine colle papers (facilitator to supply)

§ Rice glue & spray adhesive

This workshop is suitable for adults/18 years old and above.

Materials: You need to bring your plates (collagraph, woodblock, lino, metal), any prints from these plates & any others you might like to work on, your art journal & pencil/pen

You will be supplied with: tarlatan, brayers, ink & applicators, 1 or 2 sheets of printmaking paper, small range of chine colle papers, rice glue & spray adhesive

There will be a short lunch break each day - please bring something with you. Tea and coffee are provided.

What students need to bring: See Materials above. Bring something for lunch, wear enclosed shoes and bring an apron or wear old clothes.

This course requires 4 participants to proceed.

Covid Safety: Due to NPW’s Covid Policy participants must sign in, wash or sanitise their hands immediately upon entering the workshop and maintain physical distancing whenever possible during class. If you have COVID-19 symptoms, have visited a COVID case location, or have been directed to isolate, you must not attend class.
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