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Cork Printmakers organises a year-round programme of evening and weekend printmaking workshops for both the beginner and experienced printmaker. Our courses range from etching, photo-etching, screen-printing, lithography to relief printing and are taught in a range of levels from beginner and refresher to intermediate and experienced.
If you would like to book a place on any of our courses please contact us by telephone: 021 432 2422 or email: courses@corkprintmakers.ie with your name, phone number and the course you wish to attend, and we will place a provisional booking. Alternatively, you can download our 
Adult Ed. Booking Winter 2010, complete and send to us with your deposit or full cost of the course. Once course payment has been received your full booking will be confirmed.
A 10% discount is available when booking more than one course.
Introduction to Waterbased Photo Screen-printing with Paul La Rocque
Learn how to produce screenprints from photographic or hand drawn imagery using stenciling, tru-grain, mono screenprint and photo-screenprint techniques. Participants will learn to prepare and process screens, print a small edition and clean and degrease screens after use. This course is suitable for complete beginners and also an opportunity for more experienced participants to expand their existing skills.
Dates: starting Tuesday 5 October
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: Tuesday evenings, 7.30 - 10.30pm
Availability: 6 Places
Cost: €340
Intermediate Waterbased Photo Screen-printing with Paul La Rocque
An opportunity to expand on existing screen-printing skills developed in our introductory course. Advanced methods of working will be explored including the use of darkroom facilities, true-grain, photoshop and four-colour separation printing.
Dates: starting Thursday 7 October
Suitability: Refreshers & Intermeditate
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: Thursday evenings, 7.30 - 10.30pm
Availability: 6 places
Cost: €340
Experiment with Etching with Dominic Fee
Take this opportunity to experiment with a range of etching techniques. You will learn about paper and plate preparation, hard and soft ground etching, spitbite and more. Etching has been employed by such great artists are Rembrandt, Goya, Piranesi and Picasso, try it for yourself and discover the fluidity of line and tonal possibilities this technique has to offer. This course is suitable for both beginners and those with some experience, who want to extend their skills.
Dates: starting Wednesday 20 October
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: 7 weeks
Day/Time: Wednesday Evenings, 7 - 10pm
Availability: 8 Places
Cost: €295
Portrait Drawing & Drypoint with Lorraine Cooke
The weekend course will begin with drawing from a life model. The work produced will be developed further through the printmaking technique of drypoint. With drypoint the image is incised or scratched onto a plate with a hard-pointed ‘needle’ of sharp metal, called a scribe. A residue or ‘burr’ is thrown up at the edges of the drawn line which holds the ink at printing stage forming the distinct drypoint line, which is dense and velvety. You will also learn about plate and paper preparation, the application of ink and create a small edition of two prints.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 4 & 5 September
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: Weekend
Time: 10am - 5pm
Availability: 8 Places
Cost: €190
Photo Etching with Riston Film with Tony McClure
This innovative, non-toxic technique, enables you to transfer autographic material, i.e. negatives, drawings, photocopies, onto a plate and print as an etching. No acid required.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 18 & 19 September
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: Weekend
Time: 10am - 5pm
Availability: 8 Places
Cost: €185
Intermediate Etching with Dominic Fee
You will explore the many possibilities that this process has to offer. Topics covered include plate preparation, hard & soft ground etching, sugarlift, aquatint, spitbite and other experimental resists. Printing techniques will be covered in depth and you will have the opportunity to print multiple layers and colours.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 9 & 10 October
Suitability: Refreshers & Intermediate
Duration: Weekend
Time: 10am - 5pm
Availability: 8 Places
Cost: €185
Introduction to Screen-printing on Fabric with Marianne Keating New Course
You will learn the basic process of screen-printing, from preparing your images, translating them into stencils, selecting colours, registration and printing. You will explore this diverse medium by printing on a variety of surfaces. 2 canvas bags are included, you can also bring along your own t-shirts / material.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 6 & 7 November
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: Weekend
Time: 10am - 5pm
Availability: 6 Places
Cost: €195
Photo Intaglio combined with Basic Bookbinding Techniques with Eimearjean McCormack
Photo intaglio is an innovative etching process, which allows the artist to produce photographic as well as more traditional hand-drawn artwork using photographic and digital positives, exposed to a metal plate treated with a photopolymer film. Once developed, it can be printed through an etching press without any form of acid biting of the plate. By the end of the week, you should have created a small series of prints, which you can use to turn into a one-of-a-kind artist book, using simple binding structures.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 27 & 28 November and 4 & 5 December
Suitability: Beginners & Refreshers
Duration: 2 consecutive weekends
Time: 10am - 5pm
Availability: 5 Places
Cost: €340
Lorraine Cooke Lorraine graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design. She is a practising artist, a member of Cork Printmakers since 2000 and teaches life drawing at St. John's Central College.
Dominic Fee
Dominic studied printmaking and ceramics at Galway RTC and holds a Fine Art Degree from Limerick School of Art & Design. He is a practicing artist and part-time lecturer at Galway-Mayo IT and Crawford College of Art & Design.
Marianne Keating
Marianne holds a degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Limerick School of Art & Design. Since graduating in 2002, she has gained extensive experience in teaching and gallery administration and has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland in solo and group shows.
Paul La Rocque
Paul is a practicing artist with a degree in Printmaking from Crawford College of Art & Design, an MA in Applied Arts from University of Ulster and an MSC in Multi-Media Design from UCC.
Tony McClure
Tony has a degree in printmaking from North Staffordshire University and a post graduate degree from Central St. Martins, London. He currently lectures full time at the Crawford College of Art & Design.
Eimearjean McCormack
Eimearjean graduated with a Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from G.M.I.T in 2004, where she was also awarded student of the year, two years in succession. She also holds an MA in printmaking from Camberwell College of Art, London. Her work has been widely exhibited and she currently works as a print technician at G.M.I.T, Cluain Mhuire Campus.
Important Notice - Course Payment
To secure your place on a course a 50% deposit must be paid. Remaining fees to be paid in full two weeks prior to commencement date.
If we cancel a course:
Cork Printmakers reserves the right to cancel any course in case of illness or should insufficient numbers enroll. Fees paid will be fully refunded and we will try to give as much notice as possible in this event.
If you cancel your place on a course:
If you cancel your registration at least 2 weeks prior to the workshop, you will receive a refund for the total fee paid minus 10%. Cancellations within 2 weeks of the workshop will result in a refund only if someone is found to fill your space.
What to bring
An apron or old clothes. Surgical gloves, pencils and brushes. Ideas for an image. Good quality high contrast photocopies for screen printing and photo etching courses. Participants will be notified of any specific items required prior to the courses.
Materials
All course fees cover material costs. Please note that materials for screen printing are more expensive.
Lunch Breaks
During weekend courses lunch is from 1pm-2pm. There are a number of restaurants and pubs in the vicinity open for business both days.
Please download the Adult Ed. Booking Winter 2010, complete your details and return to Cork Printmakers with your deposit to confirm your place on a course.
