Summer Courses at Poole Painting Studio
Short courses in painting, printmaking and general art subjects will be held between April and September 2013 will friendly tuition from a variety of expert tutors. You can click this Course Booking Form link to access the booking form.
Here is the 2013 programme.
We offer Discounts and Special Offers on many of the courses. See the details at the bottom of the page.
| Linocut Illustration ...details | Saturday 27th– Monday 29th April | Peter Ursem | £140 |
| Figure Drawing and Painting ...details | Mondays 13th and 20th May and 3rd, 17th and 24th June | No Tutor | £29 per day or £125 for all 5 Mondays |
| From Still Life to Abstraction ...details | Wednesday 15th – Thursday 16th May | Martyn Brewster | £92 |
| Simple Bookbinding ...details | Wednesday 26th June | Ruth Oaks | £46 |
| Exploring Drawing ...details | Saturdays 6th, 20th and 27th July | Rosalind Kunath | £46 for each Saturday or £132 for the whole 3-day course |
| Beyond the Veil ...details | Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and Friday 12th July | Bonnie Brown | £138 |
| An Introduction to Solar Etching ...details | Monday 22nd July | Ruth Oaks | £46 |
| Monoprint, Collagraph and Carborundum ...details | Wed 31st July & Thursday 1st August | Ruth Oaks | £92 |
| Portrait Drawing and Painting ...details | Mondays 5th, 12th and 19th August | No Tutor | £29 per day or £75 for all 3 Mondays |
| Oil Painting Workshop ...details | Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th August | Teresa Lawton | £92 |
| More Solar Etching ...details | Thursday 15th August | Ruth Oaks | £46 |
| Paper Story Scrolls ...details | Thursday 5th September | Debbie Lee | £46 |
| Wood Engraving for Beginners (and improvers) ...details | Saturday 7th September | Kath Littler | £46 |
| Painterly Prints (Silkscreen Monoprints) ...details | Wed 11th & Thur 12th September | Martyn Brewster | £92 |
Discounts and Special Offers For Courses
Special Offer: Book three 2-day or 3-day courses and get a one-day course FREE. (Offer not available for Portrait and Figure Drawing).
All courses offer 10% discount to members of Poole Printmakers.
Other Art Courses and Classes
Weekly art classes with tutor Abi Kremer are held in Poole Painting Studio. For information and booking contact Abi at abikremer@yahoo.co.uk.
Oil-Painting Workshops and other courses are held in Poole Painting Studio on occasional Sundays with tutor Teresa Lawton. The following dates are planned: 26th February; 17th and 18th March; 17th June; 8th July; 30th September; 28th October; 25th November. For information and booking contact Teresa Lawton at teresa_lawton@hotmail.com.
Friday Art Group is a group of artists who meet on Fridays 10am-1pm without a tutor to use the studio for their own painting or drawing session. For more information contact Ruth Oaks.
Fresh Talent artists meet every Friday 1.30-4pm for a session making art with group leaders Penny Frayn and Ruth Oaks. For more information contact Ruth Oaks
If you would like to run your own art class or group in Poole Painting Studio please contact Ruth Oaks about availablity and hire arrangements.
What is a Solar Etching?
Etching by the traditional process was used by artists from renaissance times to print multiple copies from a printing plate drawn by the artist. In brief: for traditional etching a copper plate is covered by an acid-resistant surface of bitumen and wax and the artist draws through this surface with a point to expose the metal. The plate is then put into acid which eats into the drawn lines to create grooves and textures in the plate. The waxy surface is then cleaned off and the plate printed by the intaglio method. This means that ink is wiped on to the plate and then wiped away to leave ink in the grooves and textures of the plate but remove it from the surfaces. The plate is then put through a very high pressure press with damp paper which squeezes the ink out of the textures of the plate on to the paper.
Etching is valued by artists as a way of creating rich velvety marks and tones, allowing for expression both in drawing on the plate and printing from it. Solar etchings are printed in the same way as traditional etchings so the same effects can be created but there is also scope for a wide variety of other forms of expression.
Solar Etching is a technique relatively recently adopted by artists. (It was originally used industrially for printed circuits and for printing on ceramics.) It provides an alternative method for making etching plates which are then printed in the traditional way. As a photographic method solar etching allows the design to be applied to the plate in a variety of ways, including the transfer of a previously made drawing or photograph with all its detail and range of tone.
For artists the most usual use of the process is in intaglio printing. For this the plate is printed by hand wiping and put through a press in the traditional way, similar to that by which Rembrandt would have printed his etchings, allowing for further creative expression with tone and sometimes colour of ink. It is possible to print in relief from a solar plate by rolling ink on to the surface. It is also possible to print both ways at once by wiping a plate and then surface-rolling before putting it in the press.
A blend of new and traditional methods, solar etching involves no acid, only ultra-violet light and water, in the making of the plate and is therefore a very safe etching process.
