Summer Courses at Poole Painting Studio
Painting, printmaking and general art courses up to three days will be held between June and September 2011 with friendly tuition from a variety of expert tutors. You can click this Course Booking Form link to access the booking form.
Here is the 2011 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 7th – Monday 9th May | Peter Ursem | £135 |
| Sensory Painting ...details | Wednesday 29th June – Friday 1st July | Bonnie Brown | £135 |
| Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting ...details | Mondays 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th July and 1st and 8th August | No tutor | £25 per day or £120 for all 6 Mondays |
| Solar Etching for Beginners ...details | Thursday 7th July | Ruth Oaks | £45 |
| Surprised by Colour ...details | Thursday 28th July | Ruth Oaks | £45 |
| Monoprint, Collagraph and Carborundum ...details | 3rd & 4th August | Ruth Oaks | £90 |
| More Solar Etching ...details | Thursday 11th August | Ruth Oaks | £45 |
| Oil Painting Workshop ...details | Sat 13th and Sun 14th August | Teresa Lawton | £90 |
| Books at Bowling Green Alley ...details | 22nd, 24th & 25th August | Ruth Oaks | £135 |
| Body Mapping ...details | Thursday 1st September | Debbie Lee | £45 |
| Drawing Ideas ...details | Sat 3rd & Sun 4th September | Jem Main | £90 |
| Painterly Prints (Silkscreen Monoprints) ...details | Sat 10th & Sun 11th Sept | Martyn Brewster | £90 |
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 15% 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 occasional courses are held in Poole Painting Studio on Sundays with tutor Teresa Lawton. The following dates are planned: 6th March; 10th April; 15th May; 12th June; 3rd July; 25th September; 2nd October; 23rd October; 13th November. For information and booking contact Teresa Lawton at teresa_lawton@hotmail.com.
Friday Art Group is a group of artists who meet every Friday 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 consult www.freshtalentart.co.uk.
Poole Printmakers will run a “Printmaking for Beginners” course with main tutor Ruth Oaks on Saturdays 10am-1pm 29th January – 5th March, cost £114 for all 6 Saturday mornings. This course is now fully booked so due to demand the course will be repeated for a second 6 Saturday mornings 12th March – 16th April. See Poole Printmakers website or contact Ruth Oaks for information and booking.
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.
