Our lino workshop includes an introduction to lino printing, etching your own lino stamp and printing your stamp onto paper. This workshop is perfect for beginners and people who want to improve their practice in lino printing and work with lino in a different way.
For this session we will be designing an artwork inspired from a life model and transferring our artworks onto a lino block. You’ll leave with your own unique linocut stamp with prints of your stamp (in red ink) on cartridge paper.
You’ll also be able to reuse your lino block stamp after the class. It can be used to stamp T-shirts, tote bags, notebooks, gift cards- anything that has a thick surface so that the ink stays in place and doesn’t transfer through. Previously our students have used their prints from the class as gifts or as birthday cards 🥳
We will also give you aftercare instructions with links to all the materials that you’ll need to continue creating your own lino prints outside of our classes 🎨
INSTRUCTOR
Our lino instructor Nikolas (he/him) is a Polish artist based in London, specialising in gouache painting and various methods of relief printmaking. His work is largely informed by folk culture and its connection to animistic practice and aims to reach the viewer in an instinctive or emotional manner. Nikolas frequently features at makers markets across the UK and most recently has been accepted as a permanent member of the Greenwich Printmakers Gallery.
Please click here to see Nikolas' website and click here to follow Nikolas on instagram.
UPCOMING LIFE MODELS
March - Mauricia (she/her)
ALL MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED
These are: an A3 canvas board with as much paper as you want, drawing materials, two lino blocks per person (one for practice and one for your final piece), lino cutting tools, stamping rollers, red stamping ink & cartridge paper.
BLOCK RESERVATIONS
If you're booking as a group and want to be sat together, please email admin@redartclub.art with your names, group size and booking reference to reserve a block of chairs together.
ITINERARY
Please wear clothes that you do not mind getting messy, the lino ink can get a little sticky!
- 2pm Introduction to the class, outline of the session and introduction to materials
- 2:30pm life drawing practice, creating drawings with different techniques
- 3pm Break
- 3:15pm Transferring life drawing onto lino block
- 3:45pm Etching life drawing onto lino block
- 4:15 pm Break
- 4:30pm Printing linocut onto paper
WHO ARE WE?
Red Art Club was founded in April 2022 as a socialist art club.
Why ‘Red’ Art Club? Because of the socialist red… duh…
We create a space for absolutely anyone to explore and develop their artistic practice. Our classes are priced below the threshold of any other art class in London while still giving access to professional instructors and the best art materials. We also exclusively host our classes in arts institutions to help contribute to building the art community around London.
London is a lonely place and being an artist can be even lonelier. Red Art Club was set up to create a community that empowers each other to create beautiful art and a more beautiful, friendly, inclusive, welcoming future for society.
On top of lino printing workshops we run weekly life drawing classes and monthly sculpture classes at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham Common as well as monthly pop up art gallery socials.
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