Riso Printing Workshop

About

In these Thursday evening workshops, you will learn about and experiment with this fun and colourful medium, and develop your own multiple colour prints.

Riso printing is commonly used for making prints, comics, zines, posters, flyers, and cards. The riso printer looks a bit like a photocopier and uses rice paper stencils and drums of soy based ink to create mono-coloured layers, similar to screen printing. It is vibrant, distinctive and has lots of room for experimentation.

These sessions are aimed at beginner or early stage printers, though anyone who is interested in riso printing is welcome. Each session will involve an introduction for beginners, so if it is your first time please try to arrive at 6.

You will use materials like inks, pens, pencils and collage to build layered prints using lightboxes. You are welcome to bring in previous work of your own, or any collage materials you’d like to incorporate into your prints.

If it is your first time riso printing you will make a two-colour A4 print before moving on to a second piece which can be up to A3 and use more ink colours.

If you have printed before you can expect to use the printer once or twice in a workshop, depending on your project.

At Artbox London we have a one drum risograph printer and our ink colours are fluorescent pink, yellow, red, green, blue and black. We also have guillotines and long arm staplers for trimming and stapling.

There are 5 places in each workshop.

Artbox London is a registered charity and social enterprise supporting people with learning disabilities and autism to create, exhibit, sell and license their artwork. All profits raised from this workshop will go towards supporting the charity and our artists.

If you have any questions about these workshops, please email amy@artboxlondon.org