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Solar Plate with Nick Mobbs
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Solar Plate with Nick Mobbs
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Solar Plate with Nick Mobbs
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Solar Plate with Nick Mobbs
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Solar Plate with Nick Mobbs
Workshop
Solar Plate
18 Apr 2015
Event times
10.00am - 4.00pm
Cost of entry
£75 / £67.50 concessions
Address
- 50 St Stephen's Road
- Leicester
- LE2 1GG
- United Kingdom
Solar Plate is a photo-etching process using photopolymer plates that are developed and ‘etched’ in water. A simple process that captures very fine detail and can produce beautiful prints from photographic or drawn imagery.
About
During this day course you will learn how to apply your design by exposing and developing the plate, then ink and print your own photo etchings.
Course Structure:
Morning
- Introduction to LPW and the course.
- What is a Solar Plate? Principles of the process and examples.
- Preparing artwork for the process.
- Exposing and developing the plate. Demonstration and hands on practice.
- Printing. Demonstration and hands on practice.
Afternoon
- What is a halftone? Demonstration of applying a halftone in Photoshop.
- Self-directed work.
- Clean up and close of course.
About the Tutor – Nick Mobbs
Nick Mobbs is an East Midlands based artist whose practice combines photography and printmaking. He studied Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and now teaches Fine Art at the University of Nottingham and Printmaking at De Montfort University in Leicester.
Book online at: http://www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses/solar_plate_3/ .
