COURSE DETAILS
Ancient stones and landscapes will be our inspiration to create a panoramic folded book form or scroll using monoprinting and batik. We will explore monoprinting to create shapes and marks of forms in the landscape then add hot wax as a resist and add colour to build up layers with drawing inks. We will explore mark making with the hot wax using traditional and nontraditional tools, lots of fun!
To create a monoprint, acrylic paint with an added extender is rolled thinly onto a sheet of rigid plastic, fabric or paper is lightly placed on to the ink and then by drawing on the fabric this allows the pressure of the pencil to pick up ink from the reverse. We will also explore different ways of transferring the paint onto the fabric by drawing into the paint first. We will experiment making different marks on fabric and paper before creating a more considered image on fabric. A number of monoprints will be made on fabric and tissue paper so you will have pieces to take home to develop further as well.
On day two we will add hot wax as a resist then use drawing inks to add colour to the monoprints. The books may consist of individual pages or a panoramic composition.
We will concentrate on creating our monoprinted batik landscape books or scrolls but if students wish to back them with plain fabric that is more likely to be completed at home, these will be suitable for adding to with hand or machine stitch at a later date.
Materials for Students to Bring:
PLEASE NOTE:
Materials Cost to Students is included in the price. Jenny is very generous in all that she supplies in order for students to have the right materials.
Jenny will have some small pieces of fabric for sampling as well.