Printmaking at Home: Wood-cut, Lino-cut and Monotype

This course will allow you to explore the potential of printmaking from your own home.

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Printmaking at Home: Wood-cut, Lino-cut and Monotype Image

Course details

Dates

24 October – 21 November 2025

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£287.00 Concessions available

Location

Online

Tutors

Jake Garfield

Overview

Printmakers have always been resourceful. Whether we are using the bitumen designed for laying roads, linoleum designed for flooring or photo-emulsion designed for circuit boards, we have always adapted to the circumstances and technologies of our time to make art. For inspiration, we will be drawing from a rich history of relief printmaking from Hokusai and Dürer up to ambitious contemporary works by Christianne Baumgartner and Grayson Perry.

This course will focus on monotype, and relief printing using linoleum and wood. You will be given the chance to explore layering of colour in monotypes and relief through the ‘reduction-cut’ and multiple-block printing processes. We will be using oil-based but water-soluble inks, allowing for high quality results while remaining solvent-free and green. There will be opportunities for tutor demonstrations, group discussion/enquiry, one-on-one tutorials and ‘breakout rooms’, in which students will be connected in mini-groups for activities and critiques.

Who is it for

Beginners welcome. No experience of drawing required.

What’s provided

For our online courses, you will receive prior to the start of the course access to our Padlet Noticeboard where you will be given course details, material lists and some references, as well as our Padlet Gallery where you will be able to upload and comment on work created during the course.

What to bring

For our online courses, you must provide your own materials. Feel free to use any that you would like to during classes, however other suggestions may be posted on the Padlet noticeboard throughout the course by tutors. This is a suggested list of what may be needed:

Drawing Pencils
Conté Crayons
Pastels
Ink Pens
Coloured Pencils
Putty and Hard Erasers
Pencil Sharpener
Sketchbook

Concessions

We offer a range of discounts. To apply, email admin@royaldrawingschool.org with the required proof. Please wait for confirmation before booking.

Available discounts

NHS Staff: 20%
Send a photo of your NHS staff badge.
Full-time Fine Art BA Students: 75%
Students on design or applied arts degrees may also be eligible. Send your student ID and proof of enrolment.
Primary and Secondary Art Teachers: 50%
Send a letter from your headteacher or head of art department.
Jobseekers: 50%
Send a recent DWP or JobCentre Plus letter confirming you receive Jobseeker’s Allowance or Universal Credit (if out of work). Appointment booklets are not accepted.
Disability Benefit Recipients: 50%
Send proof that you currently receive this allowance.
Tower Hamlets and Hackney Residents: 25% (Shoreditch courses only)
Send a copy of your most recent council tax bill.
Tower Hamlets and Hackney Businesses: 25% (Shoreditch courses only)
Send a staff ID, business card or a letter from your line manager.
Over 60s: 10%
Send a photo ID as proof of age.
Alumni: Postgraduate Programme or Foundation Year: 50% off short courses
Online Drawing Development Year: 50% off online short courses

Before you apply

Documents must be dated within the last 6 months (or 12 months for council tax)
Your name must be clearly visible
Accepted file formats: PDF, JPG, DOC or DOCX

All our courses are subsidised.

Tutors

Jake Garfield

Tutor, Drawing Year Alumni, 2013