Cyanotype Printmaking from Photographs with Ellen Blair

Get hands-on with the art of screen printing in this full-day workshop! Learn how to design and print your own bold, two-layer poster using professional screen printing techniques. You’ll explore stencil creation, screen exposure, colour mixing, and printing gaining both creative and technical skills along the way.

By the end of the day, you’ll leave with your own vibrant screenprinted designs and a solid understanding of the process.

Join established printmaker and long-time member Ivan Frew on this weekend workshop in Collagraph Printing.

Collagraphs are the printed results from a ‘collage plate’. This course will focus on painterly printmaking techniques, perfect for creating expressive, textured images with a depth of colour and variety of mark-making.

you will learn how to create professional printmaking plates using safe, inexpensive and easily obtainable materials, printed with high quality printmaking inks and archival papers. Come prepared with your sketches and inspirational images, and recreate an original work or an edition of prints to give away as presents

This is an evening course over two Tuesdays 6-9pm

All materials are provided on the course

This full-day workshop introduces participants to creating bold, expressive 2–3 layer hand-drawn screenprints. Working from their own sketches or simple reference images, students will learn how to turn hand-drawn marks into layered artwork ready for screen exposure. We’ll explore beginner-friendly approach to separating drawings into graphic shapes and lines, combining freehand elements with hand-cut stencils to build dynamic compositions. The session covers exposing screens, setting up and using the press, and straightforward registration methods for producing clean multicolour prints. By the end of the day, each participant will create a small edition of their own screenprints on paper.

This beginner-friendly workshop introduces you to the beautiful and historic cyanotype process. Led by artist and printmaker Josephine McCormick, you’ll learn each stage of the technique through demonstrations, hands-on practice, and expert guidance.

Cyanotype is an early photographic process that produces striking blue prints. During the course, you’ll experiment with botanicals, stencils, flat objects, and high-contrast black-and-white photographs to create unique prints. All materials are provided, but you’re welcome to bring your own botanicals, lace, flat jewellery, or other objects to personalise your work. We’ll also ask you to send two black-and-white photographic images in advance.

By the end of the day, you’ll take home a collection of stunning cyanotype prints.

Details:

Photographic Cyanotype Course

Tutor - Josephine McCormick

Date - Saturday 26th September 11am - 5pm

Venue - Belfast Print Workshop (BPW), Cotton Court Building, 30 - 42 Waring Street, BT 1 2ED

Bpw gallery and studio located on the third floor of the Cotton Court Building

Lift access available

Press buzzer number 8 for intercom

To book, please visit,

bpw.org.uk/classes

All materials are provided on the course

Please bring along photographs and/or any other botanicals or lace type materials you would like to work with