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Limerick Printmakers Build Your Skills: 8 Week Evening Silkscreen Course

October 17 @ 5:00 PM 8:00 PM

Limerick Printmakers 8-week Build Your Skills: Silkscreen course is an excellent way in which to develop fluency across the key aspects of silkscreen.

Participants are taught in a practical way, engaging with each step manually with full tutor support, while also learning through observing others in the group. Repetition across the weeks’ supports the development of new & more ambitious ideas as knowledge & confidence grows, alongside participant’s comfort level of working within the space. The course level is aimed at everyone from complete beginners & those who are eager to refresh or expand their existing silkscreen skills.

Silkscreen is a hugely popular print method as it’s so versatile. It’s a print method that can encompass so much – text, photographic imagery, sketches and mark–making, plus many layers of colour. Silkscreen produces clean, punchy images with a strong graphic quality and more refined, delicate images. Details stay crisp and sharp while colour pops off the page. LP’ evening screen course is ideal for those eager to get to grips with the basics of silkscreen in order to work towards creating their own printed t’s, totes, photographs, posters, flyers & artwork.

Step-by-Step Silkscreen will cover:

  • Image selection and conversion of imagery using common software
  • How to transfer images to screen & exposure of screens
  • Using equipment safely
  • Printing: Registration of image, ink & paper selection, printing technique,
  • trouble shooting, creating two colour prints
  • Cleaning/ maintenance of screens

All material costs are included in the course fee.

€225 – €300 concession
John's Square
Limerick, V94 FE06 Ireland
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