Course Description
In this workshop you will explore making, and embellishing a landscape monoprint, to create a painterly and fresh effect. These prints can look curiously like oil paintings when complete.
We will be starting with making a double monotype, which will be worked into with chalk pastels. This can produce impressionistic and delicate results that combine with the velvety marks and tones of monotypes.
We will use the Direct Drawing method, sometimes called trace monoprinting or monotype. It gives a beautiful and delicate, or sometimes beautiful and bold, image – dependent on the paper and/or the pressure used.

It can easily be done at home – there is no need for a press or specialist equipment. The experimentation and freedom of “grazing” the pastels, and adding colour is very low stakes and high rewards.
You will be in good company – as Degas used this way of working for many of his pieces. You will need to bring some landscape reference photos that inspire you.

What you will learn
How to make the double monotypes
How to assemble and use the prints
How to develop the piece with pastel

Important information for workshop participants

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. If you are attending a full day workshop there will be time to go into Ulverston for lunch, or you may like to bring a packed lunch with you. On Saturday and Sunday the Printfest Vintage Bakes café at The Coro will be open for lunches and other refreshments.

Please bring an apron or wear old clothes – printmaking can be messy!

Before attending it would be helpful to have a think about what images you would like to produce and bring along some sources of inspiration. If you are struggling to think of ideas your tutor will be able to help and will have some source materials you can use at the workshop.

You are also entitled to free entry to the main exhibition (Saturday & Sunday).

Your Tutor:
Alex has been a painter printmaker since studying Fine Art at Leeds University where her final show was mainly etching. Although her practice encompasses a wide variety of media, printmaking remains her first love, as she enjoys the magic of the mechanical process that culminates in the ‘reveal’. Her work is focussed on landscape, and the horse. She finds the possibilities in these as a metaphor for the human condition and our relationship with our environment – but also because they are beautiful in their endless forms.

www.alexjakobwhitworth.co.uk
@alexjw28arts

Alex Jakob-Whitworth is a member of Cumbria Printmakers
www.cumbriaprintmakers.co.uk