Gel Plate Printing Next Steps - Doodle and Pattern Book - Burton Joyce Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 11 November - 9 December 2024
• Sessions: Mondays: 1pm - 3pm
• No. sessions: 5
• Venue: Burton Joyce Library, Nottingham
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 8
• Cost: FREE - £35

Bring along your gel prints and learn how to create a doodle and pattern altered book. Don’t worry if you haven’t any gel prints, we shall create some in the first session.

Over the duration of five weeks, you will be shown how to recycle a hard-backed book and change it into a book of colourful patterns and doodles. You will be shown a variety of mediums and different techniques to use with your gel prints. We shall be learning about surface pattern design, patterns and doodling and using a combination of these you will be creating your own patterns within your altered book.

By the end of the course, you will: have explored and learnt many different pattern and doodling techniques to create a beautiful book of your own designs and you will become confident with experimenting with colour, shapes and pattern.

Please bring:

• Your gel prints from the previous course if you have any.
• An apron, big shirt or old clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on.
• A set of acrylic paints but essentially basic colours yellow, red, blue, black and white. Can be bought from The Range, The Works, B&M, Hobbycraft, Amazon.
• A pack of baby wipes.
• A gel plate and brayer if you have one, otherwise one will be provided.
• A set of coloured Sharpie pens or felt tips.
• White gel pens.
• Black Sharpie pen and black fine liner pens (size 0.5 and up if possible).
• A notebook or sketchbook and pen/pencil.
• Glue sticks
• Scissors

Suggested Reading for the course:

• Doodling Is Awesome: Beginner's Guide: How To Doodle? (designhill.com)

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