(This class has different price options for those affected by the pandemic, click the register button above and see the different options).
What’s it all about?
This is the perfect class for you if you have a lovely fabric item that is perhaps just a bit too plain and needing to be personalised or customised. This can apply to clothing, fabric and tote bags, super hero capes, kids tents, curtains, tablecloths, napkins and so much more!
This class will teach you the basics process for textile printing and how to produce your own designs from a range of affordable and easy to source materials.
What will we cover?
- How to design and compose your image
- Demonstrate how to use your materials at hand to print onto the fabric
- Try out vegetable cutting for hand printing
In this class we will learn how to turn objects from your house into stamps and how to creates beautiful prints from it. Go on a scavenger hunt around your house to find objects you think you can print with, and we’ll test them out during the class!
Even if you can’t draw, this printmaking technique will allow you to achieve a cool and funky design and learn a transferable skill.
What will you need?
- Pencil for designing
- Cutting tool (eg. box-cutter, blade, knife)
- Paint and tools
- Water based paint, ideally gouache
- Brushes and/or sponges to apply the paint
- A plate for mixing the coloured paint
- Paper to print onto – any thick paper is ok
- An object to use as the stamp for printing that has a texture or can be cut into a design such as:
- Empty toilet paper rolls
- Bubble wrap, glad wrap
- Erasers, rubbers, elastic bands
- Twine, wool, string – wrap it around another object
- Sponges
- Cardboard
- A hard firm fruit or vegetable that you don’t plan to eat (eg. potato, carrot, pear, pumpkin, sweet potato, turnip)
Who will be teaching?
Emilie is a Melbourne based artist and maker who moved from France in 2014. Her illustrations have been published by the Lifted Brow, and she self-published her first graphic novel in 2018 with Tree Paper Comics in Melbourne. When she isn’t teaching with Laneway Learning, Emilie works with a range of media, from video to printmaking, 3D printing and a variety of paint mediums. Emilie is currently finishing her PhD at the VCA (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne).