To celebrate this year's Summer Reading Challenge theme of Marvellous Makers, join us for this session, where you will become an artist for the day! Taking inspiration from famous artworks and brilliant books, we'll be doodling, collaging, building and crafting. Work together to make a giant collaborative artwork and create a craft to take home with you. Plus, you'll have a chance to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge, and borrow books. Taking place at various venues across the city:

Friday 26th July, 1.30pm-3pm - Leeds Central Library

Imagine this...

A gorgeous balmy summer afternoon. You are sitting on a camping chair or blanket with a picnic of your favourite food and drinks, your family are around you. Behind you the sun is high in the sky and warming you nicely, on a glorious summer day. In front of you a group of professional actors are presenting a fantastic, hilarious and magical production of The Wind In The Willows.

Printing a linocut jigsaw style is an easy way to print a design in multiple colours. You cut the lino block into pieces, ink them up separately, then put the lino block back together to print.

Your tutor will guide you through designing an image for the jigsaw printing method. You will also be shown how to carve the lino block, apply the inks, and print it – both with our traditional Albion relief printing press, and burnishing by hand. You will be shown examples of lino prints made using this method, and advice on the kind of designs that work best.

Join us for a four-session course exploring bookbinding methods, with opportunity to print your own book covers and end pages using monoprinting techniques.

This course will run over 4 sessions on Wednesdays 25th September – 16th October 6:30-9:00pm.

This 5 week evening course will run on Tuesdays 24th September – 22nd October 6pm-8.30pm.

Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.

What experience do I need?

This workshop will introduce you to a version of collograph which uses relief inking methods to produce prints using our fantastic range etching presses and equipment in the print workshop. You’ll use oil based inks, stencils, collage and textures to create an exciting series of prints. This is a great introduction to the collograph technique.

What experience do I need?

Explore screen printing using paper stencils on this one-day workshop. A fun and experimental approach to screen print for any experience level.

Get to grips with our fantastic screen printing facilities and learn the basics of screen printing onto paper.

You will use paper stencil methods to print multi-layered prints, experimenting with transparent inks to produce interesting layers and outcomes. Handcut stencils allow you to work quickly and you’ll make a handful of layers throughout the day.

What experience do I need?

Drypoint etching is a printing process where lines or marks are scratched or inscribed into a surface which is then printed from. It is usually by the intaglio method, where the incisions are filled with ink and printed from, rather than the relief method which prints from the surface.

Learn and explore the basics of linocut on this one day workshop.

Lino is a relief printing process. The printing plate can be made from traditional hessian backed flooring lino or a polymer based block. We will use an easy cut lino which is softer and easier to use. You will be shown how to safely cut and carve an image or pattern into the lino using specialist cutting tools. You will be shown how to ink up and print the lino using our traditional Albion press and also some simple but effective methods that can be continued at home without a press.