Print A Cloudscape From Your Own Design - Follow Up Cloudscape Reduction Print Workshop with Steve Manning
Workshop with Steve Manning
Friday 24 October 2025, 10.30am - 4.30pm
£75
Venue: MAKE Southwest
Suitable for: Adults
Level: All Abilities
Print A Cloudscape From Your Own Design - Follow up Cloudscape Reduction Print Workshop with Steve Manning
The reduction printmaking process, unlike multi-block printing, uses only one block of lino to produce a finished image. It can be a challenging discipline as the block is destroyed with each stage of the process. But with careful planning the end results can be very satisfying.
Suitable for those who have taken part in the Cloud Reduction Print Workshop or those with some experience of lino printmaking.
Aim:
This workshop will enable participants to create their own cloudscape print from their own design employing techniques and approaches learned on the Cloudscape Workshop.
By the end of the workshop participants will have created one or more small cloudscape print using the lino reduction printmaking process.
Learning outcomes:
Participants will understand how to:
create a workable cloudscape design
transfer their design to the lino block
cut a design from a lino block
use the reduction printmaking process
to overlay inks
effectively roll ink onto a block
register an image to paper using Ternes Burton registration method
apply the image to paper using hand burnishing
On the day:
Please bring a drawing or photograph of your chosen cloudscape(s) to be produced as a lino print of no more than A5 size (14 x 21cm).
About Steve
I am an Exeter based printmaker inspired by the big skies, wetlands and moors of the South West. My work endeavours to represent these ephemeral landscapes using a medium usually associated with bold blocks of colour. I use reduction printing, mono print techniques and various methods of ink thinning to achieve a lightness of touch often described as ‘painterly’.
The creation of my prints is a painstaking exercise using a medium not entirely suited to rendering the fleeting nature of my chosen subject matter!
I should be a water colourist but I love the combination of craft and fine art printmaking offers.
On the Day
All tools and materials will be provided.
Please bring a drawing or photograph of your chosen cloudscape(s) to be produced as a lino print of no more than A5 size (14 x 21cm).
Tea, coffee and biscuits are included and will be available on the day. There will be a short lunch break during the workshop and participants are welcome to bring a packed lunch. Our Café is also open should you wish to purchase other refreshments during the workshop - all participants receive a 10% discount voucher for food and drink purchased on the day.
On arrival, please make your way to the side gate of the Riverside Mill, through the courtyard and up the stone stairs on the side of the building. Please let us know if you require the lift.
Please be aware that you cannot use the Co-op car park for all day parking. The Methodist Church car park and Station Road car park usually have plenty of spaces. Click here for more information on our location and car parking for the day.
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