Art Next Steps - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Arnold Library, Nottingham

Key details

Date -
Sessions Mondays: 6pm - 8pm
No. sessions 6
Venue Arnold Library, Nottingham
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 12
Cost FREE - £35

About this course

This course gives you an introduction to other techniques such as collagraph printing.  You can use drawings previously done to then create a collagraph print from the drawing.   Over the course, you will learn how to successfully develop previous drawings into collagraph prints.  You will learn what collagraph printing is, where it came from and what easy results you can get from using this fun printing method.    


By the end of the course, you will:  

  • Build confidence in collagraph printing techniques.  
  • Create 2D outcomes.  
  • Understand and be able to use a variety of media such as ink, fabrics & paper.    
  • Understand the history of collagraph printing.  

Resources required:

A basic sketchbook/notepad or paper to draw onto, a pen, pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, craft knife.  


Suggested Reading for the course: 

Making Collagraph Prints by Suzie MacKenzie.  ISBN 1785005812 / 9781785005817 


Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).  As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire

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