Gel Plate Printing Next Steps - Doodle and Pattern Book - LOCO Centre - Netherfield - Adult Learning

About this course

Using your own gel prints you’ll learn how to create a doodle and pattern-altered book. You can either bring along your gel prints or use the ones that will be created in the first session. 

Over the duration of five weeks, you will be shown how to recycle a hard-backed book, changing it into a book of colourful patterns and doodles. By using a variety of mediums and different techniques, you will be enhancing your gel prints and filling your altered book with them. We shall explore surface pattern design, discuss the importance of patterns in a cultural and global context and learn how doodling is good for your mental health. You will be creating your own patterns and doodling within the altered book.  

By the end of the course, you will:   

• be able to demonstrate a range of techniques to create patterns and doodled art 
• be able to demonstrate the use of different mediums  
• explain why the use of pattern is important in a cultural and global context 
• identify how doodling and pattern creating is linked to good mental health and wellbeing 
• be able to explain why art is important and how it relates to culture, context, society and to you 
• plan your next steps as an artist including finding new opportunities to practice and develop your skills

Resources required:

• 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. These could be bought from The Range, The Works, B&M, Hobbycraft, Amazon etc.  
• 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 (Amazon, B&M, The Works etc) 
• 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) 
• What Are Patterns In Art? Why It's Important & Types - Cult Rise

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/

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

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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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