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The Art of Screen Printing - 4 week evening course

The Art of Screen Printing - 4 week evening course

£180.00
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Course Location: Bluecoat Screen Print Studio
Experience Level: Beginner
2026 Course Dates:
July 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd  - Thursday evenings at 5:15pm – 7:45pm
November 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th -Thursday evenings at 5:15pm – 7:45pm

The Art of Screen printing is a comprehensive course suitable for beginners. On completion you will be a knowledgeable, confident screen printer and able to hire our printmaking facilities to use.

The course schedule is as follows:

  • Week 1:  You will learn the fundamentals of screen printing and create experimental prints using hand cut paper stencils and screen mono printing techniques.
  • Week 2: You will learn how to clean a screen and prepare it for printing, as well as coating your screen in UV sensitive emulsion and exposing it to create a permanent stencil for printing. You will then use your exposed screen to create a set of prints.
  • Week 3: This week will teach you all about registration and how to use multiple screens to create multi-layered prints.
  • Week 4: Your final week will teach you how to print onto fabric, utilising all you've learnt to understand the subtle changes needed in the screen printing process to create great fabric prints.

What’s Included?

All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Our studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction to book into our Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.

Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?


All weeks: Feel free to bring along reference images to each session.
Week 2/3: If you would like to prepare an image to bring with you to print from you can use:
Inkjet/Laser Print: Please make sure it is either in BLACK INK ONLY on acetate/transparency
Hand drawn image: Please use opaque ink pens (we use black posca markers) on tracing paper or acetate/transparency for your image to expose correctly.
Week 4: We do provide tote bags for this session, but feel free to bring fabric to experiment on with fabric printing.
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What’s Included?

All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Our studios are always striving to be more environmentally friendly and use greener printmaking processes and consumables where possible.

Course Structure:

Most printmaking day workshops will follow a similar structure to the one below, but your artist-tutor may assess the needs of the class on the day and make small scheduling changes accordingly. 

  • 11am - 11:15pm: Introduction to the day, the process and each other
  • 11:15am - 11:30am: Health & safety induction
  • 11:30am - 1:30pm: Workshop teaching time
  • 1:30pm - 2pm: Lunch break
  • 2pm - 4pm: Workshop teaching time
  • 4pm - 5pm: Free time for participants to ask questions and produce more prints.

Taster sessions & weekend workshops will follow a different structure.

What happens after the course?

After you’ve completed your course, you are free to book into our open access printmaking studios. Your course acts as an induction, but if you feel like you would benefit from a free one-to-one induction or want to know more about our open access studios, you can book online below.

Book an Induction

We also offer a Bluecoat Artist Memberships scheme, which has lots of amazing perks for practicing and aspiring local printmakers. You can find out more information and purchase your membership below.

Purchase an Artist Membership

Accessibility:

The Bluecoat cafe, gardens and building floors are accessible for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility with lifts and ramp access.

The print studios have step-free access but the studio spaces & equipment have not been adapted to take into consideration any floor space/surface height needs. 

If you would like to do a print workshop with us but are unsure about accessibility, please contact the Print Studio manager at: ivy.m@thebluecoat.org.uk

Getting here:

The Bluecoat is located in Liverpool city centre and is easily accessible using public transport.

  • The closest bus stop is Tesco Hanover Street
  • The closest railway station is Liverpool Central Station

Upcoming Print Workshops

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The Bluecoat Print Studios has been housed at the Bluecoat Building, in the heart of Liverpool City Centre, for over 60 years.

We run an open access studio for artists and printmakers to hire our printmaking facilities, as well as a yearly programme of workshops and courses teaching a variety of printmaking techniques.

To learn more about using our Print Studios, please click the link below.

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