First Steps in Etching - Kate Desforges

This course will teach you all the basics of hard and soft ground etching, and aquatint, to enable you to create a wide variety of marks and effects.

You will experiment with etching onto zinc and aluminium plates using copper sulphate solution, a less-toxic alternative to traditional nitric acid. The course is led with a hands-on approach from the start, with the opportunity to produce a good number of prints to take away with you. You will also learn about paper, inking and registration techniques. This is a great course for beginners and those who need a refresher, and can act as a lead-in to membership of WYPW so that you can continue to use and develop the techniques you have learnt.

Our courses have limited spaces and are booked through our website.

The course costs £125, with a 10% discount for members.

For more information visit http://www.wypw.org/shop/first-steps-in-etching-january/