Duckprint is a fully equipped fine art print workshop that meets all the requirements of the professional artist wishing to run fine art limited editions with a master printer. We offer courses that are suited to both beginners and advanced students.

Duckprint offers a wide range of courses covering various printmaking techniques. Duckprint workshops are available to those without a printmaking or even visual arts background. Students will be working closely with a master printer with over a decade and a half of experience in the printmaking field. Advanced workshops are also available for those wishing to explore the possibilities of printmaking. Both courses are suited to senior Visual Arts students completing their HSC body of works.

Lithography is a traditional printmaking process that is the closest to painting and drawing. Lithography is the perhaps the most complex and intensive printmaking process. Students undertaking the beginners course will be working with metal plates.

The advanced course covers stone lithographic processes where students will be working on traditional lithographic stones. It is recommended that students should already be thoroughly familiar with lithographic techniques before undertaking the course in stone lithography.

In principle, relief printing works in direct opposition to intalgio etching. To create a mark, ink is applied to a raised surface and then printed on to paper.

Woodblock printing was the earliest printmaking process. Relief printing encompasses a range of processes other than the woodblock technique. Methods such as lino block and the collograph method will also be taught as part of the preliminary relief printing course. Advanced students will be introduced to multi-block and reduction printing.

Intaglio etching is a printing process in which the image is physically or chemically etched into a metal plate. Any ink that sits within an incised line or mark will be printed.

It is the diverse variety of intaglio techniques which makes it the most versatile process of printmaking. The etching process is an active contributor in image creation. The etching process actively mediates between the artist and the image resulting in accidental marks and unexpected results.

Both beginners and advanced courses in intaglio etching are offered.

This course teaches traditional high quality European bookbinding techniques. Students and artists will be taken through all processes from sewing the sections through to creating prints on paper that will be bound as individual artists books with embellished covers in book cloth or leather. Boxes will also be created to house the books. This course is also relevant to artists and students working in photography, drawing and painting.

All these workshops encourages the artist/student to explore the medium and to discuss techniques and ideas with the tutor.