Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric – Ellie Young-1 day


  •  February 17, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can (more…)

Platinotype – Platinum/Palladium Printing – Ellie Young -1 Day


  •  May 19, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT PLATINIUM AND PALLADIUM PRINTING: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal, exquisitely graduated in tones of neutral grey or warm sepia, with a beguiling luminosity in the high values. This modernized version provides a (more…)

Cyanotype Classic, Simple & New – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 18, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT CYANOTYPE This process requires no other chemicals, can be exposited in sunlight and developed simply in water. Cyanotypes provide a beautiful image in stable Prussian blue pigment. The image colour may be easily modified by a variety of toning agents. THE CANOTYPE HISTORY Sir John Herschel’s Classic/traditional cyanotype process, now practiced for 166 years, (more…)

Kallitypes – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 5, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT THE KALLITYPE PRINT: Although often confused with Van Dyke Brown and Argerotypes it is more related to platinum and palladium printing in its evolution and tonal values. Due to this it was known as “the poor man’s platinum print”, when the image is toned in platinum or palladium the result is chemically close to (more…)

Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric – Ellie Young-1 day


  •  May 4, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can (more…)

Carbon Transfer Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Days


  •  January 20, 2024 - January 21, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT CARBON PRINTING The carbon printing process uses colour pigments producing one of the the most permanent coloured photographs. The use of pigment allows any colour photograph on almost any surface. The beautiful tonal scale resolves fine detail.  It relies upon the ability of sensitized gelatin when exposed to U V light becoming insoluble in (more…)

Opalotypes and Orotones- Ellie Young – 3 Days


  •  March 15, 2024 - March 17, 2024
     9:30 am - 5:00 pm

ABOUT THE OPALOTYPE PROCESS Opalotypes were printed on sheets of opal white glass; traditional were sometimes hand-tinted with colors to enhance their effect. The basic opalotype technique, involving wet collodion, silver gelatin and to a lesser degree carbon. The Process was patented in 1857 by Glover and Bold ofLiverpool. Opalotypes are created by the carbon (more…)

Salt and Albumen Printing – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  February 24, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aliened not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of (more…)

Bromoils & Oil Printing 2 Days Ellie Young


  •  March 1, 2024 - March 2, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

OIL PRINTING &  BROMOILS The oil print and bromoil processes create soft images reminiscent of painting but retains a distinctively photographic look.  The painterly qualities of the prints continue to appeal to artists and have recently led some contemporary art photographers to take up these processes again. The workshop is combing the two processes as (more…)

Lith Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Day


  •  February 8, 2024 - February 9, 2024
     9:30 am - 5:00 pm

ABOUT LITH PRINTING Lith Prints are usually warm-toned prints with a unique combination of subtle low contrast properties in the highlights, warm mid-tones, and high contrast colder tones in the shadows. It is an extremely flexible process and many variations may be found from highly graphic to soft ethereal effects. Lith prints tone well in selenium (more…)