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Combine your love of mixed media with photography and printmaking, all without a press!

 

LIFETIME COURSE ACCESS | 8 WEEKS TUTOR SUPPORT | PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNITY

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Discover new processes and techniques and reframe your perception of printmaking

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Fine artist Sally Tyrie shares her signature methods used to create her stunning works of art with you through her online course with Fibre Arts Take Two, Visual Narratives - Print, Paint, Stitch.

Your training will begin with researching and examining areas of interest, before revealing ways of reimagining mark-making and collage from Sally’s considered and painterly approach. Use various print techniques without a press, including gel plate, photo litho and collagraph printing whilst learning to abstract visual narratives from any source of inspiration to create an ambitious body of work.

Students will feel like they are invited into Sally’s world for an intimate workshop & deep dive into her processes and techniques whilst experiencing both urban and coastal landscapes that inform and inspire her work.

All course materials, including self-paced beautifully filmed streaming videos and comprehensive resource guides, are within an easy to use member portal and yours to access and revisit at any time.

Join a worldwide community of enrolled students who come together in a private online forum and share printmaking adventures directly with Sally Tyrie. Ask questions, bounce ideas, share knowledge and benefit from this course being your resource for life!

Here's what you can expect from Visual Narratives...

Meet Sally Tyrie

Sally Tyrie works predominantly with printmaking, mixed media and photography, often preferring to select surface and media that makes connections with the theme and context. Method and meaning are often interconnected.

Approaches often involve deconstructing and assembling work using collage methods. In particular juxtaposing multilayered prints and drawings with machine or hand stitch as a way to examine, reinterpret and reimagine. Sally is drawn to techniques that allow ‘chance’ and ‘accident’ to adopt a more painterly and expressive approach.

Her method of working usually involves some form of initial research and investigation. For instance repeated visits to a location or historical research in a subject.  It is important to Sally that visual and historical research underpin and inform the group of work. The investigative journey is as much a part of the work as the end result.

Sally is especially drawn to subjects with historical and environmental interest and looks forward to sharing her research and investigative approach to mixed media printmaking with you. 

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Course Modules

In each Visual Narratives module, you’ll learn the methodologies and philosophies that helped Sally become an internationally recognised mixed media artist. 

 
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MODULE 1: SETTING THE SCENE

This module covers the starting point of your project and will help you to identify areas and subjects of interest. You will look at how to get started and the environment you need to ensure you have an inspiring, positive and productive foundation for your project to ensure longevity and clarity of ideas.
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MODULE 2: FIELD RESEARCH

Join Sally as she shares with you some of her favourite places around Portsmouth to conduct field research to collect visual inspiration. Observe and capture imagery and learn the best ways of doing this. You will also, (where relevant) collect objects including flora, fragments, and textures. Your setting can either be rural or townscape.

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MODULE 3: MAKING A MARK

Collate, review, edit and present the imagery you have collected, then make selections from favourite visual sources. You will make notes about the ideas that are emerging and being formed from the last stage.

This module includes further reading around your subject to sharpen your ideas and covers basic photography editing tools using Microsoft Word and Photoshop so you can begin to reimagine your images into a more abstract version.

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MODULE 4: VISUAL REACTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS

This module is about changing and abstracting the original imagery and moving away from literal translations using gelli plate and mono-printing techniques with various media to create lively mark-making from collected sources and imagery.

You will look at viewpoints and create exciting, unusual and personal versions that make a new vision of your work. Through this mark-making process, you will also unpick and visually investigate the imagery and ideas you are interested in.

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MODULE 5: PRINTMAKING WITH PHOTOS

This module is about making prints that directly use and incorporate your gathered photography. It is an opportunity to learn the Photo Litho technique incorporating oil-based printmaking inks and see how it’s possible to use the photos more creatively by combining printmaking and photos together.
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MODULE 6: COLLOGRAPHY - WITHOUT A PRESS

Learn techniques and methods of collography. We will look at how to translate your imagery and ideas into beautiful collagraph plates and produce prints from these plates. You’ll be encouraged to make lots of small plates to fully explore the marks, patterns, lines and textures you have gathered. Sally covers the tools, equipment and papers needed, including ways to mix colours to achieve your desired outcome.

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MODULE 7: PRINT STUDIO

Join Sally on a special print-making studio tour and demonstration of the best practices when working in a professional print studio.

Filmed at the Omega Center in Portsmouth, Sally demonstrates how to print collographs and photo litho so you can see the results from working with a large press.

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MODULE 8: REFLECTIONS & CONSIDERATIONS

This module begins with reflections and considerations of what you have created. We will then work on the imagery to further abstract, exploring book-making techniques, laying and juxtapositions using collage.

This is a time for quiet reflection as you decide how to develop your work into a personal progression. Here Sally offers an opportunity and encourages you to critique and examine your work

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MODULE 9: BUILD A CONSISTENT BODY OF WORK

Having selected media and work to take into further development –you will work with these prints and collaged papers to create more resolved art. You will also consider the format and surface you work with. 

Take further steps to identify the shape, scale and number of pieces to create. Will it be a series of works or ‘one-offs’ with different results?

Sally demonstrates how to make your own tray frame from a repurposed book cover and how she incorporates stitch into her multilayered pieces.

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Why Enrol in a Fibre Arts Take Two Signature Course?

Joining Visual Narratives - Print, Paint, Stitch includes:

  • Lifetime Access: Revisit the course content anytime to refresh your skills or find new inspiration. Learn at your own pace!
  • Student Community Group: Engage with like-minded artists and form connections that could last a lifetime.
  • Two Live Q&A Sessions: Get direct feedback and insights from Sally herself.
  • 8 Weeks of Tutor Support: Sally will be there to guide you, answer your questions, and help you overcome any artistic hurdles.
  • Showcase your artwork: your enrolment includes an invitation to participate in an online exhibition.

Some Helpful FAQs

 

If we still need to answer yours, please contact the Fibre Arts Take Two team at
support@fibreartstaketwo.com and ask away!

Sally will be available in the private Facebook Community after enrolment closes and will answer your questions for a minimum of 8 weeks starting 18 November 2024.

There will also be 2 live Q&As during this time which will be broadcast on YouTube. Questions can be submitted in advance and a recording of each Q&A will be made available in your course portal.

Please do not email your tutor directly. All questions can be submitted through the Facebook group or via email to support@fibreartstaketwo.com to be answered during our live Q&A sessions with your tutor.

Please note as a practising artist and tutor it may not be possible for Sally to comment on every post. She will engage as much as possible between her other commitments and the Fibre Arts Take Two team is always available to help.

From the moment you join us – you will receive the entire 10-module course, which includes over 12 hours of beautifully filmed content with lifetime access, including downloadable PDF resource guides. You’ll also be welcomed into our online community, where you can introduce yourself and meet all your other new, aspiring, and growing artists. Once you’re all settled into your new digital home, you will meet Sally with your classmates for two live Q&A calls. The details of the Q&As will be emailed two weeks in advance.  We can’t wait to see you there!

Not at all. This course was created with you in mind – the creative who wants to watch in your own time, hit pause, re-watch, take a break, and then return for more! You can ask Sally questions in the private student community for an 8 week period starting 18 November 2024. This is the only time-sensitive aspect of the course. Please know that there is no set schedule to complete this course – plus, you’ll have all the content for life!

Because we have students from all around the world – we have geolocation set up to try and accommodate where we can! Therefore, we currently accept USD, AUD, GBP, Euro, CAD and NZD… with more to come! And if your currency wasn’t mentioned, your bank will still automatically convert it to your local currency once the charge goes through.

(And on the topic of being international, Fibre Arts Take Two, the course producers, are based in Australia… hence the spelling of things like fibre, realise and enrol!)

All Australian purchases are GST inclusive.

Absolutely! The course content is fully responsive, so it will work regardless of whether you’re on a computer or mobile device. All you need is an internet connection.

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By submitting your email address and registering your interest, you agree to receive information about this course, one monthly eNewsletter and weekly Friday Feature Artist interview updates via email, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We will never share or sell your personal information.

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