Event type: Workshop

Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.   

Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials to create a unique 120 page hand-bound journal with a soft-cover. 

You will    

– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper

– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark! 

– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers  

– Add a hidden pocket! 

– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover       

– Add a secure fastening. 

No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places. 

18+ 

All Tuition and materials are included and tea, coffee & cake.

Spark your creativity and have fun with our fabulous friendly facilitators in Big Art! Big Art is a very special place for young children and their grown ups to discover arty things together.

Explore your creativity as a family with our special facilitated activities and make a marvellous masterpiece to take home. Plus you’ll have some  time to explore Big Art and all the wonderful resources for yourself.

Art Sparks sessions take place (subject to availability) on the following days:

Term Time: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2:15pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:15pm.

During Liverpool school holidays sessions will take place on: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:15pm.  

Tickets for these sessions are available in advance online and if any remain at the information desk at the gallery on the day.

There is a small charge of £2 per child with up to two accompanying adults who can attend free of charge.

May: 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31  June: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22,  24, 25, 28, 29July: 1, 2, 5,6,  8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30

Join Bluecoat as they explore this photographic printing process in a family friendly workshop. Collect leaves and flowers from their beautiful spring garden to create your prints, or you can bring your own.

A cyanotype is a blue print made by placing an object on paper coated with iron salts. The silhouette of the object is transferred onto the paper as it is exposed to light, and appears after washing the paper in water.

Suitable for ages 3+

Drop in.Suggested donation, £3 per child.

During this one day course you will learn the basics of screen printing, including learning about the materials used and processes involved in creating a UV exposed screen. After preparing and exposing your own screen, you’ll get time to draw your own image to print, or you can bring a suitable image with you. You’ll finish the workshop by using our screen-beds to ink and print your 2 colour designs onto paper in a small edition that you can take home with you.

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. After becoming a Bluecoat Artist Member you will be able to book into our Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.