1 Day Mini-Plate Making Course

Demonstration how to create a plate of intense, dense black by indenting a solid field of dots using a mezzotint rocker and work back into the copper plate by burnishing tones that reveal themselves from the dark giving a strong sense of depth, form and chiaroscuro, (light to dark contrasts).

Avery Lau, an experienced mezzotint printmaking artist, will show you the skills of burnishing as well as tricks and tips to make your prints strong and atmospheric. This is a perfect medium for reproducing dramatic light effects and contrasts in your imagery.

Cost: $1500 per person

Date: Saturday May 20th

Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm 

Lino printing is a fun and easy to learn printing method producing striking and colourful results. Reduction prints use the same linoleum block to print all of the colours in an image.On this full day workshop you will learn how to design, cut and print your own two colour reduction linocut. You will be taught how to simplify an image and separate the colours in order to produce a multicolour print. Create your own designs and take home a small limited edition of prints! No lino cutting experience is necessary.

Cost: $1500HKD per person

When: Saturday June 10th, 2023

Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (lunch at 12:00pm - 1:00pm)

This Open Studio session is for those who have taken part in an etching class at MPC, or else where in the past. Open to the general public. 

Important to note: This session is not a class. It is a time where the studio is opened up to allow students to continue past projects or create new etching works. There will be no teaching but assistance is available from Erika Shiba.

Cost:$400 per session

Date: Saturday April 29th

Time:12:00 pm - 5:00 pm 

This Open Studio session is for those who have taken part in a lino class at MPC, or else where in the past. Open to the general public. 

Important to note: This session is not a class. It is a time where the studio is opened up to allow students to continue past projects or create new lino works. There will be no teaching but assistance is available from Lucy Parris.

Because this session is not a class, students who have taken courses outside of MPC may be asked to show examples of past work to gauge their skill level.

Cost: $300 per session

Date: Monday May 8th, 2023

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Etching is a traditional printmaking process in which lines or marks are physically bitten into a piece of metal (often copper) using an acid. This technique dates back to the sixteenth century and has been widely used by artists specializing in various mediums to create multiples of one image. 

This course offers beginner, intermediate and advanced levels to learn the different intricacies of the traditional printing method of etching. The beginner level is suited for students who have never explored the medium. The intermediate level covers aquatint and advanced offers advanced etching techniques such as tusche wash and alcohol toner wash.

Michelle has just recently been to the Arctic Circle to finish her 17 day artist residency at Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees latitude from the North Pole.

During that time she finished 20 woodblock carvings on the boat.

Learn about her practice and experience and of course learn or practice printing and carving woodblock.

Class date: December 11, 2022 Sunday

Avery Lau is one of award winners in the HKOP Award in Printmaking in 2019, will show you the skills of burnishing as well as tricks and tips to make your prints strong and atmospheric. This is a perfect medium for reproducing dramatic light effects and contrasts in your imagery. Following a detailed demonstration, you will use your own visual reference which will be developed into suitable imagery to be transferred to a pre-rocked copper plate.

Class date: Saturday 19th November, 2022