Printing processes that use everyday materials to develop a creative focus for anyone, anywhere By Ruth Purdy

By Ruth Purdy

As a freelance artist providing sessions in the care sector, I work with non-traditional audiences in non-traditional arts spaces.

My practice relies on working with multiple disciplines and the reinvention of processes designing for accessibility.

Here are some starting points from which your great printing projects can begin using everyday materials; I hope you enjoy them.


Printing with fingers and thumbs

Marking a shape with your thumb and an inkpad repeating this in different coloured inks. Ruth Purdy
Marking a shape with your thumb and an ink pad repeating this in different coloured inks


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Marbling for Surface Design by Ruth Purdy

Artist Ruth Purdy empowers people to get creative; in this post, Ruth shows how Marbling techniques can be an accessible way into creative processes with absolutely beautiful results. Artist Ruth Purdy empowers people to get creative; in this post, Ruth shows how Marbling techniques can be an accessible way into creative processes with absolutely beautiful results.

Rowan: Clay Coiling Techniques to Make Penguins, Tweety Pie and a Dalek too!

Artist led facilitation in a setting for adults with learning disabilities; Abi, Sarah and students at Rowan, Cambridge, show how they made clay birds using clay coiling techniques and with a plaster mould for the birds' bases. Artist led facilitation in a setting for adults with learning disabilities; Abi, Sarah and students at Rowan, Cambridge, show how they made clay birds using clay coiling techniques and with a plaster mould for the birds’ bases.

Playing with tape, projectors, Wicky Sticks and so much more!

Accessible approaches for collaborative drawing with visually impaired students with Sara Dudman and Debbie Locke at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Devon Accessible approaches for collaborative drawing with visually impaired students with Sara Dudman and Debbie Locke at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Devon

Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity

During a two week residency, Sheila Ceccarelli, from AccessArt, worked with Aspirations, a group of adult learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and staff at Red2Green, on a series of practical workshop sessions, exploring creative processes from drawing and printmaking to sculpture & casting, inspired by nature and culminating in an exhibition. During a two week residency, Sheila Ceccarelli, from AccessArt, worked with Aspirations, a group of adult learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and staff at Red2Green, on a series of practical workshop sessions, exploring creative processes from drawing and printmaking to sculpture & casting, inspired by nature and culminating in an exhibition.

The lion, The witch and The wardrobe by Kaz Trinder

Artist Kaz Trinder shares a glimpse of her work with adults with learning difficulties at Frimhurst Enterprises, Surry Artist Kaz Trinder shares a glimpse of her work with adults with learning difficulties at Frimhurst Enterprises, Surry


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Kaz Trinder


Rowan: Clay Coiling Techniques to Make Penguins, Tweety Pie and a Dalek too!


Playing with tape, projectors, Wicky Sticks and so much more!


Rowan: Making a Clay Bird from a Mould


Red to Green: Wax Resist and Scraffito

 


Red to Green: Making Sculpture


Red to Green: Steps to Observational Drawing


Red to Green: Monoprinting


Red to Green: Block Printing


Red to Green: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

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Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity – Red to Green

One: Casting

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Two: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Three: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Four: Block Printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Five: Monoprinting

Exploring texture, pattern and mark making through monoprinting

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Six: Steps to Observational Drawing

Four steps to enabling observational drawing

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Seven: Making Sculpture

Learners explore sculptural principles of form, space and balance

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Eight: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Introducing colour with wax resist and scraffito techniques

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Animal Sculpture and Collage with Students at Philip Southcote School, Surrey


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