Course curriculum

  • 1

    Let's begin

    • Get inspired!

    • About this course

    • Meet your tutor – Sally Tyrie

    • Welcome to Visual Narratives

    • Important dates and live Q&A details

    • Complete tools and materials list

    • Commonly asked questions

    • Visual Narratives – Introduction
  • 2

    Module one – Setting the scene

    • Module one – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Beginning a project

    • Active reading

    • Sketchbooks and capturing ideas

    • Productive studio spaces

    • On location praticalities

    • Summary

    • Module one – Action tasks and ideas
  • 3

    Module two – Field research

    • Module two – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • On location photography

    • Collecting objects

    • Urban photography

    • Drawing from nature

    • Summary

    • Module two – Action tasks and ideas
  • 4

    Module three – Review, edit and examine

    • Module three – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Organising digitial images

    • Simple editing – MS Word

    • Photoshop – black and white

    • Photoshop – colour and cropping

    • Photoshop – saving and image size

    • Creating a contact sheet – MS Word

    • Printing images

    • Analog image examples

    • Cutting up images

    • Painterly methods of editing

    • Exploring painterly methods

    • Creating layers and depth

    • Re-examining active reading

    • Acetate image transfer

    • Summary

    • Module three – Action tasks and ideas

  • 5

    Module four – Visual reactions and explorations

    • Module four – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Gel plate printing – quick ink drawings

    • Gel plate printing – adding acrylic

    • Gel plate printing – obscuring and revealing

    • Gel plate printing – mono printing

    • Gel plate printing – book example

    • Monoprinting – preparing paper and tools

    • Monoprinting – mixing printing inks

    • Monoprinting – responding with a painterly approach

    • Monoprinting – Creating multiple layers

    • Monoprinting – ideas and examples

    • Summary

    • Module four – Action tasks and ideas
  • 6

    Module five – Printmaking with photos

    • Module five – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Photo litho – inspiration

    • Photo litho – preparing papers

    • Photo litho – inks and printing

    • Photo litho – layering with fine papers

    • Evaluation

    • Summary

    • Module five – Action tasks and ideas

    • BONUS - Photo litho process
  • 7

    Module six – Collography – without a press

    • Module six – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Tools, equipment and media

    • Making collagraph plate

    • Gluing elements

    • Varnishing

    • Mixing inks and colours

    • Inking a collagraph plate

    • Basic collagraph printing

    • Printing onto fabric

    • Multi layered prints

    • Cleaning the plate

    • Summary

    • Module six – Action tasks and ideas
  • 8

    Module seven – Print studio bonus

    • Module seven – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Dampening paper

    • Mixing the ink

    • Inking up

    • Photo litho with a printing press

    • Working with collagraph plate

    • Inking up collagraph plate

    • Printing collagraph plate

    • Tools

    • Summary
  • 9

    Module eight – Reflections and considerations

    • Module eight – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Analyzing your work

    • Abstracting – making a slit book

    • Abstracting – stitching and photographing slit book

    • Collage – exploring juxtapositions

    • Collage – layering with acetate

    • Quiet reflection

    • An invitation for critique

    • Module eight – Action tasks and ideas

  • 10

    Module nine – Building a body of work

    • Module nine – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Resolving your work

    • Display options

    • Using machine stitch – demo

    • Stitching through harder materials – demo

    • Containers

    • Tray frame demo – part one

    • Tray frame demo – part two

    • Summary

    • Module nine – Action tasks and ideas
  • 11

    Module ten – Bookmaking bonus

    • Module ten – Resource guide

    • Introduction

    • Preparing book pages

    • Components of the book

    • Glueing pages together

    • Constructing the spine – part one

    • Constructing the spine – part two

    • Applying the cover

    • Gluing end pages

    • Gluing pages

    • Finishing
  • 12

    Conclusion

    • Visual Narratives Conclusion

    • Before You Go...

    • Bloopers
  • 13

    Live Q&A sessions

    • Live Q&A Session # 1 - 19th November 2022

    • Live Q&A Session # 2 - 15th December 2022

    • Live Q&A Session #1 - 28th September 2023

    • Live Q&A Session # 2 - 12th October 2023 (With special guest: Helen Terry)

    • Live Q&A Session #1 - 3 December 2024

    • Live Q&A Session #2 - 9 January 2024
  • 14

    Weekly Additions

    • Sally's Additions 2022 - Updates from Facebook

    • Sally's Additions 2024 - 2025- Updates from Facebook
  • 15

    Online Exhibitions

    • InRetrospect - 2024 Online Exhibition

    • Reveal & Conceal - 2023 Online Exhibition

    • Realigned - Student Online Exhibition 2025