Develop the eye of a designer and create gel plate prints like a fine artist.
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Gel plate printing at home is excellent, however there comes a time when you want more than just collage papers.
- As you grow and develop your techniques, you want predictable and reliable results so you can turn your inspiration into tangible artwork.
. - No longer satisfied with a muddy mess, and you long for translucent and multilayered prints without needing expensive printmaking equipment.
. - You desire a clear and precise framework to make intentional colour and design decisions with everything you need at your fingertips to create artwork on one page!
Tara Axford took many years to embrace and develop a creative process that leveraged her precise designer’s mindset with her free-flowing artists’ imagination. Something that affords her the luxury to solve problems quicker whilst relaxing into the creative flow to almost effortlessly turn inspiration into artwork.
As an experienced mixed media artist and instructor, Tara knows many artists struggle with processing their ideas to utilise inspiration. As a creative director and designer, she understands the importance of learning to unpick often overwhelming amounts of visual stimulation to extract the essence of your findings, so you can confidently create well-composed and unique artwork.
Tara fell in love with the Gel Plate early in her Mixed Media career. She made it her mission to tame the plate and avoid disappointment. Now Tara Axford returns to the Fibre Arts Take Two platform to share the techniques she’s mastered and the methods she’s developed in a unique online curriculum so you can…
Think Like A Designer. Create Like An Artist!
Gel plate printing at home is excellent. However, there comes a time when you want more than just collage papers. As you grow and develop your techniques, you want a clear and precise framework to deliver predictable and reliable results, so you can turn your inspiration into multilayered artwork - without needing expensive printmaking equipment.
Tame the plate:
feel confident in your creative decisions.
Tara fell in love with the gel plate early in her mixed media career. She made it her mission to tame the plate and avoid disappointment. Now, Tara invites you to share the techniques she’s mastered and methods she’s developed.
As an experienced mixed media artist and instructor, Tara Axford knows many artists struggle with processing their ideas to utilise inspiration. It took Tara many years to embrace and develop a creative process that leveraged her precise designer’s mindset with her free-flowing artists’ imagination. This unique blend affords her the luxury to solve problems quicker whilst relaxing into the creative flow so she can (almost!) effortlessly turn inspiration into artwork.
As a creative director and designer, she understands the importance of learning to unpick often overwhelming amounts of visual stimulation to extract the essence of your findings, so you can confidently create well-composed and unique artwork.
Why Enrol in a Fibre Arts Take Two Signature Course?
Joining Art & Design Through Gel Plate Printing 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 Tara herself.
- 8 Weeks of Tutor Support: TAra 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!
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Tara will be available in the private Facebook Community after enrolment closes and will answer your questions for a minimum of 8 weeks starting 1 January 2025.
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 Tara 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 course, which includes 9.5 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 Tara 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!
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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 Tara questions in the private student community for an 8 week period starting 1 January 2025. 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!
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Enrolment in Art & Design will be $398 USD. There will be 2 and 5 month payment plans available.
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Great question. Tara’s first online course, Inspired by Nature – Exploring Mixed Media, focuses on finding inspiration from and untangling nature, exploring that through various mixed media techniques, from collage, gel plate printing, watercolour and inks. It focused on Tara’s work and aesthetic. Art & Design focuses purely on Gel Plate techniques and unpicking inspiration through various art, craft and design movements; here, Tara takes inspiration from other artists. Inspired By Nature has 4.5 hours of module content; Art & Design has 9.5 hours.
For more information about how the courses are different, watch this video. -
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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