The day will cover mosaic design, preparation, materials and tools, plus sources of mosaic pieces. Wendy will demonstrate techniques and show some worked examples. You will then create your own piece.

You can choose to make
• a ceramic tray for a bird feeder, to go outside, or
• a bamboo tray to use as a coaster or table centrepiece,
• At the end of the day each person will take home a completed item.

Things to bring:
• An apron
• Cover for the table (old cloth or newspaper)
• A whole used newspaper for the grouting
• A tin of pledge type polish!
• A small dish or plastic tray to collect your mosaics

£12 per person payable on the day direct to the tutor for materials

Attendees to bring their own lunch

HACG will provide tea/coffee/milk

Have fun spending the day painting, printing, cutting and sticking!

Inspired by the works of Paul Klee and contemporary artist Emma Brownjohn, we will explore different approaches to creating stylized images of tiny townscapes.
With multiple layers of paint, print and collage we will develop our piece of work incorporating a variety of techniques.
A fun and informal workshop, lots of step-by-step demos & individual help.... no experience necessary…..just a big apron!

Materials to bring:
Heavy watercolour paper or mixed media paper as a base for your work

Collage papers…..small scraps of book pages, patterned papers, music scores – whatever you have (tutor will also bring some)
PVA or acrylic matt medium or glue stick

Drawing pencil, rubber, black fineliner pen, optional white pen
Felt tips or Posca pens or coloured pencils (tutor will also bring some to share)

Acrylic paints or tube watercolours/gouache – primary colours, black & white plus any others you may have
Brushes (inc. a broad flat one if you have it), palette, water pot, kitchen roll, scissors

Textures to print with e.g bubble wrap, ribbed card, wallpaper etc (tutor will also bring some)

Images for inspiration as starting points – photos, magazines, travel brochures etc

Old clothes / apron

N.B This is also suitable for work on textiles – substitute watercolour paper for calico and collage papers for small pieces of fabric. Acrylic paints work well on fabric, as well as actual fabric paints.

Abstract artist Sarah Burton will introduce us to a world of remembered places. Using our memories as a springboard we will abstract shapes and use bold marks and colour choices to create a unique contemporary painting.

Painting without reference to photographs, you will be creating your own individual and unique landscape.

Materials:
Acrylic paints - bring your favourite colours - a mixture of opaque and transparent if possible. (no oils or watercolours)
A square canvas, any size you like but no smaller than 50cm x 50cm
We will be using flat Mottler brushes. If you don't have any, I will bring some.
Water pot
Palette
Kitchen roll
An easel if you use one
A pen that doesn't smudge when painted over but beware of Sharpie pens!

In this fun, one day workshop you will learn how to create a seascape using the unique art form of needle felting. You will learn about compositions and how to layer and blend the wool to create a tranquil scene and there will be plenty of demonstrations and hands on assistance. I must warn you that this technique is addictive!

Rebecca will start by introducing needle felting, it’s history and explaining the qualities of the wool. Before you get started, you will have the opportunity to practice blending colours and be shown how to apply the wool in certain ways to create different textures.

You might like to bring an image along to use, for example, a sunset you have captured, somewhere that is a ‘special place’. The image is just the starting point, as your piece will naturally develop and change slightly as you work with the wool, so don’t worry if you don’t have a specific image to work from.

Please arrive from 9.30 to help set up the tables and chairs.

£10 for materials payable to the tutor on the day for wool and 18cm square frame.

Attendees to bring their own lunch.

HACG will provide tea/coffee/milk.

On this workshop you will create a house portrait of your own house (and you could make all those changes you have been dreaming about e.g. change the colour of the front door, tidy up the garden, clean the roof etc!)

We will start by reviewing all the images so that we know which techniques to cover during the workshop before we get to work eg brick work, reflections, trees and so on.

Next we will trace the outline image onto watercolour paper. After that we will prepare the line drawing in black line and will add watercolour, refining this as we go through the day

Janina will lead you through all the steps involved and there will be lots of encouragement and time to ask questions.

What to bring:

Please print out your main image of your house in the size you want to paint (as we will be tracing). Bring extra photos of any details especially any features in shade, These can be actual prints or you can work form your digital device.

Watercolour paint - blue (phthalo or cobalt or ultramarine), yellow ochre, Payne’s grey, burnt sienna, buff titanium. If you have any flowers in bloom bring appropriate colours for those. Pans or tubes are fine.

Smooth watercolour paper – for example Cass Art A4 hot pressed (HP) smooth 300gsm or similar. You will need a sheet for the painting and another for testing colours and masking fluid. Smooth watercolour paper is often called “hot pressed”.

Watercolour brushes – small round number 2, medium round number 6. A small flat number 2 is useful for brickwork

Fine waterproof black pen eg Staedtler Pigment liner 0.3

Pencil, sharpener, eraser

Mixing palette

Jam jars for water

Kitchen roll

If you have the following please bring them otherwise Janina will have some spares you can borrow.

Masking fluid

Dip pen

Tracing paper

Carbon or tracedown paper