Tutor: Nicholas Boon Dates & Time: x10 Monday: 13 September - 29 November (except 18 & 25 October) 7pm - 9pm Fee: £80 / £70 pp
This is a course for those with some - or a lot of – experience in life-drawing. Nick will be sensitive to your needs and can support you how you indicate. Whether this is an opportunity to return to observational drawing with some good tutorage, or a window of creative time for yourself and you require little support except someone else to direct the sittings, then this is the course for you.
Japanese Card-Making Workshop
Tutor: Kumi Middleton www.kumimiddleton.co.uk Date & Time: Wednesday 15 September 2010: 2.30pm – 4.30pm Fee: £10 pp
Would you like to create a greetings card with a difference? How about one made using "kirie", which is a traditional Japanese paper cutting technique, or one using collage with Japanese motifs? The card you create will be so unique and beautiful that, who knows, you might end up keeping it for yourself!! Of course you can extend these special techniques to make something else like producing some wall art in your own time.
Come and try this fun workshop. Suitable for all levels; no special skills required.
Life-Drawing Course - Beginners to Intermediate
Tutor: Diane Hall Dates & Time: x5 Wednesdays: 15 September - 13 October 6.30pm - 8.30pm Fee: £40 / £35 pp
Drawing is something that you can learnThe only things you will need are something to draw with. At this stage of the course don’t feel you have to go out and buy the best and most expensive equipment available. One of the joys of drawing is that you can make a picture using almost anything. All levels of ability are respected and valid, bring an apron / old shirt.
Textile Corsages & Fabric Flowers
Tutor: Ruth Singer www.ruthsinger.com Date & Time: Wednesday 22 September 2010: 2.30pm – 4.30pm Fee: £10 pp
Learn how to make fabric flowers of all shapes and sizes, using traditional and contemporary techniques. Flowers can be made into brooches, hat-pins, hair decorations or attached to bags, cushions or even lampshades!
This taster workshop gives you the chance to try making a couple of different styles of fabric flower including using recycled leather and fabrics.
Drypoint and Chine collé printmaking (Leicester Print Workshop offsite course)
Tutor: Sarah Kirby Date & Time: Saturday 25 September 2010: 10am – 4pm Fee: £55 (£50 concessions) pp
An accessible form of etching where the participant incises and scratches into a plastic. Combine with collage to bring instant colour.
Tutor: Linda Miller (from Hampshire) www.lindamillerembroideries.co.uk Date & Time: Saturday 2 October 2010: 10am – 4pm Fee: £45 / £40 pp
Come along with your sewing machine and join Linda and a group of like-minded stitchers and unpick the mysteries of free Machine Embroidery. Bring along a drawing, picture or a photograph that inspires you. Using a sumptuous array of threads in a variety of colours and thickness and working with your own sewing machine, you will learn how to translate your original design into your very own picture of stitches, jewellery item or embroidery piece.
Linda has produced a new book entitled Creative Machine Embroidery, which is full of pictures and projects to make. Available on Amazon.
Mono printing (Leicester Print Studio Workshop course)
Tutor: Claire Morris Wright Date & Time: Saturday 9 October 2010: 10am – 4pm Fee: £55 (£50 concessions) pp
Create unique, colourful and textural prints with this immediate printmaking technique that sees the participant rolling colours and using stencils.
Tutor: Ruth Singer www.ruthsinger.com Date & Time: Wednesday 13 October 2010: 2.30pm – 4.30pm Fee: £10 pp
Create a quirky cute little felt purse made from recycled wool jumpers. Decorate with hand stitching, embroidery and appliqué. You could also make a techno-cosy for you phone, camera.
‘Block’ Hat-Making Workshop in Felt or Straw
Tutor: Jenny Adey (from London) Date & Time: Saturday 13 November 2010: 9am – 4pm Fee: £38 / £33 pp (higher quality felt/straw hat will cost £10 extra pp)
Due to popularity and success of last year’s day we welcome back hat maker Jenny Adey. Jenny was Head of the Hat and Jewellery Department of the Royal Opera House for 20 years. Today she will help you take home a stylish hat in the material and colour of your choosing using the ‘block’ technique. You will create a hat with a crown and wide brim, choosing either a round crown or square-topped crown and curved or sloping brim.
Handmade Embroidered Bag
Tutor: Kumi Middleton www.kumimiddleton.co.uk Date & Time: Saturday 27 November 2010: 10am – 4pm Fee: £38 / £33 pp
Make a simple shape bag with machine-embroidered pattern. Participants will chose the shape of the bag according to their ability, for example triangle for intermediate, cylinder for beginner. You will make a bag from scratch, making or copying the pattern, cutting the fabric, design and decorate the surface by using machine embroidery, then constructing the bag. Again, depends on the participants ability, surface pattern can be adapted. Suitable for those with sewing machine experience.
Kusadama Orb Workshop
Tutor: Phiona Richards www.rarenotions.co.uk Date & Time: Saturday 11 December 2010: 10am – 4pm Fee: £38 / £33 pp
Here is the perfect opportunity to experience first-hand the delights of origami. Phiona will take you through the basics of origami, showing you some simple folds to create an exquisite sculptural piece that will take pride of place in your home during the festive season.
