15 Apr 2012

Summer Art Classes, Courses and Workshops



Bookings now being taken - please contact me via the BOOKING FORM in the first instance or email me with any queries. All classes, courses and workshops run by Josie Tipler.

UPDATE - some classes cancelled due to insufficient bookings, see below for classes still running. If you are unable to make a class but would be interested in some individual tuition (prices start at £12) please get in touch.

Drawing and Painting Pet Portraits from photographs
Tuesdays 7-9pm
21 August cancelled, 28 August cancelled
Other one to one sessions available - please ask for fees and possible dates.

Tuesdays, 7-9pm 

We will look at planning the initial sketches, how to get shapes and proportions correct, different mediums including pencil, chalk pastel, acrylics on paper and on canvas, and will concentrate on details including eyes, fur, paws etc. I will provide reference pictures but you are also encouraged to bring your own pictures.

Location – Pickhams in Wilmington. Limited number of spaces.
£6 per person per session. Bring your own materials and equipment.
You may book for individual sessions but be aware that we will cover different aspects on each session which will not be repeated.

Chalk Pastel, Breaking the rules!
Saturdays 10am – 1pm
4 August, [11 August cancelled], 18 August, 25 August

We will look mainly at still life work, using pastels to sketch onto large sheets of paper and concentrating on interesting form, shape, texture and colour rather than the technical skills such as perspective.
                                                                                   
Location – Pickhams in Wilmington. Limited number of spaces.
£9 per person per session. Bring your own materials and equipment.
You may book for individual sessions but be aware that we will cover different aspects on each session which will not be repeated.


CLASS - Vorticists, Black & White designs
Friday, 3 August 2012
2-5 pm

We will look at some the works of the Vorticists including Wyndham_lewis
and will create a design in a similar style using black ink and a brush or pen

Location: Pickhams, Wilmington
£9 per person. Bring your own materials and equipment.


Garden scenes
Wednesdays, 10am – 1pm
[8 August - cancelled due to weather], 15 August, 22 August, 29 August

Wednesdays, 10am – 1pm 

Working in the gardens of Pickhams in Wilmington, we will look at sketching in pencil, pastel and charcoal, working up to a finished piece in the medium of your choice.

Location: Pickhams in Wilmington – outdoors in the gardens. Weather dependant. In the event of bad weather we can work inside from photographs but space will be limited.
£9 per person per class. Bring your own materials and equipment.
(If you would like just to come and paint - £2.50 without tuition)

CLASS - Printing with Polystyrene and Acrylics
Friday, [10 August 2012  cancelled][I ate all that pizza for nothing :)]
2-5 pm

Using acrylic paint and polystyrene pizza bases we will put recycling to the ultimate artistic challenge! We will work up sketches then ‘engrave’ the designs into polystyrene then produce prints in one or 2 colours depending on time.
Bring your own acrylic paints, brushes, pencils, sketching paper and paper to print on. I will provide the pizza bases (it’s a tough job but someone has to do it).

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington
£9 per person. 

CLASS - Pencil details - eyes, hands, feet
Friday, 17 August 2012 - only a few places left
2-5 pm

Using photographs and self-portraits we will look at those tricky details using graphite pencil on cartridge paper. Bring a mirror.

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington
£9 per person.  Bring your own materials and equipment.


CLASS - Textured seascapes in acrylics
Friday, 24 August 2012
2-5 pm

Using acrylics on canvas board with either texture paste or pollyfilla, we will create a textured sunset seascape from reference photos.

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington
£9 per person.  Bring your own materials and equipment.

Workshops - WORKING LARGE!
Thursdays 7-9 pm
2 August, 9 August, 16 August, 23 August

Arlington Arts Group – Stand alone Art sessions and workshops

Working on landscapes (from photos) or still life on A1 sheets of paper and mountcard using acrylics, oil pastels or chalk pastels. Loosening up, being bold with form and colour, sketching with a brush.
.
Location – Arlington Village Hall. Limited number of places
£6 per person per session (£4 for Arlington Arts Group regulars). Bring your own materials and equipment – tables provided but you may want to bring a board and easel. You may book for individual sessions. Please note that Arlington Arts Group regulars may still come along to the usual art sessions and not take part in the workshop.

NB: Children (8-15) are welcome to take part in the classes when accompanied each by an adult. Full fees apply to adults and children.

No comments:

Post a Comment

feedback...