Painting and Drawing Courses

Tuesday mornings and afternoons, Wednesday afternoon and Tuesday evening courses of two hour duration available. Saturday morning four hour duration available and full day 7½ hour courses numbers permitting.

1. Drawing for the terrified
with Robert Gellion. Beginners, conquer your fear of putting pencil to paper! All equipment included in the price.

2. Watercolour for the terrified
with Robert Gellion. Beginners, overcome your fear of putting brush to paper! All equipment included in the price.

3. Watercolour for pleasure
with Robert Sharples. Re-discover the pleasant art of watercolour and improve your technique. Equipment not included.

4. Drawing and painting for pleasure
with Robert Sharples. Re-discover the pleasant art of drawing and painting and improve your technique. Equipment not included.

6. Acrylic for beginners
with Robert Gellion and Robert Sharples . Learn the basic techniques of this enjoyable art. All equipment included in the price.

10. Oil painting for improvers and beginners
with Rita Mitchell. A few simple rules will get you going and enable you to enjoy working with oils. Demonstrations and examples form the basis of early classes but you will be painting right from the start. Understanding of colour to create mood and atmosphere will be an important part of this course. Equipment not included in the price.

 

Textile Arts Courses

Patchwork Quilting and Applique etc. Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening two hour duration available. Saturday mornings half day - four hours Coming soon full day 7½ hour courses, numbers permitting.

5. Patchwork and quilting
with Greta Fitchett. Learn and develop basic techniques in these skills can include applique and hand and machine embroidery. Advanced technique courses available on request. Equipment not included

7. Machine Knitting
Knitwear is fashionable! Got a knitting machine and want to make use of it? Want to learn how to use it? Want to improve your skills and follow patterns and make full use of it? Join this course with Angela Urbaniak knitwear designer and design and make your own comfortable trendy knitwear.

8. Decorative soft furnishings
with Jennifer Sanderson and Greta Fitchett. Using basic patchwork,quilting, applique and touches of simple embroidery, make up to date and trendy looking cushions, a throw, a wall hanging or canvas art piece to exhibit your skills in textile arts for your own home setting, contemporary or traditional.

Other textile art skills courses and advanced courses are available on request, e.g.applique, quilting, felt making, silk painting, embroidery hand and machine.

Unless otherwise stated, equipment is not included in the price.

Equipment and materials list is available for each workshop session

Some equipment and materials can be purchased on the day of the workshop

Other textile arts and crafts courses are available so please do ask so we can bring the course onto the timetable, numbers permitting. DO ASK

Other Art Skill Courses

Daytime or evening course two hours duration available on request

6.Digital photography
Improve your digital phortography skills using Adobe Photoshop and develop it for your own canvas art pieces. Your digital art can be directly transferred to a canvas or used as the base for your own painting developments.
Bring your camera and photograph discs. Use of CAD equipment included in the price. Consumables e.g discs,paper and printing extra.

Digitization to canvas to be paid by student cost according to to size. From £30 to £300 30x30cm (12"x12") to 244x122cm (96"x48")

9.Composition in photography

Improve your ability to take pictures learn the mechanics and build an artistic skill to compose better pictures and leave less to chance.

Saturday morning four hour courses available.

 

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Rita Mitchell & Creative Space featured in Breeze February edition

New Oil Painting with Rita Mitchell

New Painting and Drawing with Robert Sharples every Tuesday evening

New "Get Started" Half day of patchwork, applique and quilting for beginners with Greta Fitchett Sat10th March

New "Get Started" Half day of Composition In Your Photography with Mike Fitchett Sat10th March

Painting and Drawing with Robert Sharples & Robert Gellion every Tuesday & Wednesday daytime

Patchwork for beginners with Greta Fitchett every Monday

Machine Knitting with Angela Urbaniak

Digital Photography and Canvas Art Printing using photoshop


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