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Try
it....
Mondays 10.30am -12.30pm
An opportunity to try our new material & kits
Experiment with new products & get help or advice
Make-it Sundays
from 10.30 - 12.00
A fun hands-on arts & crafts morning for children of any age
...... and a Sunday special hot drink & toast at £2.00
for accompanying adults.
Just Jewellery
with Liz Welch
Pendants, earrings, beads & more using friendly plastic, wire and
a sense of adventure! Ideas & techniques to get excited about.
Kebab Stick Book
With Pat Shearing
Learn this traditional technique of bookmaking and give it a contemporary twist to create a very individual piece to be used to record a special occasion or information.
Saturday 19 April
Both days from 10.30 - 12.30
Advanced Wire & Bead Crochet
With Alysn Midgelow-Marsden
Push your skills in this versatile craft that bit further …….
Learn to draw in a Day
With Maggie Smith
This is an intensive course to get quick results. The day is designed to give you drawing exercises that will soon help you gain access to the right ‘artistic’ side of the brain so you will be looking and ‘seeing’ in the way a trained artist does, which will enable you to draw. Because of the way the day is planned, you will be able to see the progress you have made during the day. All you need is a willingness to learn and work hard to achieve amazing results in one day.
Create Recycled Tin Fantasy Creatures
With Ros Clark
You will be guided on a ‘shamanic’ journey to find your power animals, which will then be transformed into 3 dimensional forms using recycled aluminium (tin cans).
China Painting with a Floral Twist
With Liz Hobday
Be inspired by our current Flower Power exhibition and spend the day creating highly individual & decorative ‘floral’ pieces of china. Liz will supply all that is required for a wonderful introduction into this highly individual skill.
Life Drawing
With Tiggy Coxon
An opportunity to explore a range of different approaches to drawing the figure using pencil and charcoal on cartridge paper. Measurement of the figure, quick sketches, exploring the contour of the figure and drawing using continuous line. Poses will last between 5 minutes and 40 minutes. More experienced students may wish to plan their own approaches for the session with regard to type of media they wish to explore.
Modge Podge Sunflower Vase
With Nikki Whitlock
Modge Podge is a sealer, glue & glaze all in one, non-toxic and dries in 10mins, can be worked on most surfaces, including glass & metal, and dries completely see through – finishes products with a shimmering lustre. These vases are created using beautiful shear materials; organza, tissue paper, raw silk etc. Nikki specialises in all mediums of collage. Suitable for beginners.
Wire & Bead Jewellery
With Hazel Atkinson
This workshop will inspire and excite you. Hazel’s flamboyant style will encourage you to create amazing pieces of jewellery utilising her skilled techniques with wire and beads.
Mixed Media - Layers For Backgrounds
With Alysn Midgelow-Marsden
Use an exciting mixture of different paints, resists and glazes, make your own stamp blocks and creatively use pre-formed stamps, embellish with embossing powders and texture gels to create densely layered and textured background fabrics for stitching and beading later. Expect to get messy and finish the day with plenty of experimental surfaces.
Monochrome Batik
With Andrew Wynne
Using the current exhibition ‘mOnOchrOme’ as inspiration …..An exciting workshop exploring discharge-dyeing, a unique Batik application using wax resist and bleach, with the designs becoming progressively lighter with each application. This technique enables the artist to respond to their chosen subject matter with spontaneity whilst allowing subtle changes to be made.Traditional cultural designs and techniques will be taught alongside more modern approaches
Contemporary Crazy Patchwork
With Sally Cotterill
Information to be updated - it will be good though.....
China Painting with a Monochrome Twist
With Liz Hobday
Using the current exhibition ‘mOnOchrOme’ as inspiration ….. spend the day creating strikingly individual pieces of china. Liz will supply all that is required for a wonderful introduction into this highly individual skill.
Monochrome Drawing with Felt
With Jo Brudenell
Using the current exhibition ‘mOnOchrOme’ as inspiration ….. Using only black and white merino woollen fibres you will learn how to draw completing a work suitable for framing. The day will begin with looking at the work of artists , such as Matisse, who captured the figure with a minimal line.
Create a Teepee Table Light
With Pat Shearing
Learn the technique of willow structuring and decorate with special hand made paper to create a table lamp to brighten those leisurely summer evenings. Skeleton leaves can be used to adorn or bring along your own items to incorporate into your design. All materials supplied, beginners welcome.
Deconstruct & Reconstruct an Apron
With Priscilla Jones
Using an old apron or pinnie of your own, you will explore the possibilities of giving this item a new lease of life by making it into an art object by deconstructing the surface then reconstructing it by using paint, machine and hand-stitch techniques. This is a very experimental workshop so be prepared to explore innovative possibilities by applying paint and stitch to your apron - your apron should look unrecognizable by the end of the day, we hope!
To
book places on any of our courses...
Please contact us at the gallery via post, telephone or email
The Beetroot Tree
South Street, Draycott, Derbyshire, DE72 3PP
Tel: 01332 873929
Email: info@thebeetroottree.com
£10.00 per course,
non-refundable deposit with your credit or debit card details or full
payment will be required when booking.
Full details of requirements and any materials costs will be forwarded
with your
booking confirmation.
Cancellations
If we are unable to run the workshop your deposit and payment will be
refunded.
To cancel your booking please provide three weeks notice to ensure a refund
(not including deposit). Less
then 3 weeks notice will result in full payment being deducted.