It’s been great to start online workshops during lockdown, and lovely to meet new people who are now able to join us from far and wide!
So if you aren’t quite ready to come back to the studio or too far away. Join us for the fab workshops from home.
We are also pleased to announce our new online Christmas workshops …
Christmas Printing – zoom workshop
Friday 4th December 10:00 – 12:30
£20 – includes zoom workshop, optional art pack (£15) and tutor support
Starting to feel Christmassy? Make a start by designing and printing your own wrapping paper, Christmas cards, tags, place names… Christmas printing on anything and everything!
£20 Christmas Printing – 4th December £15 Christmas Printing Kit
Paper Decorations – zoom workshop
Friday 11th December 10:00 – 12:30
£20 – includes zoom workshop, optional art pack (£10) and tutor support
Using papers from previous workshops or we can provide you with a pack, make your own beautiful paper decorations at home. You will never need to buy another bauble again!
£20 Paper Decorations – 11th December £10 Paper Decorations Kit
Online course – Make & fill your own sketchbook
An in depth, in your own time, 4 part, step-by-step guide of how to create and fill your own beautiful and very unique sketchbook, using a variety of making processes, experimental materials and alternative making methods.
Not date specific – do it at your own pace!
Click here for more information
£10 Make your own sketchbook
Our free online projects are all still available below.
There’s no deadline on any of them. Just pick one!
Online Project 1 – Postcard Project
Paint, draw, collage, print and maybe even sew into a postcard!
Create a postcard of something that makes you happy, a pet, spring flowers, pair of shoes, piece of cake …
email your postcards to pitchblue@outlook.com
View all the postcards in our virtual gallery
Online Project 2 – Egg or Stone painting.
Get creative and decorate eggs or stones to your heart’s content.
Decorate an egg or stone and photograph them on display!
Get the little ones to have a go!
email your decorated eggs/stones to pitchblue@outlook.com
We’ll be sharing all your eggs in our virtual gallery
Online Project 3 – magnify
Pause … give yourself a little time to look around at unexpected sources.
Spectacular colour or a suprising image will emerge.
Whether you are in the garden, sorting out a cupboard or on a tea break, take time to organise your observations.
Using an A4 piece of paper, make your own viewfinder.
Magnify your subject … (as with a close up lens).
Using media of your choice scale your magnified image to A4 and …
email your ‘magnified’ artwork to pitchblue@outlook.com
We’ll be sharing them all in our virtual gallery
Online Project 4 – Transform paper
Alter the surface … manipulate it … engineer it!
Some words to get you started …
Tear, cut, slash, fold, scrunch, weave,
punch, pierce, sand, roll, weave, burn, layer.
Use any paper you have, plain, printed, textured.
Paint your paper, before … or after!
Create different styles of image,
realistic, abstract, geometric, sculptural!
email your paper creations to pitchblue@outlook.com
We’ll be sharing them all in our virtual gallery