Author: artsandcraftsv

For each Wednesday please bring 🎨✏️🎉

table cover

apron

drawing board (at least A3 size, but it needs to be comfortable for you to carry)

masking tape

kitchen roll

old news paper, wet cloth, wipes

plastic bags to pop wet items in, and keep your work dry in case it’s wet outside!

I suggest: B-B8 pencils, sharpener

charcoal

sketch pad

drawing paper A3 size

pens

NB: It’s unlikely that we will start painting this week, so for the following weeks:-

painting materials: including a non-breakable paint pot for water,

acrylic paint

acrylic paper

brushes for acrylic paint

palette knife, 2 x palettes.

Cling film to pop over your pallets to take home so you can carry on using the paint.

An image/photo/etc that you would like to paint over the next few weeks.

When choosing your image bear in mind the frame size you would like to use for your finished painting.  Also choose the acrylic paint paper to fit the frame (preferably with an allowance for a mounting board too).

See you next Wednesday!

For those of you on existing classes now is the time to start gathering together your ideas, visions, and any research!

Treat yourself to a new sketch pad and begin to make some new marks with your various pencils (I recommend B to B8), charcoal and line pens.

For those of you on Art Workshop Class in Birmingham please collect images of portraits, whether photos of loved ones, heroes, magazine or newspaper images of someone, etc. Make sure it’s a clear image of your chosen person. Also, remember to bring a portable MIRROR.

For those of you on Vintage Crafts please gather ideas of an event in your life you would like to illustrate in textiles. You will need a base fabric, wadding, threads, needles, scissors, fabric glue, sketch pad, images, various off cuts of fabrics. Start thinking of colours you would like to help illustrate your event, colour co-ordination, what do the colours portray to you and others. We will discuss all on our first class back 😀 The piece can be small or large, just keep in mind sizes of frames (if you wish it to be framed!).

See you all soon!

How exciting, the new year 2018 is here! Only 9 days before the new art class starts at 9.30am on Wednesday 10th at The Beech House, 727 Warwick Road, Solihull, B91 3DA.

Come and join us and learn a new skill or increase your existing creativity, it a lovely way to start the new year!

Drop me a line on the Contact page.

Happy New Year 2018! 🎉🥂

The Beech House is in the town Centre opposite House of Fraser, near the WI Centre on Warwick Road. Plenty of public car parks near by, several bus stops near the venue, and just a short walk through the town from Solihull Train Station.

If you would like to save time and reserve your space by enrolling early please drop me a line on the Contact page so I can provide you with more details.

They are booked and paid in advance in 10 week blocks, allowing for ease of payment and to fit in with your lifestyle.

Look forward to hearing from you!

After collecting the printing yesterday, and a busy day today meeting and greeting lots of lovely keen folk I’ve arrived home with only a few of my new posters and leaflets left!

I’m so pleased, the printers did a good job yesterday and I had a great time at the weekend arranging some of my art materials and coloured paper on the floor and then taking photos to use as the base layer!  And… here they are in the flesh looking fab, they’ve gone down a storm!

Happy days!

Use the Contact page to drop me a line if you would like information on the class!