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Workshops 2025
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Coffee and sketch at the Cosy Club - on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 10.00 till 12.30
2025 Workshops
Our workshops are a wonderful opportunity to try new techniques, upgrade your existing skills and have an enjoyable day with other members of the club. Please take note of materials to bring along.
Dates and details are still being confirmed - this page will be updated with the latest information!
Please email [email protected] to book a place
Our workshops are a wonderful opportunity to try new techniques, upgrade your existing skills and have an enjoyable day with other members of the club. Please take note of materials to bring along.
Dates and details are still being confirmed - this page will be updated with the latest information!
Please email [email protected] to book a place
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Sunday 26th January, 1.30pm - 4.30pm and
Sunday 16th February, 1.30pm - 4.30pm Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG Scott Bridgwood - Portrait workshops 15 places £30 per session Now booking! ‘Drawing is looking’, so in these two workshops we will explore a variety of ways of looking, including structure, anatomy, and light and shadow. Through a series of exercises, we will explore a variety of methods of seeing, and therefore drawing, a portrait from a live model. Scott will demonstrate a step-by-step method of drawing the portrait, looking at traditional and contemporary approaches. We will utilise a variety of media and drawing methods to respond to short and long poses. The first workshop will focus on drawing and the second will introduce colour. Although the workshops follow-on, separate bookings are accepted. For the January workshop participants will need drawing materials and plenty of A2 paper. For the February workshop please bring paint including the Zorn pallet (Black, White, Yellow ochre, Red), it being perfect for skin tones. See below for full list of materials. There is parking at Knighton Parish Centre (turn into Cademan Close next to the Centre.). Please bring your own flask of tea of coffee etc. Please arrive in time to set yourself up prior to the start of the workshop. Materials to bring:
About Scott Bridgwood: Scott Bridgwood is a working artist, based in Leicester, with over 30 years’ experience after graduating from Chelsea School of Art in 1992. After exhibiting around London, at a range of venues including The ICA and Westminster Gallery, he moved to Rome, where he taught art for 10 years. It was during his time in Rome he developed his passion for drawing / painting the human form. More recently, he has exhibited and sold widely across the Midlands and won various prizes, including the prestigious Windsor and Newton, Patchings and Windows On, amongst others. He teaches life drawing at Attenborough Arts Centre and De Montfort University. For more information see @bridgwoodscott on Instagram |
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Saturday 15th March, 10am - 4pm
Classroom at the Attenborough Arboretum 5-23 Carisbrooke Road Leicester LE2 3TQ Paul Talbot-Greaves – Loose Layers in Watercolour 12 places £50 Now booking! We are very excited to welcome back Paul Talbot-Greaves to give this workshop. Book early as it is likely to be very popular! The day will begin with a discussion of Paul’s layering technique based around five values. He will then do a demonstration, showing the layering process in watercolour to help achieve clarity and light in a painting. The layers make use of thin washes, wet into wet techniques and dry brush work, which when worked in a certain order, yield amazing results. About Paul “My passion for art began when I was five years old and that vision has never wavered throughout my life. Now into my 26th year as a full time painter, author, and tutor, I am proud to have my work distributed throughout the globe, with four published art books, and highly regarded as a popular tutor. In 2023 I was elected as a member of the Royal Institute Of Painters In Watercolours. My work varies between three disciplines of watercolour, acrylic and oil. My landscape work often reflects the rugged scenery of the Yorkshire hills where I live, drawing inspiration from historical connections using layers of colour, texture, shapes and patterns applied with energy and feeling. “ www.talbot-greaves.com About the venue: https://attenborougharboretum.com/ |
Summer Light by Paul Talbot Greaves
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Saturday 8th November, 10am - 3.30pm
Classroom at the Attenborough Arboretum 5-23 Carisbrooke Road Leicester LE2 3TQ Heather Harley – Mixed media abstract collage 10 places Fee £50.00 We are delighted to welcome back Heather to do a mixed media, mark making, abstract collage workshop. She will offer a playful morning of creating surfaces using a range of techniques including, low tech print, resist, stencil, automated drawing, sticks and ink etc. She suggests each participant chooses a colour palette 4/6 colours maximum, as a theme, and brings that with them. Then an afternoon creating and collating a series of collages from the materials made in the morning session. The overall aim of the workshop is for each person to create a series of 4-6 A4 abstract collages. There will be more information for participants nearer the date |
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