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20th of July - Mixed media with Jantien Powell 10-4pm at Highbury church hall in Cheltenham. Please note there are 2 workshops taking place at Highbury church hall on the same day, but in separate rooms. £60
This is a fun filled mixed media day and you will create a street scene. You will be using collage materials such as tissue paper and printed papers, then layering with acrylic inks and acrylic paints. We will use mark making items such as rollers and old credit cards, and finally a small paint brush. This workshop is great for discovering the effects that can be achieved using different tools, and learning to populate your pictures.
Materials needed:
kitchen roll, a canvas approx. 12"x16", 2B pencil, pva glue (supplied), pastel shades of tissue paper (supplied), acrylic inks in Prussian blue, magenta or pink and golden yellow. The artist uses liquitex Prussian blue, yellow orange azo and sennelier purple. These can be supplied at cost if needed. Seam rollers, small 1"wide used for wall papering, hard plastic not foam, these can be borrowed. old credit/store cards, a couple to cut up, water pots, a wide flat brush for throwing water around! Acrylic paints in various colours to include, white, black, yellow ochre, any green, blue, process magenta, turquoise and red. An old pinny and old clothes! Please note I can supply canvas and paints at a reasonable price if needed.
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24th of August - Wildflower meadow in soft pastels with Jackie Cox at The Boy's Brigade in Tewkesbury 10-4 pm £65.
Suitable for intermediate and above. Learn to create a beautiful wildflower meadow, applying layers of colour onto the paper so the picture has greater depth to it.
Jackie is an experienced tutor and artist having won awards.



21st of September - Orca whale painting workshop at The Boy's Brigade in Tewkesbury 10-4pm £65. You will work from the reference picture shown here, of magnificent Orcas in their natural environment. This workshop will involve many specialised techniques and colour mixing to capture these whales in an underwater situation. Suitable for watercolour of acrylic artists. Suitable for intermediate/advanced painters. Please bring what painting materials you have. A full list will be given nearer the time.
