Art Course
with Jamie Boots 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
On this 2-day course you will learn all about working with graphite pencil from experienced artist Jamie Boots.
Graphite pencil can be used to produce so much more than just a sketch.
Jamie will show participants that whether or not you are using a pencil that is blunt or sharp, pressing lightly or hard, or using a variety of tones, that the effect of fur, the texture of skin and the glassy look of an eye can be achieved.
The subject for this art course will be: Zebra
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
Materials List
All materials will be supplied free of charge to use during the course by Jamie Boots.
Artist’s Profile
Originally from New Zealand, Jamie is a self taught artist whose work is produced in
graphite pencil. Jamie first exhibited his work in 2004 and has won a number of awards for his artwork.
In a very short period of time a hobby became a profession and with a limited number of originals being available each year his drawings have become highly collectable.
www.jamieboots.com
Art Course 
with Ian Coleman
Maximum Participants: 12
The iPad is a great concept sketching tool for conventional paintings, creating hybrid digital images or full digital works.
On this 1-day course Ian will familiarize you with the application Procreate. He will go through its functions and you will learn how to, import and export your work, import brushes, create brushes and create artworks in various styles from graphic lines to photo-real brushwork.
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers
Materials List
iPad iOS 9.1 or later
Stylus
Chargers
Procreate App installed (currently costs £4.49 from the App Store as of Nov 2015. File size 95.9MB)
You will need to ensure that you have at least 1GB of space on your iPad, so that you can download content from the artist before the course.
Artist’s Profile
Ian Coleman is a professional artist and over the last 32 years has produced gallery artworks in acrylics and oils, illustrations and graphic designs for books and advertising.
For last 10 years Ian has run weekend courses on oil painting, watercolours and acrylic
techniques. He is well known for his natural history paintings with a particular interest in marine-life.
www.colemangallery.com
Wallsworth Art Group
Join the art group as they explore the mediums of charcoal and pastels, both different but very expressive art forms. Each member of the group will be able to explore the effects that can be achieved with the mediums and begin to produce their own mixed media drawing.
There is an optional £1 supplement for this event.
Art Course
with Simon Williams 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
The 2-day course will focus on botanical painting, giving you the opportunity to work with alternative mediums such as gouache or acryl gouache. Taking the course in
watercolour is also available if you would prefer to stick to a familiar medium.
Throughout this course you will be guided in colour mixing, botanical accuracy and the most important skills to gaining three dimensional forms to botanical studies.
This course is open to all levels but a precise rather than loose style of painting will be
required.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List
Click here for the full material’s list for this course.
Artist’s Profile
Simon is one of the country’s leading botanical artists and Course Director for the Society of Botanical Artists Distance Learning Diploma Course. He is listed in the 35th Edition of Who’s who in Art.
Through his business, SW Illustrations, Simon has worked for some of the largest advertisement branding agencies such as JDO Brand Design and Innovation, Tangible Advertising Agency and freelance for magazines, publishers and wildlife art agencies/studios.
www.swillustrations.com
Art Course
with Jackie Garner 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
Vibrant colours, permanent, waterproof, transparent or opaque; acrylic inks give the artist a myriad of options in their work.
This 2-day course will explore the possibilities for both realistic and abstract paintings using acrylic inks. You will experiment with different methods of applying the ink and cover working with layers of colour, wet into wet, detail, and usage with other media.
No prior knowledge of working with acrylic inks is necessary.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Jackie Garner trained at Medway College of Design before becoming Nature in Art’s first education officer. She is now a professional artist who specialises in portraying wildlife, taking inspiration from encountering wildlife in its natural habitat.
Jackie teaches and lectures regularly, and is a contributor to Artists & Illustrators magazine. She has exhibited with many art societies, including the National Exhibition Wildlife Art, the Society of Wildlife Artists, BirdScapes
Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and has held solo exhibitions in
London and Gloucestershire. Jackie is the author and illustrator of The Wildlife Artist’s Handbook.
Jackie is happy to discuss the course with students. Visit her website for contact details:www.jackiegarner.co.uk
Wallsworth Art Group
Join the art group as they listen to Cath Hodsman who will be exploring the wonderful world of insects, butterflies and moths. Cath has a passion for insects and will share her reasons why and the techniques behind her detailed interpretations.
Find out more about Cath, here
Art Course
with Furzie (Michelle Hickman) 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 10
On this 1-day course you will learn how to needle-felt with wool.
You will be introduced to the basics of needle-felting, taught how to make a wire armature to form the basis of your sculpture and how to mould the wool to the frame.
You will be amazed how the wool sculpture seems to develop a character of its own. Once you have become confident in using the basic skills and techniques you are only limited by your imagination!
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List
A materials pack will be supplied by Michelle Hickman, at the cost of £15 per participant, payable directly to her on the day. The materials pack will include a felting kit and tools to keep, plus all the wool and materials required.
Artist’s Profile
Michelle taught herself needle-felting and, for several years now, has been selling sculptures and commissions of her animals all over the world, as well as running courses and workshops.
She enjoys passing on her love of wool and needle-felting and is keen to share what she has learned.
www.furzie.co.uk
Art Course
with Tor Hildyard 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 8
Explore the mysteries behind the Collagraph Print on this 1-day course.
Learn how to make your own unique prints from plates created from mount card, which is incised with lines, collaged with paper and other textured mediums to create an exciting textured printing surface.
You will be shown how to prepare paper and how to ink up and wipe your plates ready for printing. The first part of the course will be spent making the plate and then the second will be spent printing in different ways to create your own unique print.
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List
A sketch/photograph you want to work from.
Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty!
Drawing materials i.e. pencils, rubber, paintbrushes.
All other materials will be provided by Tor Hildyard, at the cost of £10 per participant, payable directly to her on the day.
Artist’s Profile
Tor is a prize winning printmaker, who shows her work both nationally and internationally. Tor is interested in experimenting with new techniques, images and printing methods which allows her to challenge the boundaries of printmaking and enables her to produce the right marks and textures that relate to each subject matter.
Tor worked as a Printmaking tutor and technician at UCA, Maidstone, Kent, after finishing her degree. She later returned to achieve an Masters in Printmaking in 2010.
She now runs her own private printmaking courses from her studio in Worcestershire.
www.torhildyard.moonfruit.com
Join the art group as they have a go at speed sketching. This is a fun and entertaining evening, where observational skills and skill with a pencil will be all important.
An evening with a difference!
Art Course
with Jonathan Newey 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This 2-day course will show you how to draw colourful bird portraits with coloured pencil.
Using photographs supplied by the tutor you will be shown how to draw eyes, feathers and bright colours using techniques such as blending, layering, colour mixing and shading. Each exercise will be demonstrated step by step and the tutor will be on hand to provide group and individual constructive criticism.
By the end of the course you will have produced a few bird portraits to take home.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List
All materials will be supplied by Jonathan Newey, at a cost of £20 per participant,
payable directly to him on the day.
Artist’s Profile
Jonathan Newey is an award winning artist with over 20 years of experience in teaching in adult education.
He is well known nationally for his coloured pencil drawings of animals and is a founder member of the UK Coloured Pencil Society.
www.jonathannewey.com