Workshops
Chelsea School of Art Fine Art graduate Louise Garman regularly runs fun, hands on, creative and expressive art workshops for adults, from beginners to advanced. She has run these classes everywhere from cruise ships to local community and art gallery settings, to private social gatherings.
Louise offers the following workshops to choose from…
Learn the art of Sumi-e or traditional Chinese painting. From birds, to flowers and landscapes using individual brush strokes on rice paper. You will learn different brushstrokes and be given different exercises to practice the art of Chinese painting. You will then create one/two paintings to take home. These final pieces can include blossom trees, bamboo sticks and leaves, or maybe a mountain scenery.
In this Watercolour painting workshop you will get the chance to create a colour wheel and learn about colour mixing and colour theory. You will also learn about graded washes using both wet on wet and dry brush techniques. For the beginners who lack confidence, Louise will provide images and worksheets to work from. For the more advanced students, she will provide a still life to work directly from.
The amazing colour wheel, then using pencil to produce a drawing, and transforming this into an abstract painting on canvas linked to emotion and feelings. All levels.
In this printmaking workshop, you will design and print your very own monoprint. Monoprint is a straightforward and exciting way of producing printed images directly from a perspex plate. These create images that are bold, direct, creative and unique to you. There are different types of monoprints, and you will be able to try out each one.
You can bring with you sketchbooks, photographs and images to use and inspire your prints. Also, you can bring items to create prints and textures such as feathers, leaves, doilies etc.
Beginners, the more advanced, and everyone in between can come together for a How to Draw workshop in which you can expect to learn or enhance your line, tone, texture and composition.