Drop in for a SUPER cute and fun session making charm bracelets! There will be 100s of charms to choose from, chains and all the materials and tools you need.
Chains and charms are £1 each, you just pay for what you use!
Get your ticket to reserve your place and drop in any time between between 6.30 and 8.30pm to make your very own charm bracelet.
In this workshop you will look at yourself or other participants more closely by drawing a (self-)portrait with oil pastels. The aim is to capture the essence of your subject rather than about getting every detail to look right and take inspiration from impressionistic artists like Monet and Renoir.
If you would like some guidance, I am happy to give any tips and pointers.
Oil pastels and paper are provided but feel free to bring your own materials. I will also bring a small mirror for self portraits but you can use photographs for references as well.
A large exhibition of oils, watercolours, acrylics, felting, print making, life-drawing, wood carvings, etc.
This year there will be several hands-on demonstrations during the exhibition such as:
Charcoal Drawing
Ukrainian Painting
Felting 2D bird
There is also a large selection of crafts and cards.
Voice of the Fans, the new exhibition curated by Leeds Libraries and the British Library, explores the raw creativity of football fanzines that were born out of the DIY ethos of the music and punk scenes.
Join Matt Lidbury from Lower Block, a photography zine that celebrates football culture, for an informal Q+A about creating a unique, independently produced publication that celebrates style, design, architecture and photography.
Join us for a taster session exploring linocut relief printing techniques and print a range of your own greeting cards, or designs onto paper.
Your tutor will guide you through designing an image for linocut. You will be shown how to carve the lino block, apply the inks, and print it – both with our traditional Albion and Imperial relief printing presses, and burnishing by hand. You will be shown examples of lino prints and advice on the kind of designs that work best.
Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.
The course will teach you the fundamentals of screen printing onto paper, introduce you to the equipment and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. By the end of the course, you will be able to use various stencil making techniques and understand their effects. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens.
Explore the beautiful photographic process of cyanotype to create your own cyan-blue prints.
You will learn how to produce a set of cyanotypes where thin objects or acetates are placed directly onto specially-coated paper and then exposed to UV light. When these objects are removed and the paper is washed with water a blue image remains. You will also learn how to use a variety of effects called toning, intensifying and reducing which alters the blue-ness of the prints.
Explore screen printing using paper stencils on this one-day workshop.
Get to grips with our fantastic screen printing facilities and learn the basics of screen printing onto paper.
You will use paper stencil methods to print multi-layered prints, experimenting with transparent inks to produce interesting layers and outcomes. Handcut stencils allow you to work quickly and you’ll make a handful of layers throughout the day.
Explore the basics of letterpress and work with traditional wood type and metal type to create a series of printed posters and postcards.
You’ll have the opportunity to use our wood type collection to create text and backgrounds using our historic Albion press and galley proofing presses. You’ll also work with our metal type to set your own smaller lines of type and use our Adana presses and equipment.