A day of drawing – whether you are using this time to develop your practice, or you just want to escape for the day in your own creativity.

Running one Saturday a month, All Day Draw is a day of Untutored life drawing.

Paper, boards, easels and charcoal provided, but you are also welcome to bring your own materials. Non-solvent based paints are welcome, but please add a note to your booking if you plan to bring paint.

All abilities welcome.

10.30am – 3.30pm with a 30 min lunch break

Tea, coffee and biscuits provided

An Untutored Portrait Session at Leeds Drawing Club.

- Clothed Seated Model, set and lit for portraits

- 3 hour pose, ideal for painting

- Small class size - capped at 7 places (capacity is 11)

12pm - 3pm

A great opportunity to work on a single pose for 3 hours. Develop your practice further and work alongside like-minded artists.

Painters are welcome, please use odourless solvents only.

Under the careful guidance of Louise, during this workshop your skills will be developed to enable you to create more complex designs, improve your techniques and explore more unusual materials such as paper, balsa wood and different fabrics.

In this session led by professional textile artist Louise, you will bring a favourite piece of text – a quote, saying, extract from a book, letter, email, poem or similar as a starting point to create a piece of unique textile art.

Firstly, you’ll learn different methods to translate writing into hand embroidery – including how to exactly copy handwriting of others, which is an excellent way to create a treasured keepsake.

Embroidery doesn't just have to be on a fabric base - many other materials can be used instead, adding a new and exciting dimension to embroidered artwork.

The morning will be spent with Louise exploring each of the intriguing and unusual materials thoroughly – what the limitations and possibilities are, the more practical skills of embroidering directly into these materials and how to combine them with other materials and fabric.

You’ll create a series of small samples to refer back to and inspire future textile work.

Under the careful guidance of Louise, you will be creating artful embroidery on beautifully hand dyed fabrics created exclusively in her studio.

Using a combination of slow stitch and embroidery sampler stitching styles. You'll begin the workshop by learning a selection of hand embroidery stitches that make up the back bone of all other embroidery stitches - both how to embroider these traditionally and then altering them to make new and interesting effects. You'll embroider away with new stitches being taught as needed.