Design your own Canvas Shoes with Adriana Roberts
Saturday 27 July 2019
10am to 12 noon or 2 to 4pm
Age: Universal (supervised) 10+ (unsupervised) Teens & Adults
Cost: £25 for first pair (see below for offer)
OFFER: shoes are then discounted to £15, for each adult/sibling on same booking
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
No Experience Necessary – All Welcome.
Become a fashion designer for the day and create your very own pair of canvas shoes, you could even have matching family ones for all – big and small!
This workshop has everything you need to create your footwear masterpieces, including your own, good quality, pair of canvas trainers, fabric paints, fabric markers, silhouette sticker stencils and paintbrushes.
A lovely, fun and creative way to spend time as a family and leave with something useful as well!
Marbling with Inks with Serena Nickson
Saturday 3 August 2019
10am to 2pm
Age: Adults & Teens
Cost: £25 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Marbling with inks is an exciting technique, which enables you to produce wonderful colours and patterns on good quality paper. Part of the fun is never knowing what you’re going to get and experimenting with lots of different marbling techniques! You will start by practising with a selection of A5 paper and then move onto A4 paper – once dried, they can be used to cover notepads, journals, frames and other craft items.
Bug Hotel: Foraging Field Trip with Donna and Maria Lewis
Sun 4 August 2019
10am to 2pm
Age: Universal – all ages (under 10yrs supervised) Teens & Adults
Cost: £20 first booking (bug hotel included)
Discount: all further places in your booking £10 each
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
During this exciting half-day ‘foraging field trip’, kids will have the opportunity to visit a local woodland and collect materials to construct their own bug hotel. With bark, moss, ivy and twigs, bamboo, pine cones and ferns, kids will learn about what environments insects like to live in, which materials work best and how to construct and reinforce their bug hotel, so it will last.
Manga Poster Day with Donna Lewis
Wednesday 7 August 2019
10am – 2pm
Age: 8+yrs, teens, adults (unsupervised)
Cost: £35 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
All Levels Welcome – No Experience Necessary.
This one day workshop is for anyone with a love of drawing Manga characters. We will cover traditional Manga drawing techniques, focusing on facial features, costume, props and backgrounds. Having learnt the basics and planned your character’s design in the morning, students will then spend the afternoon producing their poster. There will be lots of step-by-step instructions, and useful tips on how to create your manga characters and setting.
Acrylic Paint Pour with Caroline Moore
THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT!
Saturday 10 August 2019
10am to 2pm
Age: Adults & Teens
Cost: £35 (all materials included)
Join Caroline Moore, for a hands-on workshop in Abstract Fluid Acrylic Pouring. During this workshop Caroline will demonstrate how to prepare acrylic paint for pouring, and will discuss a variety of different methods to perform an acrylic pour, for example: puddle pours, ribbon pours and flipcup techniques.
Location Photography Day for Teens with Donna Lewis
Wednesday 14 August 2019
10am to 3pm
Age: 12+, Teens
Cost: £40
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
No Experience Necessary – All Welcome!
Learn how to use your digital camera confidently and creatively. This is a fun and challenging workshop, part theory, part practical.
Teens will learn about their camera settings and how to use them to strengthen composition, focusing and aesthetic skills, as well as produce exciting and dynamic photos.
You need to bring your own digital camera, any camera will do – from a point & shoot to a DSLR (no camera phones).
Intro to Pyrography on Wood with Naomi Lunn
Sunday 18 August 2019
11am to 4pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £50 (all materials included, plus box or frame)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Learn how to create a detailed drawing onto wood, using a pyrography tool to control depth, thickness of line and tonal depths of shading. Have fun creating a unique design, which can either become a framed piece or a wooden box to take home at the end of the session.
Create your own Bird Feeder with Maria Lewis
Mon 19 August 2019
10am to 12 noon
Age: All Ages (supervised)
Cost: £7 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
This workshop is for you and your kids to get creative together! Come along and spend the morning with Maria, using recycled materials, to design and construct a fun and weatherproof bird feeder – perfect for any garden, allotment or, window sill.
Flora and Fauna Fused Glass with Nicky Clarke
Tues 20 August 2019
10am to 12:30pm or 1:30 to 4pm
Age: 12+ & Adults
Cost: £35 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Create a flora, fauna or woodland scene, using opaque and transparent glass frits, copper foils and wire. Your design will be initially drawn on paper, to scale, and then used for a guide to make your final piece. Your finished creation will be 17x12cms and will be taken away to be fired and then returned to City Arts within two weeks.
Screw post Book Binding with Donna Lewis
Sunday 1 September 2019
10am to 4pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £50 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
An introduction to the Screw-Post Book-Binding technique. Donna will demonstrate the binding technique, the tools used and the different materials and papers. Then she will take you through each step of the book’s construction, offering tips and advice to create a beautifully bound book. Screw-post is an excellent binding method, where you can continue to add pages to the book that will last for years.
Silver Ring in a Day with Cathy Newell Price
Saturday 7 September 2019
10am to 4pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £75 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
A fantastic introduction to the art of silver jewellery. During the workshop, you will plan, design and create a wide-band silver ring. Learn basic jewellery making skills, including texturing and making marks in metals, cutting out using a piercing saw, hammering, bending & shaping silver, joining by silver soldering, finishing and polishing. Come away wearing a silver ring that you have made yourself.
Art Course for Kids #3 with Sarah Moorcroft
Mondays 9,16,23 September, 7 &14 October 2019
4:30 to 6pm
Age: 7+
Cost: £100 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
This art course is suitable for children interested in all forms of art. It provides the opportunity for students to discover their artistic talent, indulge their passion for art and explore their creativity. They will try a variety of painting, printing and drawing techniques using various mediums, from pencil, charcoal and pastels, to watercolours and mixed media. Small class size allows 1:1 focused guidance and support.
Life Drawing with Louise Gunnersen
Sunday 15 September 2019
10am to 3pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £55 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Explore the pleasure of working directly from a model. Life drawing helps you understand composition, shape, tone and colour. It is a discipline that will help all who are interested in creative pursuits. Louise Gunnersen has twenty years of experience teaching from the model and will direct you as a class and as an individual. There will be a variety of poses, finishing with a long pose focusing on colour.
Plant Heads with Lone Hudson
Saturday 21 September 2019
10am to 3pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £50 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Have some fun making a head-shaped planting pot. Learn some fundamental, ceramic techniques including coiling, slab work and sculpting to create a characterful pot. No previous experience with ceramics is needed. Lone will take the work for firing to stoneware in her kiln, making them frost-proof, suitable for garden or indoor use. You can collect your pots from City Arts when ready at a later date.
Lightbox Papercuts with Pie Lady (Adriana Roberts)
Sunday 13 October 2019
10am to 4pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £45 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Offer: £5 off in you can bring your own kit of craft knife, blades and cutting matt.
Join this amazing silhouette, lightbox papercutting workshop, and learn lots of techniques, including layering and framing your wonderful masterpiece to achieve a stunning piece full of light and shadows, ready to take home. Choose your favourite template to cut on the day and receive lots of advice, tips and tricks of the trade. You don’t need to be an expert paper cutter to take part.
Life-size Skeleton Decoration with Adriana Roberts
Saturday 26 October 2019
10am to 12:30 pm
Age: All Ages (supervised)
Cost: £8 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Get ready to celebrate Halloween in style, with a life-size skeleton, designed to your body shape and size, including moveable, boney limbs! No previous cutting experience required and a perfect family experience to enjoy together. Don’t worry if you need any help, Adriana, the artist will be available to lend you a hand or a foot!
Embroidered Sugar Skulls with Libby Dee
Saturday 26 October 2019
10am to 12:30 pm or 1:30 to 4pm
Age: 10+ (unsupervised), Teens, Adults
Cost: £30 Adult, £10 for child/teen
(all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Learn embroidery skills to be able to make your own sugar skull decoration for Day of the Dead. Using felt, thread and a variety of embellishments such as buttons and sequins, you can create your own design to take home and even personalise it if you wish. You will learn a variety of hand stitching techniques throughout the workshop to continue your embroidery at home.
Fused Glass Halloween Monster Tile with Nicky Clarke
Tuesday 29 October 2019
10am to 12noon or 1 to 3pm
Age: 10+ (unsupervised), Teens, Adults
Cost: £15 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Design and create a unique monster fused glass tile using pre fused glass shapes, frits (crushed glass) and stringers (glass spaghetti!) Your glass monster will then be taken away for the kiln firing and returned to City Arts within two weeks for you to collect.
Day of the Dead: Door Hanging Decoration with Maria Lewis
Wednesday 30 October 2019
10am to 1pm
Age: All Ages (supervised)
Cost: £12 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
The perfect holiday workshop for the whole family to do together. Design and create your very own Sugar Skull door hanging, ready for your celebrations! Maria will be providing lots of materials for this workshop, including ribbons, feathers and a sugar skull image for the centre of your piece. You will also be taught how to make traditional Day of the Dead marigolds.
Halloween Craft Sessions with Sarah Moorcroft
Thursday 31 October 2019
10am to 12 noon or 1 to 3pm
Age: All Ages (supervised)
Cost: £8 (all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
There will be four activities to create: Spooky Cats, Tube Skeletons, Shadow Bats & Coffee Filter Silhouettes! Our messy, energetic sessions are all about family and friends getting creative and having fun together. Sarah will demonstrate how to create each activity – then you can move around the room at your own pace – spending as little or as long as you wish at each activity table.
Felt Soaps with Wendy Lloyd
Saturday 2 November 2019
10am to 1pm
Age: 8+ (supervised) Teens & Adults
Cost: £25
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
An extended version of this popular class which introduces the magic of felt-making.
You will transform fluffy merino wool ‘tops’ into a seamless fabric with easy to achieve decorative effects – colourful and dramatic or subtle depending on your taste. The attractive felted soaps with their built-in ‘mits’ make novel gifts and stocking fillers. You will go home with your felted soaps and some creative ideas for gift presentation.
Salt Dough Christmas Decorations with Adriana Roberts
Sunday 3 and Saturday 16 November 2019
10am to 12:30pm (each day)
Age: All ages (supervised)
Cost: £16 per person (for two-part workshop)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Get in the festive spirit with this two-part crafty family session! Make your dough shapes on the first week, so they are ready to an cut out and cook – create up to 5 shapes per family. The following week, add the paint, glitter, ribbon and much more, to make your decorations just like you imagined them – ready to hang on your tree or as the perfect, special gift to a friend or family member!
Festive Embroidered Baubles with Libby Dee
Sunday 3 November 2019
1:30 to 4:30pm
Age: 10+ (unsupervised), Teens, Adults
Cost: £35 Adult, £12 for child/teen
(all materials included)
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Get festive and learn embroidery skills to be able to make your own Christmas bauble. Throughout the workshop you will learn different hand stitching techniques and then take home your handmade bauble of your own design and even personalise it, if you wish!.
Printed Christmas Cards with Wendy Lloyd
Saturday 9 November 2019
10am to 3pm
Age: 8+ (supervised) Teens & Adults
Cost: £40
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
An extended version of this popular class. Learn how to make unique and stylish cards using easily attainable materials. Design and make your own printing blocks and experiment with print effects in the morning. Print and assemble your cards in the afternoon and go home with unique cards, plus your own printing blocks and handouts full of tips and tricks to help and inspire you.
Christmas Craft Session with Maria Lewis
Saturday 16 November 2019
1:30 to 3:30 pm
Age: All ages (supervised)
Cost: £12 per person
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
This is a fun and creative activity for all the family – of all ages! Create decorations for the holiday season, to be hung on your tree and around your home. During the session, you will be making: Jigsaw Reindeer, Polyball Penguins, Dolly-peg Snowmen and Scrabble Name Tags. This craft session is for all the family to get creative together, learn new skills and have some festive fun.
Papercut Christmas Baubles with Pie Lady
Saturday 17 November 2019
10am to 3pm
Age: Teens & Adults
Cost: £35
*To book e-mail: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Offer: £5 off if you can bring your own kit of craft knife, blades and cutting matt.
Make this Christmas special with a personalised, handmade bauble to be treasured and hung up for years to come! There are lots of templates to choose from, from beginner to advanced. You will receive a beautiful kit, to keep, with everything you need, including a craft knife, spare blades, a cutting mat, an exercise sheet, templates and a transparent bauble in its own gift box.
