Granary Studio

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Exploring Place

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Exploring Place

When

July 25, 2024 - July 27, 2024    
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
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Bookings

Bookings closed

Where

Granary Studio
Main Road, Owslebury, SO21 1LU

Associated Links

Exploring Place. Debbie Lyddon tutors this class, for more information about Debbie please visit www.debbielyddon.co.uk

Discover new ways of inspiring your creative work by using all of your senses to observe the world around you.  Part of this workshop will be spent outside – looking, listening and touching – to collect information from the environment. This material will be documented with drawing, sound recording and writing. Back in the studio your collections will form a starting point for experiments with paper, cloth, stitch, mark-making, collage and printing to create a unique and personal record of your exploration of place.

Dates, please take careful note

3 days  Thur-Sat 25-27 July 2024. Each day runs from 9.30-4.30 and tea, coffee, and biscuits are available throughout

Payment

£320 , a non-refundable deposit of half the fee , £160 will secure your place, on receipt of the deposit your place will be confirmed. The balance should be paid two weeks before the start of the class.

Requirements for Exploring Place

SEWING

  • Sewing Kit (needles -large and small scissors, tape measure, pins etc)
  • Sewing threads: black and white and 3 colours of your choice
  • Hand sewing thread in a range of thicknesses – black and white and 3 colours of your choice

Cloth

A variety of heavy and lightweight fabrics – an excellent choice would be:

  • Fat quarter white linen/cotton
  • Fat quarter white muslin
  • Fat quarter heavyweight cotton duck

A few other scraps of cloth that you enjoy using

 

DRAWING, PAINTING AND PRINTING

  • Soft pencil (6/8B)
  • Hard pencil
  • Graphite stick
  • Black fineliner pen
  • Black thick felt tip pen
  • 75ml tubes of black, red, yellow, blue acrylic paint
  • Red, blue, yellow watercolour paints – either tubes or a palette
  • Paint brushes – a range from thick to thin
  • Several water pots
  • Baking parchment

Paper

  • 3 large sheets of good quality watercolour/khadi paper (200-300 gsm)
  • A4 pad white cartridge paper

A few sheets of other interesting papers that you might have.

 

OTHER MATERIALS

  • An awl
  • A pair of paper scissors
  • Scalpel
  • Rotary cutter (optional)
  • Cutting mat
  • Ruler
  • PVA glue

 

Clothing

  • An apron
  • Comfortable, waterproof shoes/boots
  • Warm clothes
  • Rainwear and umbrella (we will go outside even if it is raining!)

 

 

Bookings

Bookings are closed for this event.