11 Courses in Leicester

Join a Biodiversity collage workshop to learn about the biodiversity crisis and how to tackle it.

Monthly online ekphrastic writing workshops exploring contemporary artworks for story inspiration.

Join artist Julie Galante for this online workshop in which you’ll make paper collages out of recycled and reused materials. Collage is a way of creating a visual work of art by combining different elements - be they found images, patterns, bits of text, textured papers - in new and sometimes unexpected ways. This workshop, which will be delivered via Zoom, is suitable for absolute beginners - no previous experience with collage required! Julie will provide step-by-step demonstrations and guide you through making your own series of collage faces. To prepare for the workshop, you’ll start collecting various bits of paper that you come across in your daily life. This can include newspapers and magazines, flyers, advertisements, packaging, photos, gift wrap, instruction sheets, pretty much anything! One of the things we love about collage is repurposing materials that would otherwise end up in the recycling bin. In the workshop, you'll arrange and combine these collected items to create unique pieces of art.

Live via Zoom. Fortnightly - 1/15/29 Oct, 12/26 Nov, 10 Dec - 6-8pm UK time Join artist Julie Galante for this course designed to nurture your creative practice. Together we’ll explore ways to create work that reflects your individual interests, passion, and point of view, no matter your experience level. The course content is delivered over six live Zoom sessions, in a small, welcoming group with plenty of opportunities for interaction. Additionally, there will be optional (but highly recommended) assignments to complete in between the live sessions - assignments designed to get you stuck in to your creative practice in new and interesting ways. During each live session, there will be a demonstration focusing on a particular aspect of visual art - this will include various materials, subjects, and considerations such as composition, theme, mark-making, layering, and so on. We will also have a look at everyone’s recent creations, with celebration of the triumphs and suggestions for moving forward with work-in-progress. Together we’ll explore techniques including drawing, painting, mixed-media, and collage, but you don’t have to work exclusively in these media to take part - all creative disciplines are welcome. Each participant will be encouraged to deepen their explorations in whatever direction interests them most - be it a series of drawings, written reflections, sketches, collages, photographs, mixed-media pieces, or a unique, personal combination of all these. There will be an optional Facebook group for participants to stay connected and share their creations with each other between sessions. There will also be discounts available for other workshops and one-to-one mentoring. 

Join artist Julie Galante for this new online workshop in which you’ll make paper collages out of recycled and reused materials. In this session we’ll be getting creative and a little silly with found images and words. Julie will provide step-by-step demonstrations and guide you through making your own series of collages. Collage is a way of creating a visual work of art by combining different elements - be they found images, patterns, bits of text, textured papers - in new and sometimes unexpected ways. This workshop, which will be delivered via Zoom, is suitable for absolute beginners - no previous experience with collage (or surrealism) required! To prepare for the workshop, you’ll start collecting various bits of paper that you come across in your daily life. This can include newspapers and magazines, flyers, advertisements, packaging, photos, gift wrap, instruction sheets, pretty much anything! One of the things we love about collage is repurposing materials that would otherwise end up in the recycling bin. In the workshop, you'll arrange and combine these collected items to create unique pieces of art.

Using collage as a starting point, drawing and painting sea shells in a variety of media and techniques, paper cut gouache acrylic pastel

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In this live webinar workshop with Marilyn Allis, you will learn how to create a beautiful scene from a Dorset farm using watercolour and mixed-media techniques. In this class, you will focus on bringing farm animals to life when tackling the subject of dairy cows. Don't worry if you're a beginner, Marilyn will guide you through using a combination of mixed-media, including collage and watercolour, to achieve an impressive painting. You'll explore new techniques and approaches in a supportive environment, allowing you to experiment without feeling overwhelmed. - You'll discover how to incorporate subliminal references subtly into your artwork - Marilyn will provide tips and advice suitable for artists of all levels - Learn how to create loose impressionistic paintings without overthinking Throughout the class, you will work with paper for a subliminal underlying story or as a different type of canvas. Using metallic mediums and some ink. This hands-on experience may inspire you to see your subject matter in a new light and develop your skills further. Join Marilyn Allis in this transformative workshop, where you'll learn, create, and explore your artistic abilities in an engaging and encouraging setting.

Sketchbooks are for more than just sketching! In this series of workshops, we’ll explore ways of using a sketchbook to experiment, research, and develop your own creative ideas, leading you towards developing your own unique body of work. Incorporating drawing, painting, collage, writing, and crafting, this workshop will get you trying new things in a small, welcoming group all summer long. During the live Zoom sessions, we'll try out specific ways of using your sketchbook to develop creative ideas. You'll also have a chance to share what you've been working on, and be inspired by the work of others (sharing is encouraged but always completely optional). In between live sessions, we’ll fill our sketchbooks up with writing and images prompted by a series of creative assignments which will have us out exploring the natural and built environment (although many of them can also be completed from the comfort of home). Each participant will be encouraged to deepen their explorations in whatever direction interests them most - be it a series of written reflections, sketches, collages, photographs, mixed-media pieces, or a unique, personal combination of all these. This small-group course includes six live sessions (via Zoom) with Julie, and ‘homework assignments’ for participants to complete in between live sessions. There will be an optional Facebook group for participants to stay connected and share their creations with each other between sessions. You are welcome to join in from any place in the world. The group will be kept small to ensure plenty of opportunities for interaction, sharing, and feedback.

You know you are imaginative, sensitive, curious, empathic, connecting, and compassionate. You may or may not consider yourself creative - but that doesnt matter, because all those other qualities mean that Im quietly convinced that you already are! you might already know that these gifts support you and bring you incredible joy and sense of connection with yourself and others. But because of your qualities - your life is also demanding. Everyone wants a pice of you and sometimes you forget self care, meaning you are also over-stretched, out of balance, and sometimes even ungrounded, spaced out, and overwhelmed. The Soul Sheds purpose is to enable you to turn your empathy and imagination into intuitive guidence and a deeply embodied sense of presence to yourself and others. Welcome to this primer in SoulCollage®  In the comfort of your own home, I will share with you the powerful SoulCollage® process to uncover your own source of inner wisdom. Over three sessions booked to suit your timetable, you will practice the basics: Connecting deeply with your intuitive guidence self as an embodied three-centred being meet the imagery that speaks to you most and collage with it, Bypass any innercritic -this is just for your own pleasure Hear the imagery speak its wisdom to you. Learn about the different suits in a SoulCollage® deck Leave with cards that will continue to speak deeply to you in your life. The Soul Shed offers you gentle creative space to explore reflect and shift stuck energy in powerful ways. Samantha Taroni is a trauma-informed coach, a SoulCollage facilitator, breathwork teacher, and teacher of creative arts with over thirty years experience. Book three sessions to get you started at a time to suit you. Receive a pack of images and blank cards to a UK address.  (If you live overseas, I can send you images to download, or courier you a pack. Ask for a quotation! And if youre interested but want to talk it over a bit more in a chat, you can book a call with me by clicking here. Id love to talk with you and make sure its right for you.