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Mini Masterclass Workshops

If you are on a budget or can't commit to a multi-week part-time course, our Mini Masterclasses at ArtStudiosBCoT are a fantastic way to improve your confidence in the studios and gain new specialist art skills! Mini Masterclasses are one-hour individual workshops that will introduce you to the basics of a specialist technique.

Currently, mini masterclasses are offered on weekdays, between 9 AM and 4 PM. See below for information on the mini masterclasses we are currently offering. If you require further details or would like to discuss possibilities, please do get in touch. Alternatively, you can purchase a mini masterclass via the link below and we will be in touch to arrange a time with you.

Workshop fee: £30 per person for each Mini Masterclass, includes all materials and tuition.

mini masterclass availability 2020

Printed textiles

  • Introduction to screen-printing
  • Screen-printing with specialist binders and foiling
  • Polychromatic screen-printing with Procion dyes
  • Heat transfer printing onto synthetic fabrics with Disperse dyes
  • Marbling onto synthetic fabrics with Disperse dyes
  • Marbling onto natural fabric with Procion dyes
  • Fusing plastics on the heat press
  • Intro to Batik
  • Screen-printing with devoré (burnout) paste

Printmaking

  • Intro to intaglio metal etching with copper sulphate saline solution
  • Linocutting & block printing
  • Collagraph printmaking
  • Monoprinting

Painting & Drawing

  • Stretching & preparing canvases for painting
  • Watercolour/2D paper techniques
  • Paper stretching for painting
  • Impasto painting techniques
  • Introduction to paper marbling
  • Fashion illustration techniques

Textile Dyeing

  • Tie-dye and shibori techniques
  • Indigo dyeing
  • Dyeing natural fibres with Procion dyes
  • Dyeing silk & woollen textiles with Kenanthrol (acid) dyes
  • Specialist yarn dyeing techniques

Woven textiles

  • Intro to tapestry weaving
  • Designing a weaving project & planning a warp
  • Intro to table loom weaving
  • Intro to floor loom weaving

Knitted Textiles

  • Intro to hand knitting
  • Intermediate hand knitting
  • Intro to machine knitting (casting on, casting off, stripes, troubleshooting)
  • Intermediate Machine knitting - hand-manipulated stitches and effects
  • Advanced machine knitting - using & designing punch cards
  • Intro to industrial Dubied knitting machines

Fibre Arts

  • Creating unique yarns on a drop-spindle
  • Wet Felt-making - creating 2D & 3D forms
  • Dry felt-making - creating 2D & 3D forms using manual needle-felting tools
  • Felt-making using the machine embellisher (needle-felting machine)

3D Techniques

  • Furniture upcycling & refinishing techniques
  • Plastics - using the vacuum formers & plastics kiln
  • Resin casting techniques
  • Plaster casting techniques
  • Grit blasting techniques

Fashion & Sewing

  • Intro sewing - seam finishes, button holes & troubleshooting
  • Free-motion machine embroidery
  • Designing embroidered monograms with the digital embroidery machine
  • Fashion Illustration techniques

Jewellery Design

  • Experimental jewellery design
  • Designing ceramic beads
  • Glassmaking for jewellery design
  • Resin casting for jewellery design

Photography

  • Darkroom photography - creating photograms
  • Darkroom photography - creating chemigrams
  • Darkroom photography - developing film
  • Darkroom photography - sepia & blue tone photography

Photoshop & illustrator workshops

  • Photoshop basics for complete beginners 
  • Illustrator basics for complete beginners
  • Preparing your drawn & painted images for screen-printing with Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Preparing half-tone images for screen-printing with Adobe Photoshop 
  • Colour separation for screen-printing using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 
  • Intro Adobe Illustrator – preparing files for laser cutting 
  • Preparing images for digital embroidery, using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Customizer software 
  •  Creating repeat patterns in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 
  • Creating technical fashion flats in Adobe Illustrator