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Mini Masterclass Workshops

Please note that we are making every effort to meet demand for our mini masterclasses at present, however, the wait may be a slightly longer than usual as we work our way through the waiting list we've acquired over the course of the pandemic. We thank you for your understanding and hope to see you in the studios soon.

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. See below for information on the mini masterclasses that we offer. If you require further details or would like to discuss possibilities, please do get in touch.

Mini masterclasses are offered on weekdays, between 9 AM and 4 PM.

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

Printed textiles

  • Introduction to screen-printing
  • Screen-printing with specialist binders and foiling
  • 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
  • Introduction to Batik

Printmaking

  • Introduction 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

Textile Dyeing

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

Woven textiles

  • Frame loom weaving
  • Designing a weaving project & planning a warp
  • Introduction to table loom weaving
  • Introduction to floor loom weaving

Knitted & Crocheted Textiles

  • Introduction to machine knitting (casting on, casting off, stripes, troubleshooting)
  • Intermediate Machine knitting - hand-manipulated stitches and effects
  • Introduction to crochet

Fibre Arts

  • 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

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

Fashion & Sewing

  • Introduction to sewing - seam finishes, button holes & troubleshooting
  • Free-motion machine embroidery
  • Digital embroidery machine

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

  • Adobe Photoshop basics for beginners 
  • Adobe Illustrator basics for 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
  • Introduction to preparing files for laser cutting with Adobe Illustrator
  • Preparing images for digital embroidery, using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Customizer software 
  • Creating repeat patterns in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator