"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 workshops that will introduce you to the basics of a specialist technique and permit you to work independently in the studios following successful completion.

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

Workshop fee: £30 per person for each Mini Masterclass, includes all materials and tuition
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To register and pay for workshops, visit the ArtStudiosBCoT shop
For 2017-2018 we are offering the following workshops:​

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