Make your own Advent Calendar at Eddington Festive Market
A sequential art form in its own right, what story will your advent calendar tell?
A creative workshop for all who love drawing and collecting.
Storeys Field Centre Sunday 26th of November 13:30-15:30
Workshops
Books are amazing diving boards for creative workshops. Here you can read about how you could use incorporate my books into Art and Design:
Following an act of kindness a series of animals appear from the inside of Umbrella to help people with their needs: a cat becomes the friend Clara was missing, an elephant helps Mr Roberts collect some apples and the butterfly band cheers up the Moody toddlers, restoring joy in the park. Mr fox needed most of all a lesson in sharing, which he thankfully gets. In the end a community of characters smiles together under a canopy of rainbows.
But the last page sees Umbrella left on a park bench which is where we pick it up for our Umbrella workshops…
That ordinary looking umbrella from the story can be any umbrella left anywhere…
…so what does it hold inside?
Magical animals
clay modelling workshop
If there was a magical umbrella which could bring an animal to help someone you know, what would that animal be and how would they help that person?
Considering the shapes of animals in the book we will think about similarities and differences between animals.
We will choose an animal so solve a particular problem and research images of these animals in their natural habitat.
Activity: How do we understand the shapes in animals. How do we shape clay and make pieces stick together? How can we mark clay to give the illusion of hair or scales?
Peoples
Charcoal or collage workshop
So who else might be in the park on a magical ordinary day?
If you were in the park with Clara and the Moodies and Mr Roberts and Mr Fox how would you draw yourself, or your friends?
Activity: How do we understand the shapes in characters, and how do we translate observational drawings of peoples of all sizes and shapes into charcoal marks or collage shapes to build illustrated characters?
Draw yourself from a mirror or a photograph.
Pink Plaques
design/creative workshop
Blue plaques commemorate great historical achievements by famous or notorious people, adding layers of history to our towns and cities. But there are layers of history yet to be celebrated, the history that we are making now. The history of the ordinary, the everyday and the imagined.
What would you like to celebrate?
A fun and creative workshop to make a pink plaque, like historical blue plaques but looking into our everyday achievements. At the and each participant gets to take home their pink plaque (laser cut MDF, beer mat, paper plate) to hang at home.
Introduction
Conversation about the historical celebrated in the location around the event.
Creative interpretation of our everyday
Preparing the places by underpainting in the required pink with acrylics. Other colours available!
#wishesTogether
drawing/writing workshop
Unlike Umbrella, I can’t make wishes come true.
The best I can do is make wishes come together, and perhaps as a collective, wishes together can give joy and hope to those who see them.
In our wishes together workshop we will:
Make a wish Discuss why this wish is important to us.
Write it, doodle it, draw it, paint it, sew it, glue it, spray it, collage it….onto a little pink card disk (10cm diameter) Pink disks will be hanging from strings so both sides will be visible. think about this in your design.
With a sewing machine a gown up will sew together your wishes into long lines of bunting. It looks best if the thread is the same colour as your card.
We can then hang them from your ceiling or from the inside of an umbrella.
Illustration Workshops
These workshops are best suited for small groups or ran as consultancy sessions one to one. They vary in level from beginner (suitable for all) to intermediate which is aimed more to students of illustration or creative professionals.
Colour
An intermediate workshop for illustrators.
Learn to see colour in a new light!
Masterclass in understanding the relational nature of our colour perception, the limitations of print media and how we apply colour theory into considerate chromatic experiences in picturebooks.
Monoprint
Intermediate and beginners
For printing without a press.
We will explore the medium by removing a carefully spread layer of ink from an acrylic sheet and then transferring the image onto a piece of paper.
Comics
For beginners.
Introduction to the comics form through short writing and drawing games to aim for a single page comic strip.
Character
For beginners.
Develop a character from observation. Whether it will be a person or an animal or an alien or a robot we will start with an observed drawing and work our way into developing an illustrated character with it’s own inner and outer world.