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Courses &
Demonstrations

  • Water Soluble Pencils Leiston Workshop
    Water Soluble Pencils Leiston Workshop
    Fri, 24 Jan
    Leiston Community Centre
    24 Jan 2025, 09:00 – 14:30
    Leiston Community Centre, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    Carole will show how this versatile medium can be used – as a dry colouring medium or just like watercolours. A series of simple exercises and a step by step demonstration
  • You Can Draw Flatford Mill - 3 day course
    You Can Draw Flatford Mill - 3 day course
    Mon, 17 Feb
    Flatford Mill
    17 Feb 2025, 15:00 – 19 Feb 2025, 15:00
    Flatford Mill, Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Colchester CO7 6UL, UK
    Carole will demonstrate a variety of techniques to help you to see and draw more accurately, to master shading techniques and create textures…and much more!
  • Leiston Workshop: Drawing Hands and Feet
    Leiston Workshop: Drawing Hands and Feet
    Fri, 21 Feb
    Leiston Community Hall
    21 Feb 2025, 09:00 – 14:30
    Leiston Community Hall, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    This workshop will concentrate on the complex subject of hands and feet. Carole will demonstrate how to capture accurate proportions and foreshortened perspective, and how to place hands and feet correctly.
  • Trimley St Martin Workshop: Hands and Feet
    Trimley St Martin Workshop: Hands and Feet
    Tue, 25 Feb
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall
    25 Feb 2025, 09:00 – 14:30
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    This workshop will concentrate on the complex subject of hands and feet. Carole will demonstrate how to capture accurate proportions and foreshortened perspective, and how to place hands and feet correctly.
  • Trimley St Martin Workshop: Acrylic landscapes
    Trimley St Martin Workshop: Acrylic landscapes
    Tue, 11 Mar
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall
    11 Mar 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    Carole will demonstrate the versatility of acrylics as a medium for capturing landscapes.
  • Leiston Workshop: Acrylic landscapes
    Leiston Workshop: Acrylic landscapes
    Fri, 21 Mar
    Leiston Community Hall
    21 Mar 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Leiston Community Hall, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    Carole will demonstrate the versatility of acrylic for landscape paintings.
  • Art in Aldeburgh: Painting Portraits
    Art in Aldeburgh: Painting Portraits
    Thu, 10 Apr
    Aldeburgh
    10 Apr 2025, 10:00 – 11 Apr 2025, 16:00
    Aldeburgh, Victoria Rd, Aldeburgh IP15, UK
    Portraits are a fascinating and challenging subject but Carole will demystify the process of capturing a likeness teaching you useful techniques and guiding you through a series of demonstrations and exercises. Suitable for beginners or improvers.
  • Flatford Mill: Sketching and Painting at Benton End
    Flatford Mill: Sketching and Painting at Benton End
    Tue, 15 Apr
    Flatford Mill
    15 Apr 2025, 09:00 – 15:00
    Flatford Mill, Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Colchester CO7 6UL, UK
    This is a new initiative and an exciting opportunity to visit and sketch this historic 16th century house and its beautiful gardens. Suitable for all abilities.
  • Leiston Workshop: Spring Flowers
    Leiston Workshop: Spring Flowers
    Fri, 25 Apr
    Leiston Community Hall
    25 Apr 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Leiston Community Hall, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    As the first signs of Spring now start to appear, Carole will show you how to capture some of the garden's glorious colours, shapes and form in watercolours or a medium of your choice.
  • Trimley St Martin Workshop: Spring Flowers
    Trimley St Martin Workshop: Spring Flowers
    Tue, 29 Apr
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall
    29 Apr 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    As the first signs of Spring now start to appear, Carole will show you how to capture some of the garden's glorious colours, shapes and form in watercolours or a medium of your choice.
  • Animals, Birds and Pets: Trimley St Martin
    Animals, Birds and Pets: Trimley St Martin
    Tue, 13 May
    Trimley Saint Martin
    13 May 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Trimley Saint Martin, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    Carole will show you how to capture your pets' character, expression, shape and form, and demonstrate techniques for painting texture and pattern. Using soft pastels and pastel pencils.
  • Animals, Birds and Pets: Leiston Workshop
    Animals, Birds and Pets: Leiston Workshop
    Fri, 16 May
    Leiston Community Centre
    16 May 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Leiston Community Centre, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    Capture animals' character, expression, shape and form using pastels and pastel pencils. Carole will show you a variety of techniques to paint texture, pattern and take you through tips and tricks for painting birds.
  • Rivers and the Sea: Leiston Workshop
    Rivers and the Sea: Leiston Workshop
    Fri, 06 Jun
    Leiston Community Centre
    06 Jun 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Leiston Community Centre, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    Carole will demonstrate how to achieve the effect of waves on a beach or the flow of a river or waterfall, both in acrylics and watercolours
  • Rivers and the Sea: Trimley St Martin
    Rivers and the Sea: Trimley St Martin
    Tue, 10 Jun
    Trimley Saint Martin
    10 Jun 2025, 10:00 – 15:30
    Trimley Saint Martin, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    Carole will demonstrate how to achieve the effect of waves on a beach or the flow of a river or waterfall, both in acrylics and watercolours
  • Pen and Wash at Watershed Studio
    Pen and Wash at Watershed Studio
    Tue, 01 Jul
    Watershed Studio
    01 Jul 2025, 09:00 – 02 Jul 2025, 14:30
    Watershed Studio, St Cleres Hall Ln, St. Osyth, Clacton-on-Sea CO16 8RX, UK
    In this short course Carole will introduce you to pen & wash techniques. Pen and Wash (an ink drawing with watercolours added) is a delightful medium for quick, loose sketchbook studies or for paintings that require a lot more detail.
  • Trimley St Martin Workshop: Pen and Wash
    Trimley St Martin Workshop: Pen and Wash
    Tue, 15 Jul
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall
    15 Jul 2025, 09:00 – 14:30
    Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe IP11 0RJ, UK
    Carole will demonstrate a variety of techniques in pen and wash - watercolours.
  • Leiston Workshop: Sketching at Dunwich
    Leiston Workshop: Sketching at Dunwich
    Fri, 18 Jul
    Leiston Community Hall
    18 Jul 2025, 09:00 – 14:30
    Leiston Community Hall, Sizewell Rd, Leiston IP16 4JU, UK
    Building up a sketchbook and working “en plein air” is good way of improving your drawing technique. For this first of two days drawing outside, we have the use of a garden in Dunwich, which is adjacent to the abbey ruins and also close to the beach.
  • Art in Aldeburgh: An Aldeburgh Sketchbook - watercolours, pen & wash
    Art in Aldeburgh: An Aldeburgh Sketchbook - watercolours, pen & wash
    Sat, 26 Jul
    Aldeburgh
    26 Jul 2025, 09:00 – 27 Jul 2025, 15:00
    Aldeburgh, Victoria Rd, Aldeburgh IP15, UK
    It will include sketching buildings, boats and beach scenes as well as quick people studies and a “how to” on perspective – all the skills required to improve your observation and drawing technique and the perfect way to fill your sketchbook. We will mostly be working outdoors, weather permitting.
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