Old Mill Arts is a Dumfries and Galloway based, multidisciplinary learning project aiming to empower creative capacities both individually and collectively.
In our studio, through our workshops and during projects, we explore the hidden profundity of hand making creative materials. Through practising and sharing these age old crafts, we hope to remember parts of ourselves eclipsed by mass production, and to celebrate the rich history of the handmade arts.
Upcoming Workshops…
*15% reduction on any workshops when booking more than one, please get in touch to receive the discount code.
In this workshop you will learn how to transform beautiful rich earth and plant pigments into your own set of natural pastels.
We will begin by running you through how to process your own wild pigment in a way that is then suitable for making pastels. You will learn what to add to your pigment to hold your pastels together and give various finishes.
Using our wide range of pigments, you will experiment with colour mixing, developing your own unique shades and textures.
By the end of the workshop, you will have a set of you own soft pastels that you have made to take home, as well as comprehensive notes to continue your pastel making journey.
We will finish the day by making an oil pastel, giving a window into another world of exploration.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at Old Mill Arts Studio, Mabie Steading, Mabie DG2 8HB
Sunday 9th Aug
10:00am - 3:30pm
£75*
*we have one reduced rate place available for people on a low income, please inquire.
*One place is held for anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
In this workshop you will learn how to make non toxic - plastic free fabric paints using indigo and earth pigments which you will craft from raw materials such as clays and foraged pigment stones.
These paints can be used on any natural fibres and in this workshop we will be focusing on cotton and linen. Natural fabric paints can be used on recycled or new fabrics, and are great for a variety of uses such as using up old fabrics, painting on canvas for creating art pieces, craft projects such as decorating cushions covers or lampshades, using when crafting with young or vulnerable people, and much more.
These fabric paints have a great versatility and are fantastic for experimentation, the natural colours have an easy to work with, harmonic palette and the inexpensive, low waste ingredients encourage an abundant way of working.
You will go home with many pieces of fabric to use for further craft/art projects, you will have your own hang painted wall hanging and throughout the day you will also have the chance to paint fabrics you bring yourself such as cushion covers, and lampshades.
Please note - We will be using a soya based binder.
Please note - This workshop is happening at our studio, Old Mill Arts, Mabie Steading, Mabie DG2 8HB
6 spaces available
Saturday 15th August
10:00am - 3:30pm
£80*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
**One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
In this workshop we will be based in our studio at Mabie Steading which is on one level to our toilet. The accessible toilet for the steading is through the cafe which includes two steps, or around the side of the building which is around 100m walk. We have a pdf picture guide of our studio which we can email before or after any booking.
If adaptations to tools such as paintbrushes or chair/desk space would be useful, please do get in touch, all enquiries are welcome.
In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of what watercolour paint is and what it is made from.
Throughout the day you will make and build up a unique palette of water colours that you can take home with you at the end of the workshop in your own paint tin. We aim to make around 8 colours - 12 colours for you to take home, however there aren’t any limits on what you can create.
During the workshop you will learn what pigments are, where they come from and how they are turned into paint through combinations of ingredients. We will have a wide selection of pigments for you to choose from, enabling you mix, match and test out, to create exactly the tones and colours you enjoy.
The day with include learning how to make a traditional water colour binder from various tree gums and what to add to the gum to make that unique quality of water colours (and gouache) of being able to be re-hydrated.
Alongside the creating of your own set of paints there will be some teaching of colour theory and painting of colour charts to demonstrate how colours relate to each other.
8 spaces available
Please Note: this workshop will be held at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Thursday 20th August
10:00am - 3pm
£65*
*Bursary places available for people on a low income, please inquire.
*One place is held for anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme, which is available on all our workshops, enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop, or there will be an option to arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop, we will retain 100% of your payment, and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
Are you overwhelmed by mordanting? Wanting to get going but don’t know where to start?
This workshop is designed to give you the confidence to begin your journey with natural dyeing, or to build on some experience you already have. Join us for either day one, both days, or, if you have some experience with natural dying already, just day two.
DAY ONE:
You will learn how to prepare cotton, linen and wool for dyeing including cleaning and mordanting with alum and tannins. You will be given clear guidance on where to start and how to keep these processes simple so as not to get overwhelmed. Please note: we will be using samples of fibres to dye with, not larger pieces as this is an introductory workshop, the aim is to give you a good foundation on which to continue your journey and take it to where ever suits your work.
You will learn about which plants give colour, which are more ‘light fast’ and where you can find/grow or buy them from. From some of these plants you will learn how to make a colour rich dye dye pot, experiencing the making of around 8 pots using a mixture of plant types.
You will go home with a good range of labelled swatches for future reference, and a through set of notes to help you to continue dyeing at home or in your studio.
DAY TWO:
Using the fibres dyed from the previous day, you will learn how to create rainbows of colour by ‘over-dying’. In order to complete the colour wheel, you will learn how to make a simple indigo dye pot which will be used for colour blending.
Alongside creating colour blends, you will learn about modifying colour and how plants are able to change colour and tones in certain conditions.
This day of colour modification will allow you to experience the alchemy of plant colour, these joy filled experiences bring so much magic to the dye process and are a good way to get hooked on plant colour.
You will go home with more labelled swatches for future reference, and a second set of notes to help you to continue dyeing at home or in your studio.
Sat 22nd and/or Sun 23rd August
10:00am - 3:30pm each day
£75* per day or £130 for both days
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
**One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
In this three day workshop, you will travel back to times long ago, gaining a broad understanding and experience of the colours and materials used in the pre medieval world. We will ponder the cosmology of colour and the age old intertwined relationships between the practitioner, the materials and the practice.
Using authentic pigments, you will be guided through a visual colour map of trade routes and histories during this period. Emphasis will be given to the significance of colour, where minerals, plants and insects were sourced and their symbolic and economic importance within cultures.
You will learn about azurite from Armenia, cinnabar from Spain, green earth from Cyprus, kermes gathered from Mediterranean oak trees, madder from Turkey, indigo from Baghdad (known as Baghdad Blue), saffron from Persia, and much more.
You will experience transforming these colour sources into various creative media following historical recipes to achieve high quality creative materials and although colour will be the main focus of this workshop, there will also be opportunity to craft artists tools such as brushes, pens and ink wells.
Over the course of the three days you will:
create your own palette of ancient colours including pigments and paints you can use at home.
receive an exclusive Old Mill Arts booklet which accompanies the workshop and includes reference notes, images, paint samples and recipes.
go home with surface samples illustrating various historical surface preparations.
complete a unique Old Mill Arts poster to document pigments and paints.
If you are travelling from afar, please get in touch for recommendations of places to stay if needed.
Please note - This workshop is happening at our studio, Old Mill Arts, Mabie Steading, Mabie DG2 8HB
6 spaces available (1 place remaining)
Tues 8th Sept - Thurs 10th Sept
10:00am - 4pm each day (with breaks)
£225*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
**One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
In this workshop we will be based in our studio at Mabie Steading which is on one level as is our studio toilet facilities. The accessible toilet for the steading is through the cafe which includes two steps, or around the side of the building which is around 100m walk with no steps. We have a pdf picture guide of our studio which we can email before or after any booking.
If adaptations to tools such as paintbrushes or chair/desk space would be useful, please do get in touch, all enquiries are welcome.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
10% discount for booking both workshops at Hugo Burge, email hello@oldmillarts.com for the discount code.
In this workshop you will learn about the rich and beautiful possibilities of working with trees to create colour and art materials.
During the course of the day different aspects of this intriguing subject will be covered. Firstly you will be shown how to make a range of drawing charcoals from different trees, and then how to transform the charcoals into rich, dark satisfying paints, and how to control textures and consistencies of paint for various effects.
You will then learn about the considerable variety of inks that can be created from trees, and experience making some which will be bottled for you to then take home at the end of the day. We have some vital tricks to share to help achieve colour rich inks with beautiful consistencies.
We will cover some inks you might be familiar such as oak gall and walnut, and others which are more obscure such as colours from alder cones or hemlock fir tree root.
In conjunction to inks we’ll also demonstrate the relationship between ink and dye, and on on a small scale, show dyes colouring pre-mordanted wool.
The day will also include experimenting with the vital reactions between tannin and iron to darken colours. This can also be employed to achieve some interesting effects and time will be given to trying out making beautiful layered patterns.
Finally you will learn about tree based binders as well as how and to what surfaces, the colour of trees can be applied.
You will home with:
Multiple tree inks
Dye samples
Notes and recipe cards
Ink colour swatches
Various tree drawing charcoals in plant holders
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at the Hugo Burge Foundation, Marchmont Estate, Duns
https://www.hugoburgefoundation.org/
Monday 14th Sept
10:00am - 3:30pm
£80*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
*One fully refundable place on each of our workshops is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please email hello@oldmillarts.com if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
We will be using essential oils on this workshop, we use clove, winter green and sage, please get in touch with any concerns.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 60% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 50% discount for another workshop with a similar price.
10% discount for booking both workshops at Hugo Burge, email hello@oldmillarts.com for the discount code.
To begin, you will be introduced to a historical method of drawing out colours from flowers to create colour rich concentrates. This method doesn’t require any heat, just some flowers of choice and some simple equipment.
After experiencing how to create colours in this way you will then be introduced to the hot method of drawing out colours from plants. This forms the basis of how to make most botanical inks and some of the plants that’ll be involved on the day include coreopsis, weld, marigold and madder.
Once you have become more familiar with how to draw out colours in these ways we will then turn our attention to the Indigo containing plants. This will include how to use the indigo pigment to make different materials and how to extend colour ranges by adding it to other plant inks.
This will be further demonstrated and experimented with by painting onto swatches and then over layering to ever extend the variety of potential colours.
The day will also feature learning about thickeners and binders for inks and how to make them and use them. At the conclusion of each day participants will have a section of materials to take home with accompanying notes for further studying and reference.
You will go home with:
Multiple plant inks and paints
Detailed notes and a recipe card
Ink colour swatches
Various inspissated colours in shells
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at the Hugo Burge Foundation, Marchmont Estate, Duns
https://www.hugoburgefoundation.org/
Tuesday 15th Sept
10:00am - 3:30pm
£80*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
*One fully refundable place is available on each workshop to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please email hello@oldmillarts.com if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 60% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 50% discount for another workshop with a similar price.
In this two day workshop, you will learn about colours, pigments, surfaces and binders used in the early medieval era in Scotland and further afield.
You will learn about the origins of inks and paints used in manuscripts, wall paintings and other decorative applications, as well as artistic styles from the time, how they were formed through a fusion of influence linking artists to the wider world.
Over the course of the two days you will prepare and work onto various surfaces. You will then use handcrafted materials made during the workshop, and, working from original source material, create your own versions of historical imagery.
Preparing the surfaces will include the creation of a small piece of fresco made by applying pigments onto fresh plaster to give a sense of how wall decoration was achieved over a thousand years ago. (Inspired by the remnants of fresco at Inchcolm Abbey)
You will go home with your artworks and a selection of authentic paints, ink and your own hand crafted pen, all made following traditional recipes and techniques.
Over the course of the two days you will:
Create, from scratch, your own small fresco panel and paint a medieval inspired image/copy onto the panel using authentic pigments.
Prepare paints using binders traditionally used in the medieval era and see how they are applicable to create sustainable paints today.
Make historical ink and bottle it to take home.
Craft a traditional reed pen to use during the workshop and to take home.
Using source material from illuminated manuscripts, paint your own small panel onto board using historical inks and paints.
Please note - This workshop is happening at Pittenweem Festival Hub
Weds 16th Sept and Thurs 17th Sept
10am - 4pm Tues and 10am - 3:30 pm Weds
£140*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
**One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 50% discount for another workshop with the equivalent or similar price.
SOLD OUT: Email hello@oldmillarts to join the wait list.
In this workshop you will learn about the rich and beautiful possibilities of working with trees to create colour and art materials.
During the course of the day different aspects of this intriguing subject will be covered. Firstly you will be shown how to make a range of drawing charcoals from different trees, and then how to transform the charcoals into rich, dark satisfying paints, and how to control textures and consistencies of paint for various effects.
You will then learn about the considerable variety of inks that can be created from trees, and experience making some which will be bottled for you to then take home at the end of the day. We have some vital tricks to share to help achieve colour rich inks with beautiful consistencies.
We will cover some inks you might be familiar such as oak gall and walnut, and others which are more obscure such as colours from alder cones or hemlock fir tree root.
In conjunction to inks we’ll also demonstrate the relationship between ink and dye, and on on a small scale, show dyes colouring pre-mordanted wool.
The day will also include experimenting with the vital reactions between tannin and iron to darken colours. This can also be employed to achieve some interesting effects and time will be given to trying out making beautiful layered patterns.
Finally you will learn about tree based binders as well as how and to what surfaces, the colour of trees can be applied.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at The Hearth, Main Road, Horsley, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 0NT
Thursday 8th October
10:00am - 4pm
£80*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
*One fully refundable place on each of our workshops is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please email hello@oldmillarts.com if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
We will be using essential oils on this workshop, we use clove, winter green and sage, please get in touch with any concerns.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
SOLD OUT: Email hello@oldmillarts to join the wait list.
To begin, you will be introduced to a historical method of drawing out colours from flowers to create colour rich concentrates. This method doesn’t require any heat, just some flowers of choice and some simple equipment.
After experiencing how to create colours in this way you will then be introduced to the hot method of drawing out colours from plants. This forms the basis of how to make most botanical inks and some of the plants that’ll be involved on the day include coreopsis, weld, marigold and madder.
Once you have become more familiar with how to draw out colours in these ways we will then turn our attention to the Indigo containing plants. This will include how to use the indigo pigment to make different materials and how to extend colour ranges by adding it to other plant inks.
This will be further demonstrated and experimented with by painting onto swatches and then over layering to ever extend the variety of potential colours.
The day will also feature learning about thickeners and binders for inks and how to make them and use them. At the conclusion of each day participants will have a section of materials to take home with accompanying notes for further studying and reference.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at The Hearth, Main Road, Horsley, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 0NT
12 spaces available
Fri 9th Oct
10:00am - 4pm
£80*
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
*One fully refundable place is available on each workshop to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please email hello@oldmillarts.com if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
*15% reduction on any workshops when booking more than one, please get in touch to receive the discount code.
In this workshop we will explore the Lindisfarne gospels from the perspective of the materials used in its manufacture.
You will learn about each colour of the gospels, how they were created, and using authentic materials of the time, you will create your own inks and paints (replica pigments for toxic pigments), using binders that would have been used in the original works.
You will learn how to craft your own calligraphy pen and, using templates, you will create a pattern from the book using the colours and inks made during the day to give your pattern authentic colour.
Alongside these activities, you will learn about the assumed creators of this magnificent work and the time in which it was made. Widely considered a masterpiece of early Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, we will explore how the imagery used by it’s creators combines a variety of influences and how colour was used to achieve the lavish decoration.
You will go home with an exclusive Old Mill Arts booklet on the colours of the Lindisfarne gospels, a bottle of oak gall ink, your own handcrafted calligraphy pen, homemade verdigris, and your own piece inspired by the gospels.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is held at:
Dukes of West Barns, 5 Duke Street, West Barns, Dunbar, EH42 1UR
10 spaces available
Monday 19th October
10:00am - 4pm
£85*
*we have reductions available on this workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
**One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
Our inks and paints contain essential oils, please get in touch for more information. If you have any other concerns such as noise, equipment we will have available, structure of the workshop, space in the room, access to toilets or anything else, please contact us, we welcome any questions or queries.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.
Blog…
On a recent trip to Italy, celebrating Edward’s 40th birthday, our main focus became exploring and discovering some of the remarkable surviving frescos found in numerous chapels and churches.
I (Lucy) have recently joined DGOWL (Dumfries and Galloway Outdoor Woodland Learning) and led a skills share day in Mabie Forest next to our studio…
Discover what we do…
*15% reduction on any workshops when booking more than one, please get in touch to receive the discount code.
In this workshop you will explore the empowering crafts of making your own earth pigments and set of beautiful watercolour paints. You will experience the magical transformation of turning foraged stones, earth and clay, into rich pigments, then turn those foraged pigments into your own high quality handmade paints.
Making your own pigments is an act of rebellion and remembering. It reclaims the artist as colour maker, and reminds us of the long arc of history that came before pre-made paints became so dominant. These age-old crafts open up immense possibilities in art making, they have the potential to reweave us back into landscape and back into cultures of connection.
For this workshop we have collaborated with Woman of the Woods, a D&G based crafts person making exquisite wooden hand crafted wares using locally sourced wood. Exclusively for this workshop, Rachel, aka Woman of the Woods, has crafted a wooden palette for you to fill throughout the day, and to take home filled with your own hand crafted watercolours.
You will also go home with in-depth notes and a pigment resource card which will enable you to carry on these crafts at home/in the studio.
This workshop works well with the workshop on the 9th August, as it gives you a basis in pigment making which can be used in pastel making.
Suitable for complete beginners and/or experienced art makers who would like to develop their skills in making art materials.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is being held at Old Mill Arts Studio, Mabie Steading
https://logie.co.uk/
6 spaces available
Sat 8th August
10:00am - 4pm
£80* (includes a handcrafted wooden palette)
*we have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.
*One fully refundable place is available to anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme, which is available on all our workshops, enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund.Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.
Accessibility:
If you would like to book onto the course and have any further questions about any accessibility before doing so, please get in touch, we welcome any questions or queries.
In this workshop we will be based in our studio at Mabie Steading which is on one level to our toilet. The accessible toilet for the steading is through the cafe which includes two steps, or around the side of the building which is around 100m walk. We have a pdf picture guide of our studio which we can email before or after any booking.
If adaptations to tools such as paintbrushes or chair/desk space would be useful, please do get in touch, all enquiries are welcome.
Cancellation Policy:
If you wish to cancel your booking we will refund you 100% of your overall payment if you cancel 4 weeks or more before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel. We will refund you 50% of your overall payment if you cancel less than 4 weeks before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel, or arrange a rescheduling onto another course where possible. If you cancel less than 1 week before the start date of the workshop you wish to cancel we will retain 100% of your payment and give you a 40% discount for another workshop with the equivalent price.