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Rainy day weather

Explore how to create dramatic dark cloudbursts. We will look at how to build depth in dark cloud as well as how to draw the heavy rain sweeping across hills. We will also explore 

creating distant hills and bright horizons and textured foreground.

Pastels for beginners

Ever wanted to try pastels have tired them found it so hard to recreate some of the effects you've seen? Chances are you need to come along to a beginners session and explore how using different papers to discover all that pastels can offer and how your style can work with them. A fun day of exploration for those new to art or new to the medium. 

Snow in the landscape

Spend a day in the warm studio create chilly snow scenes. Learn about the importance of not using white until the very end, along with trying two different types of surface to explore a variety of textures.

Blue Sky Weather

Sometimes white cloud against a blue sky can be the hardest thing to get right. Spend the day exploring creating gorgeous fluffy white clouds against a clear blue sky. What could be better then recreating a summer day?

Sunsets and the seashore

Learn to create some gorgeous multi coloured skies and how to control your palette when mixing sunset colours from the dramatic to the subtle. We also explore how to use those match those tones in the sea below. FULLY BOOKED

Wet and dry 

This session will explore using layers of charcoal with pastel and pastel liquefier to create landscapes that capture the mood of the dramatic hills and edges of the Peak District. It's wild and wonderful- be prepared for some happy artistic accidents!

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Texture and the Moors

Using Sennelier pastel card, you will learn to create some loose and expressive moorland pieces. This technique is without blending so you will explore using the pastel itself to create a variety of marks and shapes with your layers of colour.

Dry Stone Walls- 2 day workshop £170

No we won't be learning how to lay a wall!

But we will be learning how to recreate these wonderful ancient walls that are such a feature of the Peak District with pastel, pastel pencils and charcoal pencil. We need two days to fully explore this intricate and absorbing technique. 

Turquoise Seas

We will look at how to use layers of blue to create delicate transparent breaking waves. You will also learn how to show wet sand with foaming water - and the importance of lilac, yellow ochre and green in our seascapes. FULLY BOOKED

Out of the darkness

Wonderful charcoal- so expressive and evocative. Learn how to build layers of charcoal and work with standard and electric erasers. We will also use compressed charcoal and charcoal pencils to build details and textures. With a glimmer of colour.

Windy and Wild

Explore using pastels to create sweeping dramatic clouds and wispy edges to show different kinds of windswept clouds. We will look a dark clouds against a pale background as well as white clouds against a blue sky.

Exploring Trees- 2 day workshop £170

This two day workshop will give us lots of time to explore creating trees in different ways. We will begin using charcoal and charcoal pencils to explore the wonderful textures. This will be followed by using full colour in another piece to really bring everything to life with detail and movement recreated using pastels and pastel pencils.