Posted on
31st
July,
2011Mintfest takes place from September 2-4, Kendal, Cumbria
Over 40 promoters and programmers from all over Europe have already registered to attend one of the UK’s leading outdoor performance festivals taking place in the beautiful Lake District town of Kendal.
Mintfest is a unique opportunity for promoters, programmers and arts professionals to see more than 60 exciting outdoor shows whilst networking with colleagues from the UK and overseas.
To register, go to http://www.xtrax.org.uk/showcase_mintfest_overview.php
Posted on
30th
July,
2011Future generations of babies born at the Royal Bolton Hospital could be within view of an iconic image of their home town.
Hospital staff are asking artists of all ages to enter a competition to find a ‘Picture of Bolton’, and the winner will see their work framed and given pride of place in the expanded maternity unit. A £20m investment in staffing and facilities has been made at the unit. The competition is open to everyone including photographers, painters, artistic staff, students and schoolchildren.
Artwork should be accompanied by a name, age, address and contact telephone number, ideally written on the reverse. Original artwork can be accepted at a size no bigger than A2 (42cm x 59.4cm), but cannot be returned. It is recommended that entries are photographed or scanned to a file size of no more than 3MB and sent to makingitbetter@rbh.nhs.uk with the subject line: ‘Picture of Bolton’.
Or you can post entries to: Bolton Picture Competition, Communications Office, The Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR.
The closing date for entries is Friday 19 August and the winners will be notified directly.
Posted on
30th
July,
2011The railway poster designers of the inter-war years evolved a highly stylized approach to landscape painting. This exciting course shows how to create similar results through vibrant colour, strong composition and tonal reduction using gouache.
- Learn about opaque watercolour – the tradition medium for poster design.
- Use gouache to produce flat and textured effects
- Understand tonal reduction
- Use poster design structures to compose a gouache painting.
Tutor: Ian Scott Massie
Fee, which includes refreshments and an excellent home made lunch, is £65
at Artison, High Burton, Masham, HG4 4BS
To book contact: http://www.artison.co.uk/?page_id=33 or ring 01765 689637
Date of Event: 25 August 2011
Posted on
30th
July,
2011Chris Helliwell specialises in the ancient art of bodging – green wood (unseasoned) woodworking techniques. Join him for a wonderful day learning pole lathe turning. You will use ancient woodworking tools and techniques including shave horses and pole lathes (like the old “chair bodgers”) and get a feel for what it is like to work with green, freshly felled timber.
Each participant will have their own lathe and set of tools to work with and chopping blocks and shave horses will be shared.
- Find out about the traditional tools used
- Learn the time honoured techniques used to turn wood
- Explore the effects you can achieve
- Take away some impressive work – dibbers, rolling pins or small mallets.
Tutor: Chris Helliwell
Fee, which includes refreshments and an excellent home made lunch, is £75
at Artison, High Burton, Masham, HG4 4BS
To book contact: http://www.artison.co.uk/?page_id=33 or ring 01765 689637
Date of Event: 27 August 2011
Posted on
29th
July,
2011Monoprintmaking is one of the most painterly and spontaneous ways of making prints, each of which will be a one-off image.
- Learn how to identify the features of an original print
- Explore the difference between monoprints and repeatable prints
- Explore this more painterly way of making printed images
- Try techniques such as offset, collage, reductive and additive methods
- Go home with a portfolio full of new original and one off prints.
Tutor: Hester Cox
Fee, which includes refreshments and an excellent home made lunch, is £65
at Artison, High Burton, Masham, HG4 4BS
To book contact: http://www.artison.co.uk/?page_id=33 or ring 01765 689637
Date of Event: 27 August 2011
