Tutor Liz Dixon
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This two-day, onsite workshop is suitable for beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Create an Elf or Fairy House for your home or garden using recycled textiles, embellishments & more!.
With a removable roof, your finished house could be used for storage, or why not add some battery-operated fairy lights to shine through windows when the fairies or elves are home?
You will be using a non-toxic, environmentally friendly medium in a number of different ways to produce your elf or fairy house, using a large glass jar as the base. During the day, you will learn how create sculpt using everyday household materials, before adding layers of recycled textiles & hand-crafted embellishments to decorate your house – add flowers & butterflies, or decorate your house for Christmas with garlands & baubles. Add colour using pigments mixed with a water-based varnish. Once dry, your house is suitable for outdoor display.
Please note that this is a messy art, as you will be mixing your own air-drying clay & using fabric hardeners, so old comfortable clothes are strongly recommended.
Skills & Techniques Covered:
Materials
Materials are not included in your booking fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £25, payable to the tutor during the class.
Please bring with you:
This class can be messy, so please wear old clothes, tie back long hair & remove rings & bracelets before attending.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This two-day, onsite workshop is suitable for beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Create an Elf or Fairy House for your home or garden using recycled textiles, embellishments & more!.
With a removable roof, your finished house could be used for storage, or why not add some battery-operated fairy lights to shine through windows when the fairies or elves are home?
You will be using a non-toxic, environmentally friendly medium in a number of different ways to produce your elf or fairy house, using a large glass jar as the base. During the day, you will learn how create sculpt using everyday household materials, before adding layers of recycled textiles & hand-crafted embellishments to decorate your house – add flowers & butterflies, or decorate your house for Christmas with garlands & baubles. Add colour using pigments mixed with a water-based varnish. Once dry, your house is suitable for outdoor display.
Please note that this is a messy art, as you will be mixing your own air-drying clay & using fabric hardeners, so old comfortable clothes are strongly recommended.
Skills & Techniques Covered:
- Create an Elf or Fairy House
- Learn to sculpt using everyday household materials
- Adding recycled textiles to your art
- Mixing your own air-drying clay
- Using silicon moulds to make embellishments
- Mixing pigments
- Dry brushing techniques
Materials
Materials are not included in your booking fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £25, payable to the tutor during the class.
Please bring with you:
This class can be messy, so please wear old clothes, tie back long hair & remove rings & bracelets before attending.