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Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
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Title: Moody Mountains in watercolour
Tutor: Howard Jones
Date: Friday 26th Jan ‘24 Cost: £55 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
This workshop will be all about creating “Dynamics in our Watercolours”. You will learn how to optimize a broad range of colour and tonal effects for maximum impact, techniques for mixing and applying the correct ratio of paint-to-water alongside the essential technique that is timing of application. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Winter Farmland in watercolour
Tutor: Howard Jones
Date: Saturday 27th Jan ‘24 Cost: £90 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Students will learn how to optimize a broad range of colour and tonal effects for maximum impact, techniques for mixing and applying the correct ratio of paint-to-water alongside the essential technique that is timing of application. The subject matter offers the student an opportunity to learn these very specific skills in order to help them produce dynamic looking paintings. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Dancing into Spring in mixed media
Tutor: Jude Lowery
Date: Saturday 3rd Feb ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 Working with a vivid colour palette in acrylic paint and inks participants will produce a response to flowers depicting their growth and vibrancy. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: “Horizon” in mixed media
Tutor: Scott Eudon
Date: Friday 9th Feb ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
Using the Horizon line as a springboard, this workshop will investigate the powerful images that can be created from the perspective of the horizon as focal point in a painting. An informal and loose approach will develop confidence and skill sets for both novice and experienced painters. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Landscape in mixed media
Tutor: Scott Eudon
Date: Saturday 10th Feb ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
This workshop will focus on the processes that lead to creating atmospheric landscapes. This informal session will allow all involved to let loose on the canvas. You will start with warm up sketching and loose painting experiments to find a style that suits. The painting materials will vary between acrylic paints, inks and even tea or coffee if it fits the process! Suitable for all abilities.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Winter Mountain Landscape in oils or acrylics
Tutor: David “DJ” Johnson
Date: Saturday 17th Feb ‘24
Cost: £75 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Available for both Oils and Acrylics. We will explore different techniques for applying paint using both brushes and palette knives, to recreate effective looking marks and textures found in a winter mountain landscape. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Dappled Light in pastels
Tutor: Jantien Powell
Date: Friday 23rd Feb ‘24 Cost: £40 pp Time: 1.30 - 4.30pm
In this workshop students will be learning how to capture the effects of dappled light in soft pastels. Including tips for composition, creating distance and contrast and different methods for working with soft pastels. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Equestrian Art in oils
Tutor: Elin Sian Blake
Date: Saturday 24th Feb ‘24
Cost: £75 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this step by step workshop, students will work along with Elin to create an equestrian painting in oils. Elin began her career as an Artist at the age of 11 when she gained her first commission to paint a Welsh Cob and she has spent a huge amount of time studying and painting equestrian subjects. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Hellebore & Daffodils in acrylics
Tutor: Martin Truefitt-Baker
Date: Saturday 2nd Mar ‘24
Cost: £65 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Students will create a small flower composition and develop this into a painting. We will learn how to mix and use those difficult natural colours in different shades and to give form and depth, keeping things light and delicate to reflect the structure of the subject. For the brave, there’s also the challenge of the water in a glass vase! Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Two day Portraits in oils workshop
Tutor: Amanda Turner
Date: Fri 8th - Sat 9th Mar ‘24
Cost: £160 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this two day workshop students will be working step by step along with Amanda to create a beautiful figurative portrait painting from photographic reference in oils. Day one will focus on understanding the importance of tone and values and day two will look at the use of colour in completing your portrait, including tips for effective colour matching. Suitable for all abilities - all materials included.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Paint like a wild beast!
Tutor: Richard Box
Date: Sat 16th - Sun 17th Mar ‘24 Cost: £130 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Les Fauves (the Wild Beasts) is the name given to a group of early 20th century artists because of their surprisingly colourful paintings. This course is for all of you who would like to paint expressively with bright and bold colours, exploring a range of medium including acrylics and coloured pencils. Suitable for all abilities - all materials included.
Title: Painting the weather in watercolour
Tutor: Peter Cronin
Date: Thursday 21st March ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 Spend a day learning how to draw and paint the same scene but in differing weather conditions e.g. bright sunshine and dull rain. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Getting lively with line!
Tutor: Jude Lowery
Date: Friday 22nd Mar ‘24 Cost: £35 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30 In this workshop we will explore the way we can layer lively application of coloured pencil marks to produce an energetic depiction of an animal. Suitable for all abilities but be prepared to work quickly!
Title: Abstract Cityscape in acrylics
Tutor: Kip Kavallares
Date: Saturday 6th Apr ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
An exciting workshop exploring and creating an Expressive Cityscape painting. Using Acrylic paints and inks create your very own semi abstract skyline by experimenting with various techniques such as dragging, scraping, dripping and multi-colour loaded brush. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Introduction to Sketchbooking
Tutor: Chris Carter
Date: Friday 12th Apr ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
A sketchbook can help to clarify ideas and compositions. It can be used as a thinkpad and a place to experiment with different tools and techniques. It can be an illustrated journal of a trip you take or your daily life. This workshop begins with you making your own sketchbook and then filling the pages in a variety of ways to test out which work best for you. Suitable for all abilities.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Fifteen ways to use your sketchbook!
Tutor: Chris Carter
Date: Sat 13th - Sun 14th Apr ‘24 Cost: £150 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
The goal of this course is to inspire you to use your sketchbooks as think pads, illustrated journals, a space to experiment and a place to communicate more intimately with your inner artist. Over a two day period, a variety of techniques and approaches to working in a sketchbook will be presented to adapt to your personal process of sketching. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Abstract to Landscape in mixed media
Tutor: Scott Eudon
Date: Saturday 20th Apr ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
You will begin this workshop creating a range of abstract imagery with a whole host of mixed-media. Scott will get you mark making with paints, inks, charcoal, pastels, and anything else you can find in the studio to put colour onto the page. You will then use this imagery as inspiration to develop a series of studies and work towards a completed landscape painting. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Capturing Water in pastels
Tutor: Rebecca De Mendonca
Date: Friday 26th Apr ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
How to capture the energy and ever-changing beauty of water with soft pastels. Rebecca will demonstrate and show examples of mark-making techniques and colour choices for painting water with pastels, including streams, rivers and the sea. Students can work on one or more pieces during the day. Suitable for those with some painting experience.
Title: Capturing Animals in pastels
Tutor: Rebecca De Mendonca
Date: Saturday 27th Apr ‘24 Cost: £75 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Drawing animals with soft pastels, Conte crayons, charcoal and pastel pencils. Including demonstrations and lots of help and advice, on how to draw the structure of animals’ heads, as well as lots of techniques for capturing the textures of fur, feathers, and shiny coats. We will also look at how to capture life and energy of our subjects. Suitable for those with some painting experience.
Title: Drawing in the Abstract
Tutor: Jane Boswell
Date: Friday 3rd May ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
In this class students will be looking at ways of developing abstraction from natural forms in mixed media. Each student will create a unique mixed media piece using pen, colour pencils and watercolours inspired by shapes and forms from the landscape. Suitable for all abilities.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Layering up with collage
Tutor: Jane Boswell
Date: Saturday 4th May ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this workshop you will be exploring abstraction through layering collage materials with painted paper, old landscape images both in paint and photos, adding layers of paint and creating an abstracted final piece. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Waterfalls in line and wash
Tutor: Catherine Beale
Date: Saturday 11th May ‘24 Cost: £90 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 Catherine will demonstrate how to paint water plunging over boulders that are formed from permanent ink pen. Learn about line as well as running,wet-in-wet watercolour techniques in this busy day. Suitable for those with some painting experience.
Title: Semi-abstraction in acrylics using a palette knife
Tutor: Feona Ness
Date: Friday 17th May ‘24 Cost: £35 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30 We will create an abstract landscape painting reflecting the colours of the misty distant hills. The paint will be applied in a gestural manner using flexible metal palette knives. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Colour in abstraction in mixed media
Tutor: Feona Ness
Date: Saturday 18th May ‘24 Cost: £65 pp
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
An exciting day experimenting with colourways and freeing up your painting style to develop a series of flowing abstracts. We will work in various mediums including acrylics, oil pastels and charcoal. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Crickhowell Open Studios
Date: Sat 25th - Mon 27th May ‘24
Time: 10.00 - 16.00
FREE CRiC Open Studios is one of the highlights of our CCS calendar each year. Come along and see the beautiful collection of artwork by Jantien Powell as well as the talented students and guest artists here at CCS. This is also the first opportunity to pick up a brand new programme of events at CCS and make early-bird bookings. Of course there will also be home made cake and refreshments on offer too!
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Mixed media Landscape
Tutor: Martin Truefitt-Baker
Date: Saturday 1st Jun ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Students will create an image starting freely with watercolour, that is then refined and developed using pencil and pen. Along the way we will learn a different way of working expressively with watercolour, understanding that recording the values of colour and tone correctly can sometimes be more important that keeping strictly to the lines! Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Part 1 - Ink Making Workshop
Tutor: Rachel Cadman
Date: Friday 7th Jun ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
In this two part workshop, you will have the opportunity to not only learn drypoint engraving, but also to print with your own handmade ink. In part 1 we will look at what makes good pigment from our environment, how to process it, and turn it into a lovely ink for printing. Suitable for all abilities. **Parts 1 and 2 can be booked separately**
Title: Part 2 - Drypoint Printing Workshop
Tutor: Rachel Cadman
Date: Saturday 8th Jun ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this two part workshop, you will have the opportunity to not only learn drypoint engraving, but also to print with your own handmade ink. In Part 2 we will be learning drypoint engraving, exploring the technique, materials and effects that you can achieve. You will feel such satisfaction to be printing with an ink you have made yourself. Suitable for all abilities. **Parts 1and 2 can be booked separately.**
Title: Mountain Stream in acrylics
Tutor: Mark Warner
Date: Saturday 15th Jun ‘24 Cost: £85 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Within this full day acrylic painting workshop you will have the opportunity to experiment with both paint and aspects of drawing within the composition. We will look at how you can combine some dry and wet mediums as well as bringing the colour together. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Watercolour in one colour
Tutor: Peter Cronin
Date: Thursday 20th June ‘24
Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Working in just one colour changes our perception of ‘how we paint’ in quite a profound way. The aim will be to produce up to three small watercolours from simple photographs and sketches (provided) Suitable for all abilities.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Two day Still Life in Oils workshop
Tutor: Amanda Turner
Date: Fri 21st Jun - Sat 22nd Jun’24 Cost: £160 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this two day workshop students will be working step by step along with Amanda to create a beautiful figurative still life study in oils. Day one will focus on understanding the importance of tone and values and day two will look at the use of colour in completing your painting, including tips for effective colour matching. Suitable for all abilities - all materials included.
Title: “Young Stripes” Zebra in watercolour
Tutor: Jake Winkle
Date: Saturday 29th Jun ‘24 Cost: £85 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Learn to paint loose and lively animal watercolours with Jake Winkle. This will be a closely directed “paint and follow” workshop with the emphasis on colour, freshness and mark making. Tracing options will be available so you don’t have to draw freehand. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Spanish Landscape in pastels
Tutor: Richard Suckling
Date: Friday 5th Jul ‘24 Cost: £40 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
In this class we will create a Spanish landscape drenched in Mediterranean sunshine. Starting with a sketch to give us a guide whilst painting we will work together to create a hot colourful Spanish scene. This class will be very much about colour and light and the differences in the palette needed to paint in hotter locations. This class will be suitable for all abilities.
Title: Expressive Landscapes in pastels
Tutor: Richard Suckling
Date: Saturday 6th Jul ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
This full day course will concentrate on creating landscape paintings in soft pastel where the student is encouraged to push their interpretation of a subject to a more expressive interpretation. We will use various painting and drawing techniques available to the pastel artist to see how we make an exciting and contemporary landscape painting. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Single image storytelling in mixed media
Tutor: Jude Lowery
Date: Saturday 13th Jul ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
In this workshop we will look at methods for creating an image that depicts a story. Working from their own imagery participants will explore composition and develop methods for bringing their idea to life through colour and media application. Suitable for all abilities.
Workshops:
Full day workshops :10am - 4pm
Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm
Title: Dramatic Skyscapes in oils or acrylics
Tutor: David “DJ” Johnson
Date: Friday 19th Jul ‘24 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30
Available for both Oils and Acrylics, students in this workshop will be painting an impressive dramatic looking sunset sky using both brushes and palette knives. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Sunlit Seascapes in oils or acrylics
Tutor: David “DJ” Johnson
Date: Saturday 20th Jul Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Available for both Oils and Acrylics. In this Workshop we explore a variety of techniques to paint reflections and highlights of sunlight on the sea, as well as the textures and shapes to be found in the water and foam. Suitable for all abilities.
Title: Pets with personality in oils or acrylics
Tutor: Lucy Burton
Date: Saturday 27th Jul ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00
Together we will work through a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait in Oils or Acrylics using an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working. We are aiming to make the eyes come alive and give the animal and your painting lots of personality! I hope to inspire you with some new ideas and techniques to take away with you and apply to your own work. Suitable for all abilities.
Group Bookings & Social Events:
We are very pleased to offer a 20% discount on group bookings of between 10 and 12 students.
Choose a workshop from our programme or alternatively we can create a new workshop that is tailored specifically to your group on a date of your choice (subject to availability). This is a fantastic alternative to the traditional end of term or club “do” and makes a lovely day out! Get in touch for full details and bookings.
