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Online Arts Classes and Courses Programme
You can follow along with our tutors for the following classes via You.tube video links.
Adult classes
Watercolour with Jane Ryan
This watercolour course will introduce you to a mixture of traditional and contemporary techniques using watercolour paints as a base. Using a variety of materials to create interesting effects, you will be able to create a finished piece of artwork of your own and use the skills you have learned to experiment with your own ideas.
Materials required:
- Cartridge paper or watercolour paper Candles sharpened or with some sort of edge to draw with.
- No 6 round watercolour brushes or medium sized soft brush for final wash
- Masking tape
- Watercolour sets (pans)
- HB / 2B pencil
- A blob of Blu Tac
- Small pebbles / rocks (out of your garden)
- Paper towels
- 2 pots for water
Drawing with Kayleigh McCallum
Over the course I intend to take you through the basics of drawing using materials such as pencil, charcoal, ink, chalk and watercolour pencil. We will cover drawing from life and from an image over a range of subjects including animals, people, still life scenes and landscapes. Techniques include drawing, shading, tonal values and proportions.
Materials required:
- Cartridge paper
- HB / 2B pencil / selection of B and H pencils
- Charcoal
- Rubber
- Sharpener
- Chalk pastels
- Pen and ink (or household biros)
- Scrap paper for testing
Acrylic painting with Kayleigh McCallum
Over the course I intend to take you through the basics of acrylic painting. We will cover a range of subjects drawing from life and from an image including animals, landscapes and still life scenes. Techniques we learn include colour mixing, blending, impasto, creating depth and looking at tonal values.
Materials required:
- Cartridge paper
- Masking tape
- HB pencil
- Acrylic paints
- Rubber
- Paint brush
For subject matter go to: http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1083/acrylic_painting_images.pdf.
Abstract painting with Carol Bryan
In this course I intend to have some fun exploring abstract painting, and in various subjects, take you through some colour value and reflections. I would also like to demonstrate where and how to go about putting light source in your painting, as well as dabbling in easy ways to introduce figures into your picture / scene. I will be mostly using acrylic paint for this, but you can also use water-based oil or original oils if you wish.
Materials required:
- Brushes - Flat no.10 / Round No.6 / Flat No.1/2 , small Point No.1.
- Canvas boards, large and small
- Acrylic paint, small set and extra tube white
- A3 acrylic paper
- Palette paper pads
- Pencils HB and 3B
- Sharpener and rubber
Get crafty with Liane Clarkson
We will have a new project in each class, including a decoupage trinket box, a gingerbread / fairytale house painted plant pot, a form-a-line stitched greetings card, a hand-stitched felt ornament, blackboard paint reusable gift tags and an iris folded greetings card.
Materials required:
- Small tubs for water (to make 50:50 mix)
- Small plant pots
- PVA
- Card box for decoupage
- Strands medium ribbon
- Small bells (not essential)
- Paint / chalk pens to decorate the pots
- 6”x 4” blank greeting cards with envelopes
- Spools multicolour / ombre metallic threads
- White felt squares or by the metre (1m)
- Red 6 strand embroidery thread
- Thin red ribbons, buttons and seed beads for decoration.
- Wooden laser cut shapes (heart, etc.) with drilled hole
- Blackboard paint
- Masking tape
For subject matter go to: http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1090/get_crafty_two-flowers.pdf.
Dressmaking with Liane Clarkson
During this course I intend to take you through the basics of using a sewing machine, making Face Coverings from two layers of cotton fabric with elastic ear loops and making yourself a pair of lined slipper boots.
Materials required:
- Any coloured fleece 1m
- Contrast coloured fleece 1m
- Wadding medium thickness 1m
- White cotton thread spool
- Small pink scissors
- Large black scissors
- Roll of masking tape
- Pencil
- Pins
- Stitch unpicker (not essential)
For subject matter go to:
http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1085/dressmaking_non_pocket_fac e_mask_template_young_kids_7_-_12_yrs_old.pdf http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1086/dressmaking_non_pocket_fac e_mask_template_men_size.pdf http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1087/dressmaking_non_pocket_fac e_mask_template_small_kids_3_-_6_yrs_old.pdf http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1088/dressmaking_non_pocket_fac e_mask_template_teenagers_and_women_size.pdf http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1089/dressmaking_slipper_boots_p df.pdf
Textile with Susan Stanners
During this course I will cover a selection of short projects covering hand and machine stitching.
- Weave. Using strips of fabric made into tape, weave a dog tooth check panel. This will be backed with batting or felt to give it more body.
- Pouch. Using the previous week’s panel we will make a small pouch with zip.
- Appliqué. This week we will make an appliqué flower panel.
- Hand embroidery. This week we will cover some textured hand stitches = Palestrina knots, Turkey knots, Scroll stitch and Stem stitch.
- Free machine embroidery. This week we will do some free machining and produce a textile brooch.
- Boro. This week we will make a piece of ‘Boro’ hand stitched fabric – a Japanese mending technique.
Materials required:
- 2 colours of fabrics and a backing of cotton and felt/batting
- Pins and tape the woven panel
- 20cm zip and a piece of fabric for lining
- Ruler and card to make the pattern
- 2 colours of fabric
- 2 colours of thread
- Bondaweb
- Piece of white fabric
- White and black thread and a piece of white felt
- Also some paper for the pattern and a ruler
- An embroidery hoop
- Some colours of perle cotton or embroidery floss
- Crewel needle and cotton
- Practice fabric
- Open toe machine foot
- Small pieces of felt
- Velvet
- A little felting wool
- Colours of thread
- Brooch back and some beads
- Some scraps of fabric, in blues and neutrals preferably
- Cotton for backing and some white embroidery floss
Adult Pottery with Claire-Louise McLauchlan
I’m going to show you how to make practical and functional ceramic pieces for your home and garden using basic hand building techniques with little equipment needed. We will be making kitchen ware such as a cheese board and butter dish set and a Moroccan style tagine for cooking. I will also show you how to make a jewellery box and decorative bottle and for the garden a wall hanging bird bath or sconce and a gnome.
Materials Required
Basic tool pack would consist of -
- Pack of modelling tools
- Rubber kidney
- Serrated edge kidney
- Potters knife
- Sponge
- Bag of ironstone clay
- Rolling pin and mdf board or heavy canvas
- Amaco velvet underglazes
- Paint brushes
Guitar with Josh McGeechan
Suitable for all ages.
Beginners - I will teach you how to play guitar chords. We will start off with the simplest chord shapes and building upon these each week until you are able to play a whole song.
Aimed at beginner and beyond guitar players - We will be learning a different song using guitar tab. Each song will be fun to play as well as help you to learn new techniques. By the end of the course you will be able to play lots of famous riffs and theme tunes.
Advanced - This course is aimed at intermediate to advance players. Each week we will cover a new song. These songs will be quite challenging and help you develop as a player. There will be clear instructions of how to play these songs and I will teach you some advanced fingerstyle and position techniques that will help you play them.
Singing with Fiona Clark
Suitable for all ages.
During this singing course I will teach you some warm ups and techniques to sing two songs Ease my Mind by Ben Platt and Rise Up by Andra Day.
Dance with Laura Reid
Dance is a great way to exercise at any age.
Dance fitness is a type of group exercise that incorporates some or many forms of dance.
It’s an aerobic workout, divided into different tracks that provide peaks and troughs of intensity.
With warm ups and cool downs each week, over the few weeks you will learn a variety of dances to different tracks.
Children's classes
Children’s Painting with Carol Bryan
I aim to have fun, working on step by step paintings with you, showing how to make your picture pop. We will work on various subjects like flowers, winter scenes, how to create your own still life subject and how to make it look 3D. We will also be adding in some crafts. I will show you how to make butterflies and flowers in 3D and how to add some to your paintings.
Materials required:
- Brushes - Flat no.10 / Round No.6 / Flat No.1/2 / Small Point No.1.
- Canvas boards, small
- Acrylic paper A4
- Acrylic paint small set and extra tube white
- Paper palettes
- Pencil HB and 3B
- Sharpener and rubber
- Glue sticks
- Masking tape
- White card A4
Cartoons and caricatures with Neil G Smith
A step by step guide to drawing cartoons and caricatures. Have fun watching as I develop each character and picture looking for those unique features of the famous. I will also show you how to develop a story and the joke; Who would be in Lewis Capaldi's band? What does Dua Lipa have hiding in her dress? And more!
Materials required:
- Pencil sharpie
- Pen black, fine and thin point
- Paint brushes, various sizes
- Water colours
- Water colour pad A4
- Hair dryer
- A picture of the person
Stained glass : arts and crafts with Fiona Foley
We’ll be having fun making some paper based stained glass projects. We’ll be exploring the colours and textures in the glass and investigating the patterns created by the lead lines. We’ll be using coloured cellophane and acetates to make a lantern and shadow box, using a wax scraper board technique to recreate the painting techniques in an antique stained glass panel. Taking ‘bonkers bugs’ as a theme we’ll be making a colourful mobile.
Materials required:
- A4 black card
- Coloured card
- Scraps of foil / holographic card or paper
- Tracing paper
- A4 acetate
- Coloured cellophane
- Shiny stickers
- Thin clear thread
- Transparent beads
- 4 twigs to make the mobile frame
- Coloured permanent overhead projector pens
- Sellotape
- Double sided tape
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Rubber
- Blue tack
- A4 sheet clear self-adhesive film
For subject matter go to:
http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1091/stained_glass_1.pdf
http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1092/stained_glass_2.pdf
http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1093/stained_glass_3.pdf
http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/download/downloads/id/1094/stained_glass_4.pdf
Arts and Crafts with Erin Donnelly
Follow these online arts and craft tutorials to create some crafty projects from a collage forest to toilet roll binoculars for your treasure maps. We will be using a range of easy to find craft materials to create our fun and creative activities.
All materials used are things you would find in the house.
Drama with Colin McCrum
I will be taking you through the basic must haves and nice to know in drama lessons. We will cover the importance of warming up before hand, stage craft, presence on stage and even the pros and cons of using props and costumes. The final few workshops will help you work on creativity and connecting all your new-found skills together.
Drama – script work with Jack Sherlock
During this course I intend to include a variety of exercises to improve improvisational skills, creative writing and general confidence when it comes to performance. I will cover the basics of reading, writing and performing script, and encourage you to develop a short film by establishing camera techniques you can achieve simply on your phone.
Drum with Ryan Buchanan
Over the course of these lessons we will be introducing rudiments and showing how these rewarding exercises can be used on the drumkit.
There will be two strands of these lessons, and keen students are encouraged to work through both at their own pace!
We will also be breaking down and learning new rhythms and encouraging those without drumkits to play along anyway with whatever is to hand.
Children’s Pottery with Claire-Louise McLauchlan
I am going to show you how you can make a range of ceramic items that you can use around your home or garden with the most basic of skills and equipment. We will start off by making things for the outdoors to create your own fairy garden or just brighten up any outdoor space with colourful ceramic flower wind chimes, bird feeders and light up fairy houses or doors! I will also show you how to make lidded dishes that can be used to store jewellery etc and beautiful wall hanging decorations as well as how to use up any clay scraps to make your own set of clay stamps that you can use to decorate your pottery or make some jewellery.
Materials required:
Basic tool pack would consist of -
- Pack of modelling tools
- Rubber kidney
- Serrated edge kidney
- Potters knife
- Sponge
- Bag of ironstone clay
- Rolling pin and mdf board or heavy canvas
- Amaco velvet underglazes
- Paint brushes
Creative pinch pots with secret extras with Karen Shakespear
During these online creative classes we will be exploring all the different ways to turn a simple "Pinch Pot" into beautiful, exciting, different, fun and amazing pieces of art.
Each online class will have a secret extra item you can make that will be amazing to give to others or keep for yourself.
Materials required:
- Sponge (small)
- Bowl of water
- Plastic table cover like a black bin bag
- Plastic tray or wooden try to work on
- Plastic clay working tools (nice to have)
- Rolling pin
Preschool classes
Tiny Art with Katie Riddell
Over these workshops, I will be taking you through a variety of art activities for parents and young children to work on together.
We will make some basic crafts, and we will have some process-led painting for messy fun!
All materials used are things you would find in the house.
