This inspirational workshop will help you to explore new ways of interpreting still life drawings through the dynamic use of contemporary colour and shapes.

14:00 -16:00

The session aims to offer a new way of interpreting and re-energising the traditional medium of still life. By creating colourful, sassy and dynamic still lives (no dead fruit or skulls here) Alice creates beautiful shapes, colours and subject matter to help you gain confidence in drawing and enjoy the process of mark making.

The class is appropriate for all skill sets, whether you’re a master mark maker or a complete beginner.

Tickets must be purchased in advance, please book your place here.

Included in ticket price: Materials to use on the day, including watercolour paints, ink, a range of pastels, pens, pencils and charcoal. You will also be given a kit of materials to take away, including pencils, erasers, charcoal, and hand illustrated worksheets to help you continue drawing at home. Entrance to Cass Sculpture Foundation on the day of the event, tea, coffee and biscuits.

To bring with you on the day: Feel free to bring any materials of your own you would like to use. Indian Ink will be available, so you may wish to bring an overall or wear suitable clothing.

About the workshop leader: The Mark Makers is a London based pop up drawing workshop, run by freelance illustrator and designer Alice Nyong. Alice started the workshops in early 2016 with an aim to bring lots of the creative things that she loved together in one place. Fun and non - stuffy, the Mark Makers is about having some time to yourself, to be creative and expressive with no pressure from others or yourself.

Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled. Tickets must be booked via our website. Booking will close at 5pm the day before the event is due to take place.

For booking enquiries please email: info@sculpture.org.uk

Join us for a Modern Still Life Drawing workshop in conjunction with the amazing Hackney Arts, at the Barge House in Haggerston. The Mark Makers is a London based pop up drawing workshop, run by working practitioner Alice Nyong. Fun and non – stuffy; the Mark Makers is couple of hours for yourself, to just be creative and expressive with no pressure from others or from yourself. 

This workshop aims to offer a new way of interpreting the traditional medium of still life, which perhaps you might have learnt at school, and more often than not been a bit bored by. By conceiving colourful, sassy and dynamic still lives (no dead fruit or skulls here) Alice creates beautiful shapes, colours and subject matter which make getting more confident with drawing and mark making a fun process.

Alice works as a freelance illustrator and designer, and shares the skills she uses every day both in her own work and in industry to give insider knowledge and mark making fundamentals in accessible demonstrations and exercises. This class is great for all skill sets, whether you’re a master mark maker or a total beginner.

The Mark Makers is a London based pop up drawing workshop, run by illustrator Alice Nyong. 

TICKETS HERE

Join us on Saturday November 25th, 11-1pm at our Gallery in Kentish Town. £30pp

Fun and non - stuffy; the workshops offer a new way of interpreting the traditional medium of still life, which people perhaps remember from school, more often than not in a boring way. Turning this idea into something fun, using original props (Think disco balls, tropical fruit and colour; no skulls or dead flowers in sight) and creating lots of drawing exercises to warm people up, and bring out creativity. 

Alice works as a professional illustrator so is on hand with demonstrations and hands-on hints and tips to help you get the hang of drawing techniques, Release your creativity with fun observational drawing whilst learning something about how to use the materials, and generally having a couple of hours to yourself to make marks on a page. 

The ticket price includes light refreshments, all materials to use in the session as well as a curated kit of materials to take away to help you get drawing at home, as well as beautiful worksheets illustrated by Alice. You leave with some great original artwork to take away, as well as the tools to do so and a thirst to learn more.

Illustrator, designer and founder of the Mark Makers Drawing workshop Alice Nyong will be leading a fun and colourful drawing workshop introducing Faber-Castell Playing & Learning GRIP Colour Pencils,Connector Pens and paints. This drop-in workshop will encourage imagination and creativity whilst learning new techniques and fun ways to use the medium.  

Alice takes a very free approach to drawing, making the workshops fun and non-stuffy. Using simple drawing and mindfulness techniques kids get the maximum enjoyment and engagement out of making marks on paper. 

Free Event. Email emily@stonegift.com to RSVP

Illustrator, designer and founder of the Mark Makers Drawing workshop Alice Nyong will be leading a fun and colourful drawing workshop introducing Faber-Castell Playing & Learning GRIP Colour Pencils,Connector Pens and paints. This drop-in workshop will encourage imagination and creativity whilst learning new techniques and fun ways to use the medium.  

Alice takes a very free approach to drawing, making the workshops fun and non-stuffy. Using simple drawing and mindfulness techniques kids get the maximum enjoyment and engagement out of making marks on paper. 

Free Event. Email emily@stonegift.com to RSVP 

Illustrator, designer and founder of the Mark Makers Drawing workshop Alice Nyong will be leading a fun and colourful drawing workshop introducing Faber-Castell Playing & Learning GRIP Colour Pencils,Connector Pens and paints. This drop-in workshop will encourage imagination and creativity whilst learning new techniques and fun ways to use the medium.  

Alice takes a very free approach to drawing, making the workshops fun and non-stuffy. Using simple drawing and mindfulness techniques kids get the maximum enjoyment and engagement out of making marks on paper. 

Free Event. Email emily@stonegift.com to RSVP 

Illustrator, designer and founder of the Mark Makers Drawing workshop Alice Nyong will be leading a fun and colourful drawing workshop introducing Faber-Castell Playing & Learning GRIP Colour Pencils,Connector Pens and paints. This drop-in workshop will encourage imagination and creativity whilst learning new techniques and fun ways to use the medium.  

Alice takes a very free approach to drawing, making the workshops fun and non-stuffy. Using simple drawing and mindfulness techniques kids get the maximum enjoyment and engagement out of making marks on paper. 

Free Event. Email emily@stonegift.com to RSVP 

Illustrator, designer and founder of the Mark Makers Drawing workshop Alice Nyong will be leading a fun and colourful drawing workshop introducing Faber-Castell Playing & Learning GRIP Colour Pencils,Connector Pens and paints. This drop-in workshop will encourage imagination and creativity whilst learning new techniques and fun ways to use the medium.  

Alice takes a very free approach to drawing, making the workshops fun and non-stuffy. Using simple drawing and mindfulness techniques kids get the maximum enjoyment and engagement out of making marks on paper. 

Free Event. Email emily@stonegift.com to RSVP 

We will be teaching a mindful drawing workshop as part of 'White Light Yoga Retreat; The Art of Letting go' ran by Steffy White yoga. To find out more, visit the link below:

http://steffywhiteyoga.com/index.php/norfolk-retreat/

Book your tickets now! For our Drawing workshop at the amazing We Built this city store in Carnaby Street. 

The workshop will take place fro 7-9pm and tickets cost £25, which includes all materials and light refreshments. 

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE