Creating Hand Crafted ART CARDS
Tutor: Jackie Devereux Course Code: 4224-03
Summary
A seasonal special one day workshop for all comers interested in creating a series of stunning yet simple ideas to create your own original mixed media greeting and Christmas cards as original artworks, as well as designs for reproduction. This very original one day workshop will turn your ideas upside down.
Description
Primarily watercolour based, you will also be encouraged to use tea bags, tissue, lace and more, as we assemble elements for small scale collage, watercolour and stitch to create 3D effects suitable for going through the post as well as for digital reproduction, limited print runs and emailing.A workshop not to be missed - with ideas to adapt for general greeting cards throughout the year. Working alongside professional award winning artist Jackie Devereux who produces her highly collectible watercolour cards as relaxation between creating paintings for exhibitions.
No previous experience, just a wish to produce something from nothing, raiding the old lace and button box, or simply making someone's day when they open their mail! Join me on this very creative journey.
Please bring with you
Some very basic watercolours either a tin or just three tubes - red, yellow and blue
A couple of your favourite brushes and several sheets of watercolour papers - minimum A3 size. I would recommend either 90lb (140gsm) or 140lb (300gsm) and *buying A1 sheets is the most economical
I shall have spares of all of the above available for purchase
If you have a paper cutter or cutting mat, craft knife, ruler, scissors, creasing tool or blunt dessert knife, please bring.
And anything else you can find in your box of tricks!
The following items can be purchased from your tutor
Level
Suitable for all levels - no former experience needed.
Course Location
Missenden Abbey
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 0BD
Tutor
Jackie Devereux
Jackie is a full time professional artist as well as qualified and very experienced adult tutor, whose unique work is greatly influenced by Japanese art as well as the light of southern France which was her home for over twenty years. Jackie’s award winning work ranges from pure large contemporary works on paper, to delicate pencil, to expressive pen & ink and mixed media - all experimental in nature. She has travelled the world, always with the intention of capturing people and places as she goes. As drawing is an integral part of her work, Jackie enjoys working with groups and sharing her ideas and techniques, encouraging others to develop their own potential. Jackie’s work is well published and collected internationally. She has been a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine, has exhibited widely throughout the UK and France, as well as in the USA and Japan. She has shown with the RWS, RI and with the Society of Graphic Fine Art, variously in Menier Gallery, Southwark; in Mayfair, Bankside and The Mall Galleries in London, and was elected and served as President of the SGFA for five years. Her work is shown in Mandells Gallery, Norwich; The Gallery at Waterperry House, Oxford, and often in Babylon Gallery, Ely and Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk.
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Timetable
| Day Courses | |
| 9.45am | Students arrive |
| 10am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | Last teaching session |
"As always, a superb course stretching my abilities in all directions. I appreciated the many tips and instructions for mounting and presentation and the tutor's own inspiring work to see." (November 2019)
What a wonderful experience . Jackie opened the door to her world to someone without any experience. Thank you. (Summer School 2023)
"Jackie was an inspirational tutor." (April 2019)