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Here you can find the latest opportunities Open Doors is offering across Newark and Sherwood.

Wednesday Workshops with Artist in Residence, Elizabeth Lambert

28th August - Giant Illustrative Drawings | 10am - 3pm

Can you help us illustrate a giant book? You’ll be set a creative challenge, to make an illustration on a GIANT page of a book. Use our prompts to grow a story, or your own imagination to inspire you. We’ll have all kinds of materials in the studio for you to use and layer on your page, but what will your page look like? We can’t wait to find out!

Participants will be given a giant piece of paper (A1) and be asked to illustrate a line of one of Elizabeth's poems or make up a line themselves. Each page will tell a part of the story. You’ll use a method of layering paint, mixed media and crayons to give each page depth, talk about abstract art and different artists who may have used these methods to create. You’ll also look at authors who create beautiful illustrations in their books.

4th September - Illuminated Calligraphy | 10am - 3pm

Capturing the art of traditional book making using calligraphy techniques, illustration and gold leaf in this workshop you’ll step one foot in the past and turn a piece of your own writing into an artwork.

You’ll look at examples of illuminated calligraphy and examples of printed text in the museum and either write out a phrase from existing texts or write your own and turn it into a work of art. Using gold ink, paint and (fake) gold leaf you’ll create intricate patterns and swirls and frame your text. Or for the little ones you’ll draw or colour in an existing print out of a letter, that would start the page in a book.