SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

2026 RETREAT, 8TH NOVEMBER

9am to 4.30PM

SKINNER BLEND BEADS IN POLYMER CLAY

WITH DEBBIE CROTHERS

**Skinner blends are the basis for these gorgeous beads.**
**By simply mixing and matching design elements; you can elevate the humble skinner blend into a unique art bead.**
Learn how to create a stunning, multi-colour skinner blend with specific design inclusions and then learn how to turn that blend into a bead in the shape of your choice. You will also learn how to create a range of simple but stunning surface embellishments and have an understanding on how and when to incorporate them into the bead.
**You will have all the materials to create your own gorgeous necklace following some of the design ideas available.**

**PLEASE BRING :-**
**Pasta machine**
**Acrylic rod**
**Tissue blade**
**Needle tool**
**Acrylic block/sheet**
**Smoothing tool**
**Ball stylus tool**
**Burnishing tool (credit card will do)**

**KIT COST: $60**
**WHICH INCLUDES:-**
**White 2 blocks ;** **Black 1 block;** **Translucent 1 block**
**Colour 3 blocks (choose from the list below)**
**Orange/brown/ecru**
**Turquoise/green/dark blue**
**Alzarin crimson/purple/fuschia**
**2 x Ready Made Necklaces**
**1 metre leather**
**2 metres cotton cording**
**I will be bringing a huge range of supplies for the group to share.....**
**Beads ;** **Charms ;** **Feathers;** **Chain ;** **Wire ;** **Findings**
**Students will also have access to my supply of:**
**Embossing Powders**
**Glitter**
**Foils**
**Shape cutters**
**Texture stamps**
**Texture tools**
**I will also be providing scrap clay for your bead cores.**

EMAIL DEB

MAGICAL, ARMATURED FABRIC BIRDS

WITH BOBBI OLIVER

You will learn how to include a wire armature in a fabric mixed media sculpture. You will have use of various paints, fabric scraps to sew onto your Magical Bird as well as fancy ribbons and other embellishments.

Kit includes all fabrics, eyes, embellishments pattern, wire armature

Body and head shape will be sewn together for you in this kit. You will hand sew head to body, add fabric embellishments of your choice from a large selection.

Approximately 8-10” tall

KIT COST :- $35

PLEASE BRING: -

sewing kit

fabric

craft scissors

tacky glue

embellishments if you have any and if you want to use some thing special please feel free bring them.

More info closer to the retreat.

EMAIL BOBBI

COLLAGE & MIXED MEDIA, LANDSCAPE

WITH ELLIOTT FOX

We live in a world full of texture and colour! This class will support you to explore diverse mediums to create a novel artwork that challenges you to think outside the box. Whether you traditionally work with drawing, painting, or sculpting, then collage and mixed media is an exciting opportunity to refresh your creative perspectives and techniques! This can provide your practice with a regular creative warm-up or a new artistic outlet! The class will be a fun, insightful, and inclusive opportunity for people of all ages and abilities. We will use magazine images to create a collage, and then layer this with materials such as acrylic paint, gesso, cardboard, ribbon, glitter, buttons, leaves, twigs, and anything else you desire! This class will be delivered in three parts: first guided instructions to familiarise yourself with collage art principles and techniques for creating effective mixed media artworks. The second part will be a free opportunity to apply the skills you’ve learned to experiment with creating an artwork with guidance and feedback. The third part will be focussed on realising a collage and/or mixed media project of your choice. Please keep health and safety, and the wellbeing of you and your classmates in mind if you choose to bring your own materials to class, including ensuring these as low-odour, non-toxic or otherwise dangerous.

**PLEASE BRING:-**
**·       Any drawing or painting materials you like (pencils, pastels, crayons, charcoal, watercolour, paint brushes, acrylic paints)**
**·       Painting palette / paint mixing surface, and a small bowl (for water to wash paint brushes)**
**·       Scissors and a stencil knife**
**·       Ruler**
**·       Glue stick**
**·       Photos or magazines of your choice to share and cut up (National Geographic, Woman’s Day, Vogue, Better Homes and Gardens, or Art magazines are great options!)**
**·       Sketch book to record your ideas**
**·       A friendly and creative attitude!**

**KIT COST: $40** ·
**3x Art board creative surface**
**· Palette Knife Set 5 Pack**
**The kit cost also covers an assortment of shared mixed media materials for the class to choose from (such as glue, magazines, gesso, buttons, ribbons, etc).**

EMAIL ELLIOTT

FELTED VESSEL

WITH ANNE PAGE

You will create a textured felted vessel using merino wool and other fibres.
The vessel will be wet felted using a non rolling technique, but the rolling method will be demonstrated.
Also, a small amount of needle felting will be involved at the finishing stage of the vessel.
The vessel can be used as home decor, for dried or fake flower arranging, or by placing a waterproof container inside, can be used for live flowers.

MORE PICS COMING SOON

PLEASE BRING:-

A Waterproof Apron

If participant wants to make another vessel at home then additional wool and other fibres can be purchased on the day.

KIT COST : $40

WHICH INCLUDES:-

Merino wool - a range of colours (two colours can be chosen by participants on the day)

Fibres, silks, etc to add as embellishment

*Resist and bubble wrap, etc

*Liquid soap

*Spray bottle/small water container

*Felting needle

*Felting tool for non rolling technique

* Towel/bucketPlastic bags to take home vessel.

EMAIL ANNE

DECORATED TEAPOT

WITH SUE BUTLER

Make your own air dry clay Cheshire cat teapot your own way and make yourself happy in the process.

We will each convert an abandoned one- person ceramic teapot into a thing of beauty using apoxy clay and paverpol paints.

In the morning we will sculpt our cheshire cat face using provided templates if you want to (you may have your own idea you want to try) and decorate the rest of the teapot as desired using a selection of texture mats and moulds.

After lunch we will paint our teapot with weather proof paverpol paints and finish off with some black apoxy trimming.

This teapot will not be suitable for tea but can be used indoors or outdoors as a sculpture, tea light candle holder or planter.