SPRING HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2025

“YELLOW!” It Must Be SPRING & time for some D2S Drawing Workshops! As the weather turns we’ll find ourselves once again inside the Gallery Space at Addison Road, eager to explore & experiment at the start of the week, with as many yellow mediums as we can manage to merge on one page then, the very next day, take the colour away as we collage a Monochrome Me, realise & accept drawing rocks ROCKS in Box Of Rocks (Version 2.0), create a reference resource in Fur, Feather, Scale or Skin & end the week by getting Surreal to create a pack of Exquisite Corpse Cards! What a great way to welcome warmth & wonder into our hearts & hands these coming Holidays.  

“YELLOW!” It Must Be SPRING

I’m not going to lie … I LOVE SPRING! In all its colourful light filled goodness, SPRING makes me happy & the ultimate colour of happiness, in this Workshop anyway, is YELLOW! Sunflowers, daffodils or dandelions, bananas, pears, or pineapples, birds, beads or beach umbrellas, we’re going to create a fascinating flip book of SPRING using as many yellow mediums as we can manage to merge on one page. From oil pastels to ink we’ll mark our way through the day & then decide which shade suits a sway of silhouettes and watch everything take shape, in book form, right before our eyes.

Ages 5+

Monday 29th September 10:00 - 4:00

Monochrome ME

Call me collage crazy but when it comes to mark making madness, I’m all in. It’s amazing how a picture can emerge from a few carefully shaped & placed scraps of inky paper. Ok, portraits can be tricky, but when we get graphic, play with lines, fill in shapes & spaces & stick to a monochromatic colour pallet to create tone, the snip & stick of textured papers can elevate a composition from ordinary to extraordinary in a matter of minutes. In this Workshop we’ll learn all about shadow & light using ink washes and texture & tone using a variety of techniques, to create interesting and unique portraits that won’t fail to invite any viewer to lean in & look just that little bit closer.

Ages 5+

Tuesday 30th September 10:00 - 4:00

Box Of Rocks (Version 2.0)

We know people have been collecting minerals (including gems & crystals) for thousands of years right, but what is a mineral? Simply, minerals are the chemical substances that make up rocks, in fact everything on earth that is not living material is made up of one or more minerals. In this Workshop we’re going get up close & personal with some amazing minerals and be drawn to drawing their extraordinary shapes, textures, colours & layers to capture their beauty in Pencil, Ink and Watercolour to create a spectacular subterranean Pop-Up Box of Rocks. Psssssssssst - did you know graphite (yep, the stuff in pencils) is a crystal? So are snowflakes, diamonds & table salt and did you also know … drawing rocks ROCKS!

Ages 5+

Wednesday 1st October 10:00 - 4:00

Fur, Feather, Scale or Skin

What better way to play with mediums & techniques than to pick up a pencil, pen, stick or brush and discover the joy of drawing an animal in a multitude of ways! We’ll look at lines, shapes, silhouettes, forms, faces, surfaces & structures. We’ll draw with pencil, pen, ink and watercolour and collate a collection of style cards as a drawing reference or resource or maybe just a spectacular snapshot of a day of exploration & experimentation looking at the extraordinary animals, we share our lives with. Regardless of whether they are covered with Fur, Feathers, Scales or Skin you will learn to love drawing them all!

Ages 5+

Thursday 2nd October 10:00 - 4:00

Exquisite Corpse Cards

There are A LOT of different versions of the Exquisite Corpse game that we could follow to draw our drawings, but in this Workshop, we’ll be playing our own version of this chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists. In the past we have made flip books & foldouts but, in this version, we will make many cards that can be sorted, ordered & interchanged to create unique characters or crazy creatures all while learning some graphic drawing tips and using a myriad of mediums. We’ll even decorate & construct our own box to contain our corpse creations.

This Workshop is specifically designed for older kids and is the perfect way to experiment with different types of drawing & drawing mediums.

Ages 10+

Friday 3rd October 10:00 - 4:00