Botanical Drawing at the allotments - Open Day

Alongside the Open Day at the allotments, you are invited to try out some botanical drawing. Bring your own sketchbook and drawing materials if you can, or have a go with some of ours. We'll be doing simple line drawings using the shapes of plants at the allotments. You are invited to drop in and spend some time looking in detail at the wide variety of botanical shapes around, and have a go at drawing them. A chance to focus right down and pay close attention at the end of this busy week.

DRAWING THE FIGURE

YOGA MOVEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING

WITH ALICE MIKIETYN OF LOCH BROOM NURO YOGA AND CHARLOTTE WATTERS

Come join us for a morning of movement and creativity!

All ages and levels are welcome. No previous experience needed - in Yoga or drawing. Simply come with an openness to feel, notice and respond.

Alice Mikietyn will guide you through a calm and easy yoga sequence, through which you will be encouraged to concentrate on and observe your movement, posture and breathing. Using this awareness, we will then draw the human form using only our bodies as reference in a fun, experimental drawing exercise. Come wearing comfortable clothes which you don’t mind getting a bit dusty, as we will be using chalks and charcoal.

location To be Confirmed

ZINE WORKSHOP TWO - WITH ADELLE DIGGLE

Come along and learn about the wonderful world of zines. We'll begin the session by looking at some examples and brainstorming ideas, before learning two classic paper folds to make your no-sew mini books.

We will use collage materials (which you can make at the sister session, taking place on Wednesday 10th September 5.30 - 8 pm” Gelli printing for collage”), Using these papers and stamps and pens you will make unique zines to take home.

Suitable for all; no experience necessary. -

It is not necessary to attend the sister course - this session can be attended even if you haven't booked for the Gelli Printing for Collage workshop which runs the previous day . All materials Provided

ZINE WORKSHOP ONE - WITH ADELLE DIGGLE

GELLI PRINTING FOR COLLAGE

In this introduction to gel plate monoprinting, we will use layering, stencils, image transfer, and botanicals to produce colourful and textured prints on a range of papers. The aim of the session is to build a supply of collage materials to use at home in your own projects or to bring along to use at the sister session Introduction to Zine Making the following day on Thursday 11th from 5.30 to 8.00 pm.

Suitable for all; no experience necessary.

All materials Provided

All things seaweed

Art Workshop with Frances Fogg

In this workshop you will be looking at seaweed to use for as a material and inspiration in this mixed media workshop

: mono printing, gel printing and drawing

Open to all - no experience necessary.

You are welcome to Drop in when suits during this 3 hour workshop

This will take place at the seaside location of the Ullapool Sailing Club at the wee pier Shore Street.

WALK • MAKE • CREATE

ONE DAY MINDFUL CREATIVITY AND NATURE WORKSHOP WITH JUSTINE RITCHIE AND ALISON ROE

Join us for a day of relaxed creativity and connection where you will be invited to slow down, reconnect and gain inspiration from time immersed in nature.

Justine Ritchie (Photographic Artist, writer and certified forest bathing guide) and Alison Roe (award winning Nature Writer ) have teamed up to bring you this immersive nature connection and mindful creativity workshop.

- be introduced to the art of mindful walking and nature connection practices based on the principles of forest bathing (shinrin yoku)

- make a simple book to record your own nature writing / journalling / sketching

-create your own written responses to nature from prompts and guidance offered.

bring packed lunch/ time given to break for lunch

Join us for a day of relaxed creativity and connection where you will be invited to slow down, reconnect and gain inspiration from time immersed in nature.

Facilitators:

Justine Ritchie (Photographic Artist, writer and certified forest bathing guide) and Alison Roe (award winning Nature Writer ) have teamed up to bring you this immersive nature connection and mindful creativity workshop. 

Justine is a photographic artist, writer and Certified Forest Bathing guide based high above the shores of Lochbroom. 

Her work is very much inspired by the wild, elemental landscapes and seascapes of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and has been featured in various Royal Photographic Society publications as well as The Great Outdoors Magazine.  

She adopts a mindful, intuitive and immersive approach to her work incorporating both camera based and alternative photographic processes - both of which make their way into various hand made books.

Recognising the benefits of being outside  led her to the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku where she learnt to deepen her own connection to nature and subsequently trained as a Certified Forest Bathing guide in 2020. She has since led mindful creativity and nature connection workshops in the Northwest Highlands.

Her work can be found at www. Justineritchie.com

Alison Roe is from Edinburgh and now lives on the north-west Highland coast of Scotland. She’s always been drawn to the sea and the north and is currently writing a book about a sailing trip to Arctic Norway. She has had work published on the Scottish Mountaineering Press Creatives platform and in Northwords Now and Stravaig (the journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics). When not writing, she's usually up a hill, playing taiko (Japanese drums), building dry stone walls or flitting around in her van, a mobile writing studio which doubles up as drum transport. Her musings on all this wash up intermittently at solanoire.com

This workshop is structured around experimentation with a variety of mediums and techniques. We will look at how we can use ‘bondaweb’ to capture threads, metallic foils, etc and how we can manipulate it to create unusual results. This workshop looks at how we can manipulate materials and creates opportunities for participants to put their own stamp onto their results be they quite delicate and intricate or more loose and open.

all materials provided .

bring packed lunch/ time given to break for lunch

DRAWING AND JOURNALING CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP WITH AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR JENNY GRANT

JENNY WILL LEAD THE CHILDREN IN A CREATIVE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP DRAWING AND JOURNALING TO CREATE THEIR OWN HANDMADE POCKET BOOKS

ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED

JENNY WILL LEAD THE CHILDREN IN A CREATIVE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP MAKING BOOKS WITH PAGES THEY CAN PAINT WITH NATURAL PAINTBRUSHES AND POCKETS FOR TREASURES OR PAPERCREATURES.

ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED.