Calendar 2024

Please bring your own photographs or samples of work by the great masters to discuss and work from.

The first week we can consider working in watercolour and the second in oils (or acrylics.)

Please bring all your usual equipment for working in these media.

First session. Simple Monoprinting – drawing pictures.

We will be making simple single colour monoprints, either freehand or tracing. You don’t have to be good at drawing to get great results!

If you have them please bring the following. If not most things they can be provided or shared.

• Water-based printing ink
• Brayer/ink roller (preferably soft rubber e.g. speedball) (if not we can share)
• A4 acetate sheet or smooth plastic punch pocket

• 10+ sheets A4 smooth cartridge paper or smooth printing/watercolour card
• Alternatively, old book pages work well to print on to
• 10+ sheets A4 copy paper
• Scissors
• Coloured biro/ballpoint pen (not black)
• Pencil
• Masking tape
• Embossing ball tool (optional)
• Magazine/newspaper pictures or photocopied photos for inspiration 

Second Session. Simple Monoprinting using stencils and masks

We will be making simple single colour monoprints.

If you have them please bring the following. If not most things can be provided or shared.

• Water-based printing ink
• Brayer/ink roller (preferably soft rubber e.g. speedball) (if not we can share)
• A4 acetate sheet or smooth plastic punch pocket
• 10+ sheets A4 smooth cartridge paper or smooth printing/watercolour card
• Alternatively, old book pages work well to print on to
• 10+ sheets A4 copy paper
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Masking tape
• Stencils, leaves or any item from nature, any recycling items that can make an imprint pattern (e.g. bottle tops, patterned packaging)
• Embossing ball tool (optional)

All members welcome; any media may be used, help given if required. Good coffee is served at 11am. The fees are the same as last year. £42 for the 8 week term if possible or £7 for any single session. *

Bring any materials of your choice including protection for a table and floor if they are messy materials. Tea/coffee served by the centre is not included in the fees.  Fees will be £42 for all eight sessions or £7 for any single session.

There are few parking places by the Centre, in Church Street or De La Warr Road. Paid parking is available in the Manor Gardens Car Park (payment by machine (coin), phone or corner shop).  Road parking is available in Lychgates Close, north of King Offa Way if you can climb steps and have a head for heights to cross the footbridge over King Offa Way.

Volunteer models always welcome. Please ask your friends if they might like their portraits painted. There is a gift for each model.

Tea and coffee will be available at break time.

The price will be £12 per session, or four sessions (not necessarily contiguous) can be bought for £40.  Please bring the correct change if paying by cash.

All BAW members are welcome.  There is no tuition, however we are a friendly, informal and supportive group.  All of our models are professionals.

We usually start with a series of short poses, then after the break we have either one long or two medium-length poses.

Tables are available.  Bring any materials of your choice including protection for a table and floor if they are messy materials. For parking please see the Portrait Group entry (above).

The price is £5.00 per session which includes tea/coffee and biscuits but please bring your own lunch.

Places are limited so please call Elaine on 01424 846477 to book a space. If you are then unable to come please let Elaine know as soon as possible so that she can offer the place to somebody else.

Experiment with painting bubbles – not painting all the reflections and refractions, but actually painting bubbles. Bring along watercolour or acrylic paints, paper and brushes. We’ll paint bubbles, using straws and washing-up liquid, and then think about putting them into a setting, so bring some ideas about where your bubbles might be (on the seashore, in a bath, in a champagne glass…)

Come along, have a go, and have some creative fun. 

A workshop for members wanting to learn to crochet and for members who have some basic knowledge of the craft. Illustrated handouts showing how to crochet will be provided. Some hooks and wool/ crochet cotton will also be available. If you have your own hooks and wool please bring them with you. Books and magazines showing ideas for crochet will be available to see and also some additional members who crochet will be at the workshops to help those learning.

All members welcome; any media may be used, help given if required. Good coffee is served at 11am. The fees are the same as last year. £42 for the 8 week term if possible or £7 for any single session. *

Bring any materials of your choice including protection for a table and floor if they are messy materials. Tea/coffee served by the centre is not included in the fees.  Fees will be £42 for all eight sessions or £7 for any single session.

There are few parking places by the Centre, in Church Street or De La Warr Road. Paid parking is available in the Manor Gardens Car Park (payment by machine (coin), phone or corner shop).  Road parking is available in Lychgates Close, north of King Offa Way if you can climb steps and have a head for heights to cross the footbridge over King Offa Way.

Volunteer models always welcome. Please ask your friends if they might like their portraits painted. There is a gift for each model.

We will have access from 10.30am in order to set up.

The price is £5.00 per session which includes tea/coffee and biscuits but please bring your own lunch.

Places are limited so please call Elaine on 01424 846477 to book a space.  If you are then unable to come please let Elaine know as soon as possible so that she can offer the place to somebody else.

We are always pleased to see members come and join us at the Open Studio and welcome members who just drop in to see us too.

Please bring :

Charcoal or very soft pencils and white paper

White pencil, pastel or chalk and black paper

If possible a small lamp or spotlight

Newspaper, drawing board or support etc as usual.

This day we will come together to finish the postcard exhibition entries ready for exhibition and sale at the Sailing Club Craft Fair which we hope will be on 3^rd May.

Every member is asked to submit at least one wonderful, exciting, image postcard size, exclusive to this exhibition. Every item will be for sale at £5. in aid of charities (see above)

This will be the last handing in date for those entries please.

They may be handed to committee members at any previous activities or delivered to the organiser at

6, Daresbury Close TN39 4DR. There will be no submission charge.

In the first part of this presentation, Dave will demonstrate that you don’t need expensive software to have creative fun with photographs.  He will demonstrate the use of some free (and freely available) Windows software that can modify photographs to produce dramatic and surreal images.

In the second half of the presentation, Dave will go online and demonstrate the use of AI software to create images from text descriptions, and explore the capabilities and limitations of current AI offerings.  In this part of the demonstration, suggestions from the participants will be welcome.

Please note – this ‘workshop’ is a demonstration, using a laptop coupled to a projector and large screen.  While Dave will explain things as clearly as possible, the demonstration will not be ‘hands on’ and will not claim to teach any of the skills needed.  There will be a handout listing the software that is being demonstrated.

The price is £5.00 per session which includes tea/coffee and biscuits but please bring your own lunch.

Places are limited so please call Elaine on 01424 846477 to book a space. If you are then unable to come please let Elaine know as soon as possible so that she can offer the place to somebody else.