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Create your own characters Starts 27 November | £199 | Online Book A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 26 November | £249 | Online Book TALES: Ingenious Devices Likely the last of the ingenious devices - a potluck end of year celebration of miscellaneous and interesting items: triangular domes, floppy domes, an ar

A Hall of Mirrors in a book Starts 27 Nov | £399 | Online Book now Golestan Palace in Iran has a fantastic mirrored muqarnas. We'll paint using ordinary paints, metallic paints and even deboss into foil to make our mirrored creations. This is the Golestan Palace meets Versailles in a book. A fitt

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 26 Nov | £249 | Online Book now TALES: Ingenious Devices Likely the last of the ingenious devices - a potluck end of year celebration of miscellaneous and interesting items: triangular domes, floppy domes, an arc

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 30 Oct | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 127-157 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it

Goldwork on a turquoise page Starts 29 Oct | £249 | Online Book now Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins, also involving gold. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need tea-staine

Create your own characters Starts 29 Oct | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very o

Create your own characters Starts 6 August | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very

Aflatun charms the animals with music Starts 6 August | £450 | Online Book now Lions, tigers and antelopes lie in repose, so we get a chance to see and paint their soft bellies and draw them in positions we don't normally find in miniature painting. Our first multi-animal composition and a compet

A whirlwind book Starts 7 August | £399 | Online Book now A very special dragon scale book, also known as a whirlwind book. We'll make 2 versions, one where each successive page is longer than the previous one, and one where all the pages are the same length, reminiscent of Chinese photo albums I

2024 End of Year Show - CHARACTERS Starts 30 November | £50 | Online Book now The end of year show this year has the theme of Characters. ‘Characters’ do not necessarily need to be human… they can be humans, or dogs, or determined raspberries… This £50 is for developer fee and web hosting live

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 27 November | £349 | Online Book It's time to celebrate the end of the Procession and the probable end of the TALES with Candy Gardens! This monster confectionary creations were post-circumcision comfort treats. Ta

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 27 Nov | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 158-189 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 27 Nov | £349 | Online Book now It's time to celebrate the end of the Procession and the probable end of the TALES with Candy Gardens! This monster confectionary creations were post-circumcision comfort treats. Tal

Interesting, beautiful and unusual scissors Starts 29 Oct | £399 | Online Book now A book dedicated to inspiring scissors. Scissors that are knuckledusters; double scissors; anthropomorphic scissors; twisted scissors; bent scissors; tassled scissors; scissors with metallic and various other finis

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 29 October | £249 | Online Book now TALES: Ingenious Devices A swing and a wheel with a difference: the swing is Levni's Catherine wheel or fairground ferris wheel swing and the wheel is the ingenious device of t

After The Art of Attention - The Art of Apprenticeship: Painting the 1001 Nights Starts 30 October | £600 | Online Book now Apprenticeship I’ve had the pleasure of gaining the uniquely deep learning while working in an artist’s studio alongside an artist as an apprentice assistant myself. I woul

Magic in the Margins Starts 6 August | £249 | Online Book now Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins, also involving gold. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need teastained and p

Tales of the marvellous and the news of the strange classes ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 7 August | £349 | Online Book now From the previous solemn interlude of the judges, back to having fun again. Here are puppet shows, 2 men pretending to be a camel (a bit like pantomime - or the Chinese lion da

A calligraphy workshop in a book Starts 7 August | £399 | Online Book now A calligraphy workshop in a book: we dive into various alphabets, abjads, abugidas and syllabics, signs and symbols. We discover differences and, more importantly, make connections and try our own hands at recreating the wr

Rockwork Margins Starts 26 November | £249 | Online Book Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need teastained and prepared paper ready for cl

A Book of Ancient Drugs Starts 26 Nov | £399 | Online Book now Opium, coffee and tea are all drugs. Many drugs are legal and many are not (alcohol). Paint the paraphernalia of drug use including exquisite opium pipes and opium dens. This is not suggesting you take drugs; on the contrary you shoul

Rockwork Margins Starts 26 Nov | £249 | Online Book now Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need tea-stained and prepared paper ready for cl

Create your own characters Starts 26 Nov | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very o

A Book of Fate and Fortune Starts 30 Oct | £399 | Online Book now A falnameh فالنامه is a divination book or book of omens. Sometimes the bibliomancy takes the form of a grid and other times a book is flipped open to a random page, which answers a question on your mind. The Divan of Hafez or othe

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 30 October | £349 | Online Book now Send in the clowns. And jesters and cheeky monkeys. Building up momentum in the procession now towards the final moments but one - this is the penultimate comic relief. Gearing u

Design an individual dome based on illumination and illustration Starts 5 August | £199 | Online Book now Be inspired by Islamic illumination as well as the illustrators of the Arabian Nights to design your own individual dome. A dome is a great expanse of a surface to design, colour and make. Pa

Paint a sculptor Starts 6 August | £199 | Online Book now The tale of Farhad and Shirin is part of the wider more famous tale of Khosrow and Shirin. There are a few classic Romeo and Juliet style romances - we have covered Leyla and Majnun previously and there is also Vis and Ramin. In this trage

After The Art of Attention - The Art of Apprenticeship: Painting the 1001 Nights Starts 7 August | £600 | Online Book Now Apprenticeship I’ve had the pleasure of gaining the uniquely deep learning while working in an artist’s studio alongside an artist as an apprentice assistant myself. I would

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 7 August | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 32-63 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it