Pet Portraits Using Wool

This month at By The Broads we will be running some pet portrait workshops. All you need to do is bring along some images to work from. You can book onto individual workshops or for the whole month. If you are interested in booking the whole month at a discount rate, please contact us via email.

The pet doesn’t have to be your own, feel free to bring any pet image providing that the owner is known to you or has given permission for you to use the image. This would be a good opportunity for anyone who wants to create a pet portrait as a gift for a friend or family member.

This is the last in a series of workshops where we will be producing pet portraits using a variety of different techniques. In this workshop we will be using a flat felting technique to create pet portraits. We do this by using needle-felting needles to push wool into a flat piece of felt. If you look at ‘wool painting’ online, this will give you an idea of what the technique is like.

Tuesday 5^th May – Collage – You will have everything you need to produce a unique collage using paper and textiles-based materials.

Tuesday 12^th May – Printmaking – Exploring linocut, collagraph and mono-printing techniques.

Tuesday 19^th May – Watercolour – Try this sensitive and effective medium to produce a portrait of your favourite pet.

Tuesday 26^th May – Drawing with wool – This uses a needle-felting technique to ‘paint’ onto a flat piece of felt.