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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

Bespectacled figures in miniature painting Starts 9 July | £199 | Online It's not often you see folk wearing glasses in miniature painting. Here's your chance to paint either 1 or both of them. It's no surprise that they are scholars. This class could also be taken as part of the CHARACTERS (Aladd

Peeeeeeew! Starts 10 July | £399 | Online In celebration of summer after the Topiary book and after the spring Book of Delights we continue with the Fountain book. Who doesn't love a fountain? Fluid dynamics in watercolour paint. We discuss flow, laminar and caustics. Water can do so much more tha

Slowly focus on perfecting your brush technique in this Masterclass Starts 9 July | £199 | Online Dive deep into the dance of the Black Pen - Siyah Qalam - and follow the lyric, ritualistic rhythms of the brush in its highest expression as we capture the wild, intense forms of the moving figure.

The most beautiful building in the world Starts 7 May | £199 | Online Book now Paint the most beautiful building ever built - the Taj Mahal. It's also known as the most perfect building in the world (I guess symmetrically, geometrically, symbolically, aesthetically, historically...?). That's it -

An ancient neon book that glows in the dark Starts 1 May | £399 | Online Book now A glow in the dark/neon/fluoro book where we explore different paint effects too. This book includes shop signs for snuff, medicine, carriages, slingshots, ponytails, musical instruments, drums, knives, paint, oil s

Paint fire and the regal Dragon, Simurgh and Phoenix Starts 7 May | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and fiery mythical beasts in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences that synthesised along th

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

Polish your paintings Starts 5 August | £195 | Online Book now FINISHING SCHOOL The Finishing School of finishing paintings For acquiring the correct brush etiquette in completing one’s paintings Deportment for one’s portfolio Polish your paintings and varnish your soul To mark entry into c

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 10 July | £349 | online The solemn folk, the religious orders and the officials. Here comes the imam, the preacher, the qadi and the judge. We have the ulema, the mullahs, the sheikhs and the sayyids. Be on your bes

The Classic of Mountains and Seas Starts 9 July | £399 | Online There is a toy theatre thread that runs through the current crop of books. Between the Peepshow and the moveable books there is the Harlequinade book - also known as a lift-the-flap book. On the stage the Harlequinade was a precursor

From Mentorship to 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 did this for around 7 years, a while after I’d already graduated myself from the Slade, with a professional artis

Tales of the marvellous and news of the strange classes ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 1 May | £349 | Online Book now Here are the merchants in the flea market and the spice market: the sellers of goods, textiles, fresh fruit and a watermelon exchange. A man drinking from a waterskin and a monkey ste

A vertical book of columns and pillars Starts 7 May | £399 | Online Book now A tall book of endless columns. We will try to source beautiful pale grey leather for this vertical book. There will be fold-outs folded into this long and narrow book. We'll look at the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian colum

After The Art of Attention - The Art of Apprenticeship: Painting the 1001 Nights Starts 6 May | £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 like

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

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 10 July | £31 | Online 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 1-31 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it takes to mak

A calligraphy workshop in a book Starts 10 July | £399 | Online 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 writing syste

Create your own characters Starts 9 July| £199 | Online 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 own characte

A Unique Analytical Approach to Manuscript Illumination in Several Layers Starts 7 May | £600 | Online Book now Welcome to the Make a Carpet Page course! It's my analytical approach to manuscript illumination in several layers and the course is divided into 12 chapters. I'll really hold your hand

A calligraphy workshop in a book Starts 1 May | £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 writi

Create your own characters Sarts 7 May | £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 own

The arch never sleeps Started 2 April (still available) | £199 | Online Book now The penultimate Architecture-only focused class, here we look at classic arches and the orders of arches with a special focus on Indian and Middle Eastern ones. Here are the multiple arches of the Cordoba mosque, Guj