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Polish your paintings Starts 2 October | £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 char

A book that omits weaponry in favour of symbology, armoury and games Starts 5 September | £399 | Online Book now I am anti-war. (Unless it’s interstellar and we have to save humanity - so one could argue that we ought to be pulling together anyway to fight climate change to practise.) Yet war is

Architectural Elements series Starts 6 September | £199 | Online Book now Ancient Indian Stepwells Having created one in 3D for my Memory Palace I am more familiar with the structure of these stepwells. They look complex, Escher-like and surreal but actually they are fairly simple and beautiful

The margins of a manuscript page Starts 5 Sept | £349 | Online Book now Margins: a new series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We first start by honouring past artists with their coloured portraits - in the Mughal school we can see named figu

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 2 August 2023 | Online | £349 Book now The Raft, the Ship, the Kite and Key Kavus' Flying Machine Key Kavus (Shahnameh) wanted to fly, so he attached meat to the 4 corners of his taxt (throne) and chained eagles

Dear lovely students, As promised here it is, below! Guided reflective art writing exercise I would like you to do a piece of writing that has several functions, some of them optional. In fact the whole exercise is optional but I think it’s a good exercise to do periodically, to reflect on your p

Sit under a tree, hold court and paint with me. Starts 21 June | £600 | Online Book now The art of attention - I can’t drive and talk but I can certainly paint and talk as I’ve been doing that all my life, ever since I could hold a brush. I’m going to recreate this painting and I won’t do it agai

Architecture straight out of the Arabian Nights Starts 5 July | £349 | Online Book now Iram and the Tall Columns is one of my favourite stories from the 1001 Nights. An Arabian lost city that is even mentioned in the Qu'ran, the city of Iram of the tribe of 'Ad. My Memory Palace that is part of m

A female merry music maker - or is that slightly melancholic music maker - in the monsoon... Starts 7 June | £295 | Online Book now As a contrast to the male merry music makers earlier, paint a thoughtful lady sitar player deep in contemplation. Maybe she's thinking of musical rasas while compos

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 6 June | £349 | Online Book now Paint some merry men playing their musical instruments - a sampling of very typical period instruments found in paintings. Borne of a desire to present a truly comprehensive pict

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

A games compendium in a book Starts 5 September | £399 | Online Book now Rain, rain, go away… what do you do indoors on rainy days when you can’t go out to play? In the era before iPads, we played board games, or table games as they are sometimes known. We’ll delve into the 3 types of games as

A calligraphy workshop in a book Starts 6 September | £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

Above is the template for the Book of Hours class. Again, it is an A7 page (A6 folded in half = A7). Dimensions of folded book, which is the same as a single page (NOT double page spread but just one page) are 7.5 x 10.5 cm. It's based on the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and I've extended th

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 2 August 2023 | Online ! £349 Book now The Candlemaker, the Incense Bearer and the Beeswax Seller From Levni's fantastic Book of Festivities Paint all waxed, all scented heroes of our fictional Procession of th

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 4 July | £349 | Online Book now Natural Marvels, Wonders and Oddities Composite creatures were a genre of manuscript painting. Arcimboldo did similar paintings in oils. Elephants, camels, tigers, horses and even bu

'Mughal Forest Floor' Starts 4 July | £195 | Online Book now A short and sweet class on small beasties. Paint Mughal insects, butterflies and dragonflies. These images are similar to their Dutch forest floor genre painting counterparts and remind me of the artistic links between artists in Europe

Make a book of palaces that would never be built Starts 18 July | £415 | Online Book now Spiral stairs that lead nowhere, a bridge over nothing, a whimsical pineapple dome in the garden. Make a book of palaces that would never be built. UK people take note: people did actually build these things

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 7 June | £349 | Online Book now Paint some daring tightrope walkers and merry juggling jesters having a ball. Or entertaining their king and patron. Or just practising - these skills sure take many hours of pract

A Unique Analytical Approach to Manuscript Illumination in Several Layers Started 3 May | £600 | Online 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 througho

Polish your paintings Starts 4 September | £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 ch

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 6 September | £349 | Online Book now We'll study the ubiquitous bow and arrow, flags, shields and saddles of the Shahnameh, and perhaps a chariot too. Everything but the horse! The fictional Procession of the Gui

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 5 September | £349 | Online Book now The various troops of soldiers, the Janissaries and all their fabulous hats! In a crowd of that size they would have needed to stand out. From Levni's fantastic Book of Festiv

Architectural Elements series Starts 1 August 2023 | Online | £199 Book now Green doors and floors Paint the gorgeous emerald doors and beautiful malachite floors (they just happen to be green - you can use whatever colours you like) of miniature buildings. The Architectural Elements series f

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 1 August 2023 | Online | £349 Book now Escape artists, Egyptians and Acrobats Circus Arts 2! From Levni's fantastic Book of Festivities Paint multitalented and flexilimbed acrobats, escape artists and 'Egyptia

A Book of Hours made in a single day Starts 24 July | £415 | Online Book now A Book of Hours made over the course of one day (but not necessarily completed in the 24 hour period). This summer's painting performance class! Paint all the canonical hours in their correct time periods - which will va

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 5 July | £349 | Online Book now The Alchemist and the Magician, or the alchemist-magician, or a bookish mage, or the Magi, or the wicked wizard who banishes Aladdin into exile... [Aladdin himself is coming later th

A book of theatrical devices, inside and outside trickery, curtains and drapery Starts 18 July | £415 | Online Book now A good chance to practise your curtain calls and drapery drawing. The Book of Theatrical Devices plays with architectural illusions and makes the inside outside. All the world's

Tea, tea stain and teapots Starts 6 June | £415 | Online Book now The Book of Tea is a little different. I recommend you leave lots of blank pages to fill in a collection of teapots for years to come. There are thousands of quirky teapots in the world so it might be nice to collect them all in the

Part of the Five Elements Book cycle Starts 6 June | £415 | Online Book now A blue book of clouds. Collect your dreamy clouds in a book. If you would like to pair this class with the Book of Tea class, also in June, I recommend this book: Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet (Author), Elspeth Graham (Au