This stencil printing workshop is for anyone interested in making prints on fabric and exploring pattern making by hand. In this workshop Pauline will take you through all the techniques she has developed for stencil printing fabrics and making patterns, but most of all this will be a week of playful discovery, starting with exploring all the different effects that can be created with a brush on fabric and making spontaneous patterns, to making more complex motifs and repeating patterns.
About this course:
In this workshop you will be learning new techniques as well as make beautiful fabrics to be used in your own life or given as gifts. The workshop is very suitable for beginners, but Pauline’s workshops are also often taken by established makers and artists who want to learn these techniques as an addition to their existing practice. In the workshop we will be working from nature inspiration, starting with (simple) sketches, as well as work with abstract motifs, or any theme of your interest. The week has a structured programme, but will allow you to explore specific aspects more in depth and not go into others, if they are less interesting to you and thus adapt the workshop to your own interests and level.
After this week you will be fully equipped to keep on exploring these techniques at home. You need very little space and few supplies to keep on printing. In the course price all materials used are included and you will get a set of brushes to take home with you, as well as several readers in which you can read back everything that was covered in the workshop.
Programme Outline – Stencil printing and pattern making on fabric
Saturday
4.00 – Check-in time from 4pm onwards. Guests arrive, settle in and explore Clos Mirabel
6.00 – Welcome drinks followed by dinner
Sunday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 An introduction to the course: an exploration of working with a brush on fabric, creating different effects and textures. A look at different ways to make a spontaneous ‘tossed’ pattern. A Playful start in making patterns with simple motifs consisting
of a single stencil and working with a single colour.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.00 – 4.00 Looking at the ways colour can be used in stencil printing. Printing a pattern with one or more simple single stencil motifs, working with several colours.
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House.
Monday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 An exploration of making more complex motifs using more than one stencil. Understanding the ways of building layered motifs. Translating several quick sketches into stencils as a practice. Exploring the immediate surrounding of Clos Mirabel to search for natural (or other) inspiration, making sketches to be used in the afternoon.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.00 – 4.00 Working with natural inspiration: plants, flowers, weeds or other themes if preferred. Translating the sketches made in the morning into stencils to print.
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House
Tuesday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Making different quick patterns with the stencils we have cut the previous day
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.00 – 4.00 Making a print using one or more of the motifs we worked with in the morning.
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House
Wednesday – day off (Lunch is not provided)
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
Free time to explore Pau or beyond. The Clos Mirabel Team will be on hand to provide suggestions and organise transfers
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House
Thursday
10.00 – 1.00 Learning different techniques to make repeat patterns with registration, using a grid. Setting up a pattern to be used in a print and making the stencils needed for it.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.00 – 4.00 Making a print with a repeating pattern using the prepared stencils and the chosen grid
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House
Friday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Elaborating the pattern making technique and grid used the previous day or choosing a new grid to work from. Making a final project with these.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.00 – 4.00 Finishing up our work and talk through what we have each created and learnt culminating in a mini exhibition of our work.
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House
Saturday – Buffet Breakfast and departure (Check-out 11am)
Non-participating guests: We are more than happy to welcome accompanying partners, family or friends. There are plenty of activities to experience around Clos Mirabel, that will make your holiday unforgettable Click here for more information.
The Art Studio, offers a spacious open plan layout of 75 m2. It is available at all times during your stay. Click here for more information.
