Art with Ali Folkestone

🥂 It’s that time again, ladies! Join me for a fun, festive Saturday night of creativity! All materials included, bring your own bubbles 🥂 Booking now open at www.artwithali.co.uk

⛄️ Come along to my Thursday Christmas Crafts evenings this festive season snowman ☃️ Bring your partner or your friend for a sociable, creative Christmassy experience! Booking now open on my website www.artwithali.co.uk

🎄Join me for festive coffee and crafts, all materials and mince pies included! Booking now open on my website www.artwithali.co.uk 🎄

💀🕷️ Amazing Halloween mixed media artwork by Oliver using collage, acrylics and spray paint… the skull glows in the dark too!

❄️❄️Join me for a festive workshop in which we will be learning exciting watercolour techniques for designing and painting Christmas cards, tree crackers, and baubles as well as getting into the seasonal spirit by painting a beautiful snowy landscape scene. You will leave with a finished painting, lots of ideas and a set of six cards on specialist paper, six tree crackers and four ceramic tree baubles. All materials and a delicious vegetarian lunch and mince pies are included in the price. This workshop is suitable for all abilities, including absolute beginners and if you came last year, we’ll be doing different projects so please do join again!

This week the children are making their own scratch art paper with oil pastels, acrylic and washing up liquid. Very easy process with such magical results!

Join me for a relaxing oil painting workshop where you will learn to paint the sky with confidence. Through step-by-step demonstrations, you will explore two distinct styles: first, a naturalistic approach to capturing the beauty of a cloudy blue sky landscape, and second, an impressionistic technique to depict a stunning sunset seascape. After mastering these foundational skills, you will have the opportunity to choose your own project and complete an additional artwork with personalized guidance and advice. All materials are provided, and participants will enjoy a delicious vegetarian lunch as part of the experience.

🌺🌺 Suitable for beginners or those with some previous experience, this workshop will take you step-by-step through various watercolour techniques to create a series of small studies in a variety of styles: cute and naive, loose and impressionistic as well as a more realistic, botanical type piece. In the afternoon, you will be able to apply your skills to a project of your choosing and complete your own unique artwork. All materials and a delicious vegetarian lunch included.

Pssst! £5 off with code EARLYBIRD before the end of September! 🌻🌻 In this exciting workshop, young artists will learn the fundamentals of painting in oils. Step by step, we’ll explore colour mixing and blending techniques to capture shadow and light across the golden petals of a sunflower set against bright blue sky. Every child will leave with their very own masterpiece ready to brighten up any room! All materials and refreshments provided, please bring a packed lunch 🌻

🎃 In this spooktastic art adventure, young artists will create a mixed media masterpiece using either a skull or a pumpkin template. With a variety of materials like collage, acrylics, spray paint, stencils and gems, we’ll create unique pieces capturing the colours and mood of Halloween! Each child will also have the chance to decorate a Halloween themed mask or black t-shirt using spray paint and stencils. All materials and refreshments included, please bring a packed lunch

It’s been a wonderful summer of workshops and all the creative chaos and making mayhem they bring! Thank you to everyone who booked. I have been so busy that a bit of a backlog of enquiries has developed! I will be working through my admin from next Monday onwards so please don’t worry if you haven’t heard from me yet - I’ll be in touch next week. See you soon, Ali 🌺

Coming up this Sunday, a workshop that will demystify oil paint for the complete or false beginner. With reference to a range of subjects, we will cover the fundamentals of mixing, handling and blending. By the end of the day, you will have a series of artworks on a variety of surfaces to take home with you. As always, all the materials are included in the cost as is a delicious homemade vegetarian lunch, Book online at www.artwithali.co.uk

✏️ 🖊️ 🎨 Booking is now open for the next Pencil, Pen, Paint course! Suitable for beginners, improvers as well as more experienced artists looking for fresh inspiration, this relaxed, eclectic weekly class provides adult learners with an opportunity to explore their creative side in drawing, painting and simple printmaking.

Skills such as mark-making, value, composition, colour mixing and paint handling are introduced as students experiment with a variety of media, which may include graphite, ink, collage, charcoal, pastels, watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil paint.
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No project is repeated so students can attend each term knowing there will always be fresh ideas and inspiration.
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Students are welcome to attend any class of the same week if they cannot make their usual class for some reason. Please book via the website www.artwithali.co.uk 🌺

☁️ Beautiful cloud studies in oil paint from today’s workshop ☁️

I have this double sink to give away. It doesn’t need plumbing so is perfect for an art studio without its own sink. Could also be good for a garden shed. You can run hot water if you plug it into a standard socket. I have the water tanks for both clean water and waste which go in the cupboard below the basins. Please share with anyone who may be interested:)

I have been showing my adult learners watercolour techniques for skies and seas. I absolutely LOVE this painting by Fiona! I am running a weekend watercolor workshop ‘Land Sea and Sky’ on July 27th and 28th where we’ll be learning these techniques and more, taking inspiration from Folkestone’s coastal park and harbour. There is a £20 discount on bookings made before the end of June, meaning the weekend is £130 with all materials and lunch includes. Booking is online at www.artwithali.co.uk. Please call if you have any questions on 07821361050, Ali 🌸

☀️We will spend Saturday morning on Folkestone’s East Cliff and at the Warren looking at compositions, textures, colours and collecting photographs and oil pastel sketches. Later, in the studio, we will map out a gouache study in preparation for Sunday when we will enlarge and translate our workings-out into a larger oil painting on canvas. The workshop is suitable for beginners, improvers or more experienced artists looking for a refresher. All materials and a delicious vegetarian lunch included in the price. Please call me with any questions on 07821361050, Ali 🌸

Suitable for beginners and those with some previous watercolour experience, this workshop will include step-by-step demonstrations throughout, plus a focus on paint mixing to match the colours of nature. Taking our inspiration from Folkestone’s Lower Leas Coastal Park and Harbour, we will be experimenting with a variety of approaches such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and line & wash. We will work both in the studio and en plein air (weather permitting). Taking place over two days, all materials are included in the price and a delicious vegetarian meal is provided on both days at no extra cost. Enjoy a £20 discount if booking before the end of June ☀️ Call me with any questions on 07821361050, Ali 🌸