
ALCHEMY ON PAPER
Join us for a 2-hour workshop where you’ll learn to create beautiful botanical designs using natural ingredients. We’ll show you how to use baking soda for textured outlines and combine turmeric with alcohol to add vibrant colour accents.
In this session, you’ll make simple, nature-inspired patterns perfect for decorating cards, textiles, or home décor. No experience necessary, just bring your creativity and enjoy a fun, eco-friendly craft experience!
What Will You Take Away
- Knowledge of Natural Materials: Understanding how to use baking soda, water, alcohol, and turmeric to create botanical-inspired designs.
- Practical Skills: Ability to draw and colour floral patterns with simple, eco-friendly techniques.
- Creative Inspiration: Confidence to experiment with natural dyes and textures for future projects.
- Finished Artwork: A personalised botanical design to take home.
- Design Tips: Ideas for decorating cards, textiles, or home décor using the techniques learned.
- Environmental Awareness: Appreciation for sustainable, non-toxic craft methods.

Join us for a 3-hour SFX workshop where you’ll learn to create realistic bruises and wounds for theatre, film, and cosplay. Suitable for beginners and enthusiasts, the session covers techniques using makeup, latex, and colours to craft convincing injury effects. Get ready for Halloween as you discover how to replicate bruising, cuts, abrasions, and swelling, including skin preparation, prosthetic application, blending, and colour correction. You’ll also receive tips on safety, hygiene, and building your own FX kit. By the end, you’ll have created your own realistic injuries and gained skills to continue experimenting with special effects makeup.
What You Will Take Away
- Practical skills to create realistic bruises and wounds using makeup, latex, and colours
- Techniques for skin preparation, prosthetic application, blending, and colour correction
- Knowledge of how to replicate various stages of injuries, including bruising, cuts, and swelling
- Tips on safety, hygiene, and building your own FX kit
- Confidence to experiment and enhance costumes or spooky effects for Halloween, theatre, film, or cosplay

Alchemy of Paper
A 2-hour workshop where you’ll learn to create beautiful botanical designs using natural ingredients.
£47.50

SFX MAKEUP
A 3 hrs workshop where you’ll learn to create create realistic bruises and wounds with professional SFX techniques.
£80.00

