'Paint with Wool' and Needle Felt your favourite Animal or Pet Portrait ~ with Jane Makes

Learn how to paint with wool to create a beautiful animal portrait; you don’t need to be artistic or have drawing skill, really... There is a great way around this!
In this course Jane will teach you how to create a 2D needle felted picture use a animal photo of your own. Not only will you take home an amazing animal portrait, you also get to keep the tools you used, so you can do more at home.
Working from your own photograph, Jane will guide you through the tools & techniques needed to create your own beautiful felted picture.
You will begin by transferring your chosen image onto some cotton fabric, to get an accurate outline of your animal. Then, with Jane's guidance, you will be shown how to manipulate the fibres -  from laying out the initial colurs to the beautifully intricate detailed effects to bring your animals to life.

9.30am – 4.30pm
£80 inc. a tasty lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: around £15

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

Thursday 24th April 2025

Kindly note there will be material charges of £15 payable to the tutor directly on the day.  Typically this course runs with around 9 students.  Suitable for Beginners & intermediates.

Please bring:   Two A4 colour paper photocopies of your chosen animal (please bring normal weight photocopy paper. NB: thicker paper does not
work); this is for the transfer process.
Your chosen photograph should fill most of the A4 paper (head shots work best for beginners, whole animal images are a little more tricky).
Also please make sure your picture is a sharp clear image with no blurred or dark areas, this will help you when filling in the fine details to
bring your animal to life.
It is very helpful to also have your image on your phone of tablet but it's still essential that you bring the paper photocopy versions too.

About the Artist- Jane first became inspired by various wet felting processes and the intracacies of needle felting some ten years ago.

She originally trained as a seamstress before returning to Education to Study Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton. Her career path has taken her from Seamstress too Designer to teacher. She now follows her passion for teaching by running various classes in the area, with a specialism in pet and animal Portraits. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Cumbria and is now available by commission.