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February 2020
Sip and Paint with Soon Lai Wai
Award winning artist, Soon Lai Wai, who is exhibiting his series of lotus paintings at the Art Colonnade At the E&O Hotel in February, will guide you in the creation of your own masterpiece. Art supplies provided with canapeś and a glass of Taittinger, Brut Reserve, Reims, France. RM285 nett per person, The Conservatory, E&O Hotel Saturday 8th or Sunday 9th February 2020, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Advance reservation is required. Contact +604 222 2000 ext. 3151 / 3139 or email fbcentral.resv@eohotels.com …
Find out more »March 2020
Leong Wai Khong Open Studio
Doodle artist and illustrator Leong Wai Khong will set up a temporary studio at TAES. He will showcase his award-winning artworks, processes and transformations. He will be working in his temporary open studio at the Art E Space March 27th-29th and April 3rd-5th from 1pm to 6pm. He will also hold a workshop - exact details to be confirmed. You can learn more about his work at http://www.behance.net/leongwaikhong
Find out more »Editorial Illustration: Communicating Ideas & Getting Hired
Part of a series of three workshops under ‘A Weekend of Comics and Illustration’. Distilling a text into a clear idea and conveying it visually is at the heart of editorial illustration, which covers images made for publications like newspapers and magazines, print and online. Examples of publications that commission such work include the New Yorker, WIRED, Washington Post, Saigoneer, Mekong Review, Tempo, and New Naratif. This workshop is ideal for students and emerging artists who are thinking of working…
Find out more »Pop-up Card Workshop with Winnie Cheng
This is a fun workshop for children and adults where participants get to create their own pop-up card inspired by George Town's iconic shophouses. Participants will be guided on how to cut, fold and glue the template and can customize their card by colouring it in with colour pencils and marker pens. Winnie Cheng is a full-time artist living and creating in Penang. She has a Master of Arts in Art by Research from the University of Brunei Darussalam (2013)…
Find out more »My Story/Our Story: Making Comics Alone And Together
Part of a series of three workshops under ‘A Weekend of Comics and Illustration’. Making comics can be a solo or group effort, depending on your preference and artistic process. This workshop will provide insight on both methods of working, as well as some hands-on comic making activities to explore the creative opportunities unlocked with each method. In the workshop, participants will learn: How to navigate the process of making comics alone and in a team The advantages and challenges…
Find out more »Painting Vibrant Watercolours
No more muddy, dreary, just “blah” paintings! This workshop will teach you how to create paintings that are vibrant and have impact. This workshop is not for the absolute beginner. It is best if you have some drawing and painting skills, as we will be jumping straight in with drawing your subject before we start painting. There will be some colour theory exercises to go through before we actually start painting our subject, but don’t worry! It will be…
Find out more »Creating a Comics Pitch
Part of a series of three workshops under ‘A Weekend of Comics and Illustration’. Have a story you would like to submit to publishers, but don’t know how or what to pitch? This workshop covers the basics of what a pitch is, its structure and its materials, as well as tips on navigating the publishing industry as a comics creator. The workshop will also provide participants a chance to finetune their own pitch with personalised critiques from the facilitators.…
Find out more »“Painting Shopping Bags “save the planet” With Molly Tay
Molly Tay studied art at Nanyang Academy of Arts Singapore, and then at Edinburgh University, ands then returned to Malaysia to teach as a Fine Art Lecturer at Equator College. She received her Master of Fine Art and Design in 2005 at the University of Tasmania. She currently conducts workshops regularly at The Art E Space. In this workshop Molly will show you how to paint acrylic on a canvas bag. The price is RM 105 per person including materials.…
Find out more »April 2020
Acrylic or Watercolour?
Are you confused by the title of this workshop? Not anymore! You will be painting with acrylics, but using glazes of transparent colour, so that the result looks like it could be a watercolour painting. We will start off with drawing our subject, so some drawing skills will be essential. I will be teaching you how to lay down glazes, mingling colours to create luminous layers, and establishing lights and darks. Transparent layers do not mean weak colours! You can…
Find out more »Ralph Kiggell Open Studio
Thailand-based Ralph Kiggell’s open studio will show him at work, and also he will exhibit prints relating to his work in Thailand and to the tropics, about woodblock printing, and about how it can connect to the environment. He will be at Hin Bus Depot from April 3rd-5th 1pm to 6pm. He will also run a workshop about water-based Japanese woodblock printing, details to be confirmed later. Ralph Kiggell studied woodblock printing, both traditional and contemporary methods, in Japan in the 1990s, finishing with an…
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