Buzz in a Box: Create an Illustrated Insectarium
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2 Hour Video Workshop
Unlimited access to this recording of a previous live Zoom class.
Printable Reference Sheets
All the required reference sheets are included.
Materials and Instructions
Includes a printable materials list and full detailed instructions.
Easy Cheats!
In this workshop you will learn to illustrate realistic little bugs to pop into a matchbox, giving the recipient quite a surprise!
This is a relaxing a fun workshop suitable for all...and you don't need to be able to draw!
Includes Step-By-Step Instructions and Tips & Tricks
The whole process is relaxing and restorative as we learn to built layers of colour. All the difficult decisions here are made for you so that you can enjoy experimenting with colour and patterning effects. This will give your little bug a really life-like appearance!
You will learn how to blend and build colour in mixed media, explore different options for adding collage and how to make cohesive colour choices as well as loads of little useful tips, cheats and hacks!
Fun, Friendly and Welcoming!
You will learn how to build your own decorated matchbox in which to house your bug as well as loads of other creative ideas and variations which will most certainly inspire you to create a whole insectarium!
You could add your paper bugs to little greetings cards and tags!
I'll show you my lift-the-flap bug book, too!
This is a relaxing a fun workshop suitable for all ages and experience levels
Jane
Your workshop was absolutely brilliant! Everything is clear, concise and easy to follow – being a beginner I did not feel overwhelmed but excited at all the creativity possibilities!
Liz
Thank you for the workshop, Lucia, and for the lesson. It was an epiphany... the permission to use artistic licence! Wow! I do love your sheet of little pictures, just like I do the lettering sheets from the last workshop I did with you...thank you for the spur to start again a daily art practice.
Lucia Leyfield
Lucia is an artist, letterer and teacher who loves creating illustrated journals and artist books. She has become known for a unique and creative approach to her work which has been described as 'quietly joyful...a nostalgic, moving and profound ...a treasure chest of creativity and inspiration'
Her journals and sketchbooks, which record life as it happens, conversations, inspirations and experiments, have become works of art in their own right. Many of Lucia's sketchbooks are handmade with a range of papers and combine traditional and experimental hand lettering with watercolour, collage and mixed media sketches.
She is inspired by a diverse range of things: the old, rusty and wonky, worn architectural patinas, ancient diagrams, aged buildings, old books and ephemera, explorers' sketchbooks and vintage field guides.
