Past Workshops

Summer Camp 2018: Week 1

Kim Robertson, John Marsland, Natalia Lasso, Elham Shafaei

This summer, Tashkeel is on another mission to deliver the most exciting and inventive set of workshops that will encourage young artists to new levels of creating and making. Following the successful...

Youth x Hub: Introduction to Painting

Fatima J Atallah

Join classically trained artist and Tashkeel member Fatima Atallah on a journey into the basics of painting. Discover four of the seven principles that are the essential building blocks of painting –­...

Drop in & Draw - Travel Journaling

Joumana Ismail

Drop in & Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing as...

Youth x Hub: Portrait Life Drawing

Natalia Lasso

Join this dynamic session to discover how to plan your drawing quickly and expressively using a life model. Learn how to master composition, proportion and volume to create portraits that reflect the ...

Drop in and Draw (Comic Book Edition)

Sarah Alfarhan

Drop in & Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing as...

Spring Camp 2018: Introduction to Geometric Patterns (Week 2)

This introductory workshop will cover the practice of Geometrical patterns in traditional and ancestral technique. By using rulers and compasses only, participants will learn how to create intricate a...

Spring Camp 2018 (Week 2)

Tamsin Wildy, Salim Ahmed, Natalia Lasso, Ibrahim Zaki

Tashkeel’s annual Spring Camp 2018 will be offering even more challenging and creative workshops for young people this year. From Painting to 3D sculptures, young people will learn new skills; meet ne...

Spring Camp 2018: Monochrome Painting (Week 2)

Tamsin Wildy

What happens when you strip colour away. Imagine if we could only see one colour at a time and everything worked in tones? In this workshop, participants will make a painting using just one colour. Li...

Language of Flowers - A Botanical Workshop

Jennifer Ipekel

During this workshop, participants will be asked to think about time, exploring the secret language of nature in an animalistic perspective.

Drop in and Draw

Sarah Alfarhan

Drop in & Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing as...

Drop in and Draw

Sarah Alfarhan

Drop in and Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing ...

Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits

Natalia Lasso

The aim of this workshop is to produce portrait from a photograph that demonstrates an understanding of how to incorporate proportion, composition and structure but also volume.