Past Workshops

Fruitful Prints

Azim Al Ghussein

This workshop with artist Azim Al Ghussein will explore the makings of a 4-colour print using Tashkeel’s Risograph.

Commercial Illustration

Nora Zeid

Join Nora Zeid in this workshop on illustrating for commercial projects. Nora will explore the basics of creating designs for clients: from when the client contacts the designer to when the work is de...

Afterschool Arts Club: Sound Illustration

Diego Mendoza

Attention! Art challenge! Attention! Participants will think about how to illustrate sound and how to translate sounds to visual language. They will explore the sounds of a city and how those sounds c...

Digital Illustration

Nora Zeid

Join this digital illustration workshop led by artist Nora Zeid, who will go over the basics of digital illustration: from layout and rough sketching to creating line art and adding colour. Participan...

Overlay 2.0

Chafa Ghaddar

Overlay is to lay something over a surface, to cover it with a coating, to build upon it by addition and accumulation. How does this translate from an art medium to the other? And how could overlay be...

Drop in & Draw: Ephemera

Khalid Mezaina

In this session, Khalid Mezaina will focus on filling the pages of participants' sketchbooks with drawings, writings and ephemera that relate to memories, observations, and stories about people, place...

Summer Camp 2021 (8 - 11 years): Collage with Pattern

Azim Al Ghussein

Patterns speak! Did you know patterns and textures have meaning and create feelings? In this illustration workshop with Azim Al Ghussein, children draw inspiration from textures and patterns unique to...

Spring Camp 2021: Stamping Rugs

Create your own printed rug in this Stamping Rugs workshop with artist Khalid Mezaina!

Spring Camp 2021: Making Books

Have you ever heard of an origami book? This workshop by artist Muna Al Marashi will guide participants through the steps of making a beautiful origami book with square pieces of paper.

Spring Camp 2021

Zahra Jewenjee, Azim Al Ghussein, Rania Naccour, Muna Al Marashi, Khalid Mezaina

Resuming our classic camp format, Tashkeel will be welcoming young people aged 8-12 for in-person workshops at Tashkeel Nad Al Sheba. Participants will engage in various art activities covering stampi...

Comic & Sequential Drawing

Mohammed Al Shaibani

Build the basic skills you need to be a cartoonist in this free 3-hour workshop with Emirati artist Mohammad Alshaibani.

Afterschool Arts Club: Splatter Drawings

For the last Afterschool Arts Club workshop, the participants will be encouraged to let go and use paint, paper and dry drawing tools to create figurative work.