2017 is the year to upgrade your skills! Make the most out of your illustrations with tips, tricks and techniques surrounding the sometimes daunting world of graphic markers and technical drawing pens with Cherie Buttons.

We’ve handpicked some of Brisbane’s finest artists and blackbook damagers to come for a chilled out sketch session at Ironlak Art & Design Brisbane. Bring along your blackbook, trade sketches, ideas, meet and sketch with the artists.

This workshop will draw you into the world of typography, text, and words. Playing with text as a visual medium you will discover the power of arrangement of type through font, point sizes, line and letter-spacing, and how text can be used as a decorative device and subtle form of communication.
Participants will learn useful design principles to apply to their work, plus the opportunity to get hands-on and be guided through the process of letter craft. Participants will take home their final pieces of lettering.

In this workshop you will learn the art of Slap Ups. Participants will be guided through a number of activities in image making and manipulation through to creating and Slapping Up on our pop up Graf wall.
Slap Ups (AKA Sticker Art) have played an important role in street art culture as a way to cross pollinate between mediums and creative movements. Through techniques such as collage and image manipulation, Slap-Ups have provided a platform for street artists to create unique imagery that attempts to subvert the commercial nature of mass media.
Slap Up artists often trade their work with one another in order to expand the reach and scope of distribution within their communities. An artist’s stickers may be distributed through this worldwide network and end up in places they themselves have never traveled to.

In this workshop you will learn and create your own 3–4 page zine.
A zine is typically a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.
Street art is part of an independent attitude and movement of creative expression, and zines are an important element of this community, capturing the attitudes and creative work through the lens of the authors. Zines are the perfect tool to build and support community, as well as a great voice for the voiceless. Poets and visual artists have also used zines as a cheap and unique way to showcase their work.

Want to create your own robotic art? Join this fun, fast paced and hands-on workshop to learn how to build and code a Lego NXT robot to draw your own tag!
Suitable for ages 10—16

Story Carousel is a participatory creative project with expressive and reflective experience at its heart. Come along to the drop-in workshop and add your story to this creative project. Through the workshop participants are asked to share experiences & stories as they create a clay model that represents their stories. Once the models are dry, they are displayed in the Carousel of Stories installation located in the ReForm precinct.

Learn to create a variety of technical effects using a combination of Ironlak, Sugar Artists Acrylic and Ironlak paint marker products.

Learn to create a variety of technical effects using Sugar Artists Acrylic and Ironlak paint markers. This is a beginner level class covering a range of methods of application. Have a great time learning how to use aerosols and paint markers on our Ironlak Canvas to create something out of this world!
Shared art materials will be supplied for use. If you would like art materials to take home then our store will be open on the day so you can purchase your favourite items. You will be able to take home your completed artwork at the conclusion of the workshop however it may still be wet. We recommend coming to collect your artwork in the days
following the workshop.

Learn how to use graphic markers properly with the famous Buttons! Learn how to use the Ironlak strikers, finish work and improve techniques. Buttons will guide you through and show you useful tips and tricks to making sure you are getting the most out of your product and show off your skill.
Shared art materials will be supplied for use. You will be able to take home your completed artwork at the conclusion of the workshop. If you would like art materials to take home then our store will be open on the day so you can purchase your favourite items.