Name: Learn to draw a map (of a real place)
Start: 2024-06-01T14:00:0001:00
Location: Elvet & Bailey, 23 High Street, Prince Bishops Place, Durham, DH1 3UJ

Learn the fundamentals of drawing a map of a real place by hand from artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan.
The workshop will cover the following:
- Planning a map and the stages of drawing
- Transferring real geography onto your map
- Calligraphy of place names
- Adding decorations, e.g. banners, compass roses, flags etc.
- Drawing geography, e.g. towns/buildings, trees, mountains, rivers, shorelines
- Adding a decorative title and decorative border
Ticket cost: £10, suitable for age 12+.
You will be given these supplies to keep:
- 3 black ‘fineliner’ drawing pens of different thicknesses
- 1 black calligraphy pen
- 1 mechanical pencil
- 3 sheets of thick A3-size paper for drawing
Other supplies (rulers, stencils, erasers, etc) will be available to share, and feel free to bring your own drawing supplies too!
IMPORTANT: Please email Kevin Sheehan by 28 May - [email protected] - noting the place you want to draw a map of, so a printout map (A4 size) of the place (from Open Street Map) can be provided to you. Or, bring an A4 size printout yourself.