Chinese Painting – Year of the Dragon at GRUB

Name: Chinese Painting - Year of the Dragon at GRUB
Start: 2024-02-10T13:00:00
End: 2024-02-10T15:30:00
Location: GRUB Manchester

Creative Tourist Posted 17 January 2024

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Chinese Painting - Year of the Dragon

GRUB Manchester, Manchester

10 February 2024

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

From £27.80

Dragon Painting — Photo and panting by Ula Fung

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Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with Floating Art, as they run a Chinese Bamboo brush painting workshop at GRUB.

In this beginner friendly workshop you’ll learn how to paint using bamboo brushes, Chinese ink and mineral paint onto rice paper.

This workshop will be broken down into multiple sessions which will each begin with a teacher demonstration from our founder and teacher Ula Fung. Originally from Hong Kong, Ula is a local practising artist with over 15 years of teaching experience.

2022 Lunar New Year painting — Floating Art – Ula Fung

This workshop is suitable for beginners up.

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