🎨 Paint & Sip 🥂 Wellbeing Session with Westside BID
To encourage Birmingham Westside districts workers to focus on themselves and switch off, attendees sketched and painted portraits inspired by the nearby bench featuring Black Sabbath, the godfathers of rock. In a picturesque, relaxed setting by the canal, attendees learnt basic drawing and painting techniques and spent the time picking up new skills and switch off from their regular work day.
🖼️ Just viewing art releases dopamine: the pleasure chemical ✅
✍️ Drawing reduces stress and anxiety ✅
🧠 Drawing also increases psychological resilience, whilst helping to develop analytical and problem-solving skills ✅
🎨 Watercolour & Wine 🥂 at Resorts World Birmingham
🌸 Paint & Prosecco 🥂 Mother’s Day weekend at Resorts World Birmingham
Pick some flowers in the secret garden to inspire a perfect hand-painted gift for Mother’s Day, with guidance from Birmingham artist and illustrator Milan Topalovic!
The 2-hour workshops at Sky by the Water started with a short introduction to acrylic paints, a sunset-gradient blending challenge followed by a botanical blossom print as the main takeaway of the session
“Lovely relaxing 2 hours celebrating Mother’s Day with my daughter. Friendly artist Milan guided us through a spring flower picture...who knew we could paint!”
💁♀️ Volunteers Wellbeing Workshop at The Coffin Works ⚒️ Birmingham
I was invited to run a festive session for volunteers and staff at The Coffin Works in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. We painted up Christmas decorations using vintage winter graphics, crumbing mince pies under the fairy lights and over the paints.
🎨 Art on the Water ⚓️ Birmingham Heritage Week
with Roundhouse Birmingham
Join us for a canal boat trip with a difference; sketching and drawing Birmingham’s beautiful waterways with Birmingham Illustrator Milan Topalovic. A perfect and peaceful way to explore Brum by water, with plenty of scenic inspiration for your own artwork.
We’ll start with a short drawing session at the Roundhouse, before stepping into the open-air cargo hold of a 1930’s heritage working boat for a relaxing trip around Birmingham’s canal loops. There will be two stops along the canal to get some more intensive drawing in. Visit the original event page here.
🧘 Wellbeing Week: Drawing Portraits ✍️ at Selfridges Birmingham
A short presentation about the benefits of drawing to mental health and wellbeing was followed by observational exercises, a short warm-up and a loose biro portrait!
