WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Painting with wood: using real wood veneers to create pictures and patterns. Learn how to cut and assemble veneers, taking advantage of colour, grain direction and natural characteristics to create beautiful motifs, either as a stand-alone piece of art, or as part of another object such as a chess board or trinket box. Discover some of the tricks used in creating a picture to lift a design from the mundane.
You will learn the basic skills of marquetry and parquetry, how to select and use different natural wood veneers to create your desired motif, and how to mount and finish it. You can make a memento of your own design to take away with you, together with a sense of accomplishment and a desire to do more.
Marquetry is a craft requiring just a few simple tools and can generally be done at the kitchen table.