Where to practice creative hobbies Languedoc Roussillon

At the exit of Nîmes, on the old road of Montpellier, you will find in this "mini supermarket" all the material necessary for your artistic practice. Water paintings, oil or acrylic, canvas, paper, latex for molding, clay for modelling, brush and other scissors will allow you to indulge in your passion, casual or professional. Products are sold wholesale and in detail and vendors, if there are not too many people, you will be aiguilleront in your choices. Another shop, smaller and more user-friendly, is located in downtown (8 rue des Marchands).

Paintball Pro is a leisure park dedicated to paintball and laser games. With 55,000m2 of terrain, it offers an adrenalin-filled experience for fans of these activities. In addition to paintball and laser games, the park also offers archery games, an activity that combines archery and paintball. Paintball Pro places great emphasis on safety, with specially trained staff on hand to guide players and a video briefing to explain the rules and how the games are played. The equipment used meets safety standards, and the park uses only biodegradable paintballs.

For a dozen, Atelier Couture members design clothes while exchanging their know-how. It is this association that dresses her majesty Carnival and participants in the parade. Throughout the year you can learn to carry out dresses, jackets, pajamas, curtains, furniture coatings.

A small workshop but great ideas on colours and materials is the credo of the Emporte Association. Accompanied by the moderator, children are invited to create their "explorer books" and play all the things: collage, painting painting, mosaic, jewelry. On the basis of two Wednesdays a month, the calendar is fast filled and the works have time to dry! Adults are not forgotten: evening workshops on the same dates as children (18 h to 20 h) are reserved. Flexibility in the organization, mixed sessions (children-adults) allow to evolve together on the same theme. On Saturday, internships on free theme, to be determined during registration are developed on antique mosaic, fresco or patinas, mould moulding, résine détournement, etc.

A good idea for the holidays, the collective workshops of plastic arts with a family! In free and free access, they welcome, on the first floor, large and large, according to a schedule on the monthly programme of the activities of the Audiovisual Library. The museum also organizes plastic testing workshops for children between the ages of 5 and 14 who take place on Wednesday afternoons and during holidays for individuals and groups from Tuesday to Friday by appointment.

Gaspard Brasier, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, has opened Les Ateliers Léonard just 10 minutes from the center of Montpellier. His Faubourg-Boutonnet studio is the ideal place to start or perfect your drawing and painting skills. From art classes to comics and painting, her aim is to enable her students - from 20 months, teenagers and adults - to find pleasure and freedom in artistic creation. The program also includes lectures on art history, manga and fashion design.

Colette Lenciani is a passionate artist who has been painting since her early youth. After having tried several techniques, the artist, in love with nature, turned to oil painting with a knife, her favorite, realizing luminous paintings. Pastel and watercolor are sometimes her other artistic expressions. Attached to share her passion, within the Atelier Bleu Indigo, living workshop of artists, she organizes punctual demonstrations of various techniques, training courses" discovery of the painting with the knife" and "aperitifs painting"...

From Monday to Wednesday, he proposes to a public of young and less young courses to learn how to express his creativity by all possible media and imaginable. The association periodically organises courses for modelling and sculpture, classes of calligraphy and pointillism. On site, next to an audiovisual library, which allows you to learn more about the history of modern and contemporary art and artistic practices, a permanent gallery presents exhibitions.

Following ancient medieval methods, master craftsmen, glass, Frank and Christine Boitel, perpetuate the ancestral quality of tinted glass. To rehabilitate an art sublimated by light, to give the taste of the day this many centuries old know-how and integrate it into our contemporary habitats is a luxury today affordable. The workshop offers artists glass all the necessary equipment: glass, tools, metals, chemicals, also supplies for your creations in lead stained glass stained glass windows, Tiffany windows but also knocked, opalescents or colorescents glasses, adhesive copper, tin… to Bohle oven, with regulator. Fusing or tailor courses are organized as well as giovanna artists will also find their happiness: glass cutting, pinces and glass pieces to the unit.

A shop shop adjacent to the cinema, the Semaphore, where the bookbinder craftsman manufactures in situ books and small notebooks, which he markets. Interested persons can learn different techniques and participate in practical internships (6 hours application). To make binder of works to the old or manufacture manual and modern notebooks, you must learn to assemble the sheets, shape the covers. The effect result and often the quality comes closer to art editing. The other side of this workshop is the preservation of the old book, which is to resume page by page. A more sophisticated restoration work, which uses careful techniques.

The universities of fine arts (ESBA) are not reserved for only students. Classes and extra-curricular post for children and adults are open throughout the school year. Course of the evening in drawing, paintings and engravings are given in Nimes. €179.66 for Nîmois and €346.72 for non-smokers Nîmois! Wednesday, children from 7 years learn drawing while teenagers lean on the drawing of observation. Inscriptions are made from July. It is better not to linger because these courses are very taken. Educational quality of the public institution, interesting rates, free stay for the non taxable people... the place are quickly taken. Note that weekly cycles of conferences, with programs during the year are free and without registration.

These weekly workshops, which are held in the evening, will delight all those who wish to feed themselves on painting and exercise their talent. Addressing the different pictorial techniques, these art workshops offer a specific approach, through the study of different materials and supports, movements of bodies and objects, perpective, expression. Besides the acquisition of know-how, the practice of drawing, watercolour and ink, but also mixed techniques of painting, which mix gouache and acrylic for example, all this learning aims to awaken the graphic sensitivity of each, the creative meaning of the person. Teenagers and adults at its own pace.

Auralithe was created more than ten years ago with the aim of promoting art in all its forms through the creation and dissemination of performances, animation and pedagogy, in France and abroad. And more specifically: live the drawing and sculpture according to live models through workshops, internships and exhibitions. Drawing and sculpture, closely related disciplines, are addressed successively during a session: when a sculpture is completed, the next session is devoted to drawing, to deepen certain concepts. This association now has about beginner or confirmed members. They meet several times a week at two steps from the Boulevard du Jeu-de-Paume to tackle different kinds of sculptures: bas-relief, high relief and ronde. The workshops are moderated by Eric Chatalin, a sculptor trained at Charles Auffret in Reims, and then in the Decorative Arts of Paris. On a Sunday a month, Auralithe offers a 6-hour internship, with a living model, to deepen the techniques discussed.

This former, refurbished garage houses the works of three passionate artists, together with the same desire: share their art. Isabelle Marsala - painter -, Bocaj - painter - and Raymond Salvaje - photographer-publisher - are the masters of the places. For ten years, they have created, shared and spread art in all its forms. More than just a workshop, the Garage Workshop also houses a publishing house, «The belly and the eye», a house of record production and art books, and an exhibition room. It opens every month to the public for relaxation, presentations of artists from all walks of life, books of books or musical and even theatre interventions with the complicity of the La Vista theatre.

Since its creation in 1997, the Association has pursued its objective: to be an area of meetings and work for artists, to contribute to the development of the young contemporary creation on Montpellier. Visual artists benefit from a host structure allowing them to give free rein to their creation, enrich and find the means adapted to their achievements. The work workshops are fully customizable according to the projects, which facilitates exhibitions. The Aperto association lends its walls to six events a year, events as diverse as classic personal exhibitions or collective exhibitions of several weeks, strange "48 h" or crazy "Facades". The principle of "48 h" is to propose to visual artists to invest the exhibition space for two days. The "Facades" are light and ephemeral events designed by artists for the facade and windows of the association, a way of putting art on the street.

At the bend of an alley, we notice the beautiful workshop of Céramique de Thau. As you pass the door, you discover the work of the ceramist François Thirion. This pottery workshop plunges us into the universe of the Thau basin, its colors, its landscapes, its shapes and its animals. Shades of blue-green tinged with sand and ochre, his stoneware creations are inspired by his environment. François Thirion also runs workshops for beginners and advanced users of stoneware. Young and old alike can learn all the steps involved in creating a piece.

Founded in 1872 by Gustave FAYET, the Société des Beaux-Arts remains Béziers' leading fine arts association. It offers workshops in drawing, painting, watercolor, mixed media, photography and street art. Modeling and stone sculpture enthusiasts can also learn or improve their skills at the Maison Cordier. A veritable breeding ground for talent, every two years the association organizes the Salon International d'Arts Plastiques, in collaboration with the town. It's a not-to-be-missed event for art lovers of all levels.

The school is generally open to adults for courses in drawing, painting, modeling and sculpture. Every Wednesday, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Béziers offers art classes for children aged 9 to 14. Children can try their hand at painting, collage, pastel and sculpture... Themed workshops are held over one or two days during the school vacations. With ceramics workshops, even adults can express their creative spirit.

In their back-shop Florence and Michel organise creative courses, the patchwork in mind. It's crazy what can be achieved with small squares of cloth. So try the Christmas balls, your loved ones will be snowed.

In 1967, Dominique Imbert decided to install his workshop in Rape-le-Fort. Drawn by the work of the metal he forges, forge. This is where he draws his first chimney for his personal use. He reproduces it for some enthusiastic people and that's how Focus begins. Far from the photographs of the classic chimney, the true modern steel boxes, each model is a real work of art. An address not to be missed for lovers of design and contemporary creations.