Map a real place, or create your version of an existing fantasy map

Name: Map a real place, or create your version of an existing fantasy map
Start: 2026-06-06T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Elvet & Bailey, 23 High Street, Prince Bishops Place, Durham, DH1 3UJ

Schedule

Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Elvet & Bailey, 23 High Street, Prince Bishops Place, Durham, DH1 3UJ | Durham, EN

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: £25, 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: when you book you will need to state which place you want to draw a map of. Kevin will prepare an OpenSteetMaps map for you to copy at the workshop.