Weekend art courses
Weekend courses for all experience levels to help you grow and develop as aspiring artists
Choose from a wide range of weekend art courses and workshops – all with outstanding teaching and lots of 1:1 support.
Our monthly morning or afternoon weekend art classes are a fab treat every month. Our 1-day workshops are great if you are looking for a quick burst of inspiration. Our 2-day courses offer you a wide range of learning across different styles, themes and techniques from urban sketching, still life and abstract art.
Our 3-day extended courses enable you to fully immerse yourself in learning a variety of essential foundational skills and techniques.
1 day workshops
Sat or Sun
Explore multi-layered mark-making, surfaces and textures
Book individually or together over a single weekend
Experimental drawing
1-day workshop, Saturday or Sunday
Explore drawing in its purest form to help expand your gesture and mark-making skills
Mixed-media textures
1-day workshop, Saturday or Sunday
Create tactile mixed-media textures using acrylics and a variety of materials and techniques
Experience the thrill of charcoal drawing and pen + ink wash mixed media
Book individually or together over a single weekend
Charcoal drawing
1-day workshop, Saturday or Sunday
Discover the freedom of gestural drawing with willow, and the drama of compressed charcoal
Pen + ink wash drawing
1-day workshop, Saturday or Sunday
Embrace the freedom of drawing with black Indian ink and colourful drawing ink using dip pens, natural sticks and brushes.
2 day courses
Sat – Sun
Begin to draw + paint
Weekend course 2-days
The absolute-beginners guide to starting art, drawing and painting
Creative sketchbooks
Weekend course 2-days
Unlock creativity, explore transformative new ideas, and find your unique voice by embracing the true power of your sketchbook
Abstract Art
Weekend course 2-days
Discover the key ingredients, materials and techniques to creating highly personal self-expressive abstract art.
Urban sketching Ancoats
Weekend course 2-days
Build confidence in technical and creative urban sketching techniques with a focus on drawing buildings
Dynamic Colour Mixing
Weekend course 2-days
A practical beginner’s guide to colour mixing. Gain confidence in mixing the colours you want when you want
3 day Foundation courses
Fri – Sun
Essential Drawing Foundations
Friday – Sunday 3-day course
A unique course teaching an innovative and creative approach to drawing that will form the foundation to all your future drawing
Life drawing Foundations
Friday – Sunday 3-day course
A unique life drawing course teaching an innovative and creative approach to drawing the figure that will form the foundation to all future life drawing

ERICA OSBORNE
24 June 2026 @ 1:45 pm
We went on the drawing foundations course and my drawing has been greatly improved thanks to the 3 days. Strongly recommend. I feel a much greater confidence with observing subjects and creating marks that reflect those observations. I haven’t stopped drawing since….
Mrs Wendy P Heaton
26 November 2025 @ 8:26 am
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