Beginners
Beginner-level courses are specifically aimed at the Absolute-beginner and Beginner students starting out on their creative learning journey.
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Begin to draw + paint
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The absolute-beginners guide to starting art. Banish your worries or confusion and learn to enjoy your drawing and painting.
Learn how to start drawing and painting with step by step demonstrations, practical exercises, and insightful tips.Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners
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Realistic drawing L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The perfect place to start improving core drawing and observational skills to draw accurately and realistically from life. Learn new drawing practices that will improve your ability to draw with more realism and detail. Learn measuring techniques to observe proportions, angles and relationships with greater accuracy and a variety of techniques using graphite pencils and colour pencils to render surface detail and material quality of different surfaces such as leather, fabric, glass, and fruit.
The course will give students new levels of drawing confidence with skills that will form the foundation upon which all future drawing and painting will be built on.
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Expressive drawing L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
Take control of the creative process and create drawings that express a unique artistic vision. Students will progress and enhance their existing drawing skills learning to embrace a personally self-expressive vision. Learning new creative techniques and approaches will enable students to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret their chosen subject matter.
Projects use a variety of different drawing materials and techniques to enable students to radically transform the still life arrangements into contemporary-styled self-expressive drawings.
Suitable for: Adults, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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Acrylic painting L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The perfect place to start learning to use acrylics paints.
Students are taught about the properties of acrylic paint and the appropriate equipment to use.
Exercises and projects are based on traditional still life arrangements and help students learn about colour theory, brush control, and a range of other techniques.Suitable for:
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Art + Creativity
£350.00Monday morning 10-sessions
Grow and develop self-confidence and start flourishing as a creative artist.
This art and creativity course teaches fundamental drawing skills, a range of creative techniques, and ways of developing individual self-expression. Students will be encouraged to develop a contemporary personal approach to making art.Combine a trilogy of individual 10-week terms into a 30-week academic year. Each 10-session term focuses on a different aspect of art + creative skills.
The Drawing Skills and Materials Techniques courses can be booked in any order, but must be completed before booking the 3rd Self-expression course. Select the ‘Term options’ drop-down menu to choose.
For individual flexibility students have the option of completing the full course in a single year or spreading it out over 2 or 3 years.
Suitable for:
Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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The Art Elements
£210.00Evening course 6-sessions
The Art Elements are what drawings and paintings are made of.
Gain important insights into how to improve the use of Line, Colour, Tone + Form, Texture, Shape and Pattern.
Learn how they affect picture-making and how to manipulate them. This is the vital first step to improving as an artist.Suitable for:
Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
Dunni Makanju
9 May 2022 @ 1:24 pm
Hi,
Are there any plans for the Art + Creativity courses to also have evenings schedules? I’m an absolute beginner, work 9 to 5 and so can’t do Monday mornings.
Kind regards,
Dunni
artfulantics
10 May 2022 @ 9:14 pm
Hi Dunni
Thanks for getting in touch. This course is only on Monday mornings, but I would recommend the weekend Begin to draw + paint course designed especially for absolute beginners, or the Thursday evening Art Elements course suitable for beginners. I hope this helps, but email me directly if you have any further questions. Regards, Brian
Rupali Goyal
7 September 2021 @ 11:04 am
Hi
I want to know if you teach oil painting and portraits? How long your classes are?please can you provide more information about the classes.
Thanks,
Rupali Goyal.
artfulantics
7 September 2021 @ 9:08 pm
Hi Rupali
Our courses run over a weekend (sat + Sun) or over 6 Thursday evenings. We offer lots of different classes including acrylic painting, but we don’t offer oil painting or specialist portrait classes. However there is a portrait project during the weekend acrylic level 2 course.
I hope this helps. Feel free to email me directly if you have any further questions. Kind regards
Brian