Collection of student’s comments, course feedback + reviews from almost every course delivered by Creative Art Courses since 2012
“A fabulous way to explore your inner creativity and have a play with ideas and materials.” Ruth S I love teaching this course – encouraging and guiding students away from the realities they are faced with to discover a creative self-expressive style of drawing. It is so rewarding working through the creative challenges so that […]
So informative and filled with so much to learn, but in an environment that pushes you to be creative and build confidence. Izzy M I describe this course as opening the door to each of the Art Elements, giving students a good foundation to better understand the impact each art elements has in their artwork […]
I wanted to find out how to use a sketchbook to support developing art projects and it has done exactly this.” Cathy J This course gives students a structure to working in their sketchbooks. Artists use sketchbooks in a very specific way – to help drive forward and develop new ideas. Without a clear direction, […]
Colour mixing in the future has been made a lot easier. Gary L Colour is so amazing and enigmatic I always look forward to teaching this beginners course to colour mixing. It always amazes me how little colour theory is taught in schools and colleges, yet is so important in enabling artists to create their […]
“Detailed exploration of charcoal and two challenging projects. Barbara B With charcoal being one of my own favourite materials I always look forward to teaching this 1-day workshop. I love the way charcoal so easily engages students and encourages them to be bolder and more expressive than they may otherwise be. The drawing results were amazing […]
“Really nice pace, supportive, friendly especially for a real beginner.” Katy M Great to be back teaching the absolute-beginners course. So much potential in the studio – I just love teaching this course guiding and supporting those new to art in the basics of drawing and using a variety of different materials. Their enthusiasm for […]
“Such a well balanced creative outlet with lots of opportunity to explore materials.” Vicky F As a teacher it was fabulous having the opportunity to continue supporting the students over an extended period of time. The majority of the class group were students who started the course in January and have now completed 20 of […]
“Great intro to urban sketching. Learned loads and lots of practice with composing pictures, measuring, shading and using watercolours. Darren B A fabulous weekend for drawing outdoors on location – spectacular Manchester weather meant we were able to make the most of outdoor sketching in the heart of historical Ancoats surrounded by historical buildings and […]
“Challenging but immensely rewarding.” Joe H We enjoyed a lovely weekend focusing on detail and structure. This course is always quieter and calmer than some of my other courses as more time is needed for focused concentration to achieve the high level of detail that is required to draw realistically. With a small group I […]
“Brilliant, learned loads. As a complete beginner I was apprehensive, but it was even better than I’d hoped.” Helen E This has been an amazing course to teach and support students to grow and develop as artists. All the students have given so much of thir enthusiasm and dedication on all the exercises and tasks […]
The materials day was exactly what I was after and I feel inspired and armed with knowledge to keep my experimentation and exploring going outside of the course.” Marli R It was great to be back in the studio after the Easter holidays with a full studio of students looking to get the foundations to […]
“I expected to learn how to draw and experience an object, but the course took it further … I learnt more than I ever expected.” Amrinda C I love teaching this course – another chance to talk about the ideas from Heather Spears’ book that inspired me so much and take a group of students […]
“You definitely gain information that you didn’t have before. You will enjoy a relaxed environment and gain experience. Jean G This was a small group of very keen students. Two had done the level 1 course. The others had not but showed great enthusiasm to improve their acrylic painting skills. In this course, students are […]
“The course was fun, educational, friendly, full of ideas to use at home to develop textures in the future.” Pam B This was the first 1-day version of the original 2-day weekend course on Mixed Media Textures. The new format worked a treat and the studio was awash with materials, experimentation and exploration of new […]
“I really enjoyed the course today. It was exactly what I needed to free up my creativity. Great teaching and a relaxing environment.” Kate W A wonderful creative day in the studio teaching one of the free-est and experimental of all the courses I offer – mark-making. Students embraced the ‘try-it-and-see’ attitude required for quality […]
