To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is best, you will see Teaching Levels on each of the course pages above the ‘Add to cart’ button.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions and lots of one-to-one tuition on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For those students who have never done any art as an adult or perhaps may have dabbled a little many years ago. Teaching focuses on fundamental core skills, leading students step by step, with loads of 1:1 support and guidance.
Level 1: Beginner
For those students who have done very little art or are returning to art after a long break and feel they need to gain a foundation in the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills with tutor-led exercises on use of materials and techniques
Level 2: Improver
For those students who have done some art learning, draw or paint occasionally at home or attend an art group, and feel they need to improve beyond their grasp of the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills, understanding and use of the Art Elements + Principles, materials + techniques, with tutor-led exercises and mini projects.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students who have learnt the basic techniques, have gained some level of artistic confidence and are seeking to develop their skills further to create more complex or larger-scale artwork.
Teaching focuses on developing art skills, creative techniques and individual styles, students’ ability to self-assess their work, encouraging experimentation, with tutor-led exercises and time for extended projects with the benefit of group critiques.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell.
Teaching focuses on guiding students in developing their own ideas and self-directed practice, through enhancing personal skills and techniques and encouraging a deeper contextual awareness with the benefit of one-to-one tutorials.
Art + Creativity
£350.00
Priced per term
Grow and develop self-confidence and start flourishing as a creative artist.
This art and creativity course teaches fundamental drawing skills and a range of creative techniques. Students will be encouraged to develop a contemporary personal approach to making art.
Each 10-session term focuses on a different range of essential art + creative skills. They can be completed in any order – Drawing skills; Material Techniques; Self-expression. Select the ‘Term options’ drop down menu to choose.
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Monday 10 – 12.30pm x 10 session term
Course Structure
Please read carefully
Information here over-rides similar information in the ‘Course info’ tab.
Course information
Group size
Please read the Studio COVID-SECURE procedures: Click here >
__________________________________
Drawing skills
Banish your creative worries and learn to draw with enjoyment and confidence.
Learn technical skills and creative use of materials
Learn techniques to get proportions correct, perspective in easy steps, how to shade and use tone, and create exciting compositions. Take your first steps to learning a range of materials including graphite, charcoal, pastels, and acrylic paint.
Supportive teaching
An encouraging, patient and inclusive approach to teaching with lots of one-to-one support will benefit everyone, even those students who fear the worst!
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Sketchbook mark-making mini-project
Class 2
Adopting the right approach to drawing to guarantee improved results
Class 3
Measuring techniques for greater drawing accuracy
Class 4
Drawing with tone and shading to add depth and dimensionality
Class 5
Creating 3D form and depth
Class 6
Rendering space and linear perspective
Class 7
Working with colour
Class 8
Creative approach to composition
Class 9
Grabbing attention by creating a dynamic focal point
Class 10
Self-directed still life drawing project
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Drawing Skills term…
Students will feel confident they have developed greater skill in looking, seeing and rendering objects accurately while establishing their creative foundations in using the Art Elements of colour, tone, line and mark-making. Students will have the skills and techniques to enable them to continue developing and growing as artists.
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Material Techniques
Develop a creative, flexible and more self-expressive approach to drawing. Learn to how to use a range of creative materials and develop confidence in manipulating them for greater self-expression.
Learn expressive drawing and creative confidence
Take a break from drawing with accuracy and realism while you allow the personality and qualities of different art materials nurture your imagination. Learn to trust your artistic intuition, and the value of creative play. Gaining confidence in the fundamentals of using different art materials will re-energise your drawing skills beyond your expectations.
Personal creative development
Lots of one-to-one support enables students to explore new directions and styles in their art and start the journey to developing a personal individual style.
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Collage – introduction to painting with paper
Class 2
Drawing with graphite and pencil to explore the potential of monochrome tones and textures
Class 3
Explore the power and freedom of drawing with charcoal
Class 4
Embrace the rich colours and flexibility of painting with soft pastels
Class 5
Rediscover the joy and flexibility of drawing with oil pastels
Class 6
Discover the language and qualities of acrylic paint
Class 7
Learn the classic techniques of using a dip pen and watercolour washes
Class 8
Embrace the freedom of drawing and painting with water soluble materials such as graphite and colour pencils
Class 9
Explore transparent glazes with colourful drawing inks
Class 10
Develop a deeper appreciation of how to plan your own projects – mixed/multiple media project
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Materials + Techniques term…
Students will feel creatively enthused and confident in their use of different art materials and will have embraced the use of artists-sketchbooks to help them develop their creative ideas.
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
thick paper is best
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Self-expression
Immerse yourself in mini creative projects that allow students to explore the themes of still life, landscape and the human form. Teaching and demonstrations will show students how to experiment and develop their own creative projects so they never run out of ideas of what to do next!
The key to an artist’s sketchbook
Students will learn techniques and methods to develop their own unique artist’s sketchbook that will help drive creativity forward. Embrace a new level of creative-confidence in generating new ideas, experimenting with techniques to uncover a uniquely personal artistic style.
Creative self-confidence
Encouraging and supportive teaching with plenty of time for creative experimentation with a chance to try out ideas will enable students to become the independent artist they want to be.
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Developing ideas to expand your creativity. Learn how to create themed project pages
Class 2 + 3
Create a sense of freedom and flow in still life drawings using oil pastels with transparent layers and off-set images
Class 4 + 5
Imaginative landscapes in mixed media and acrylic paint
Class 6 + 7
Travel a journey from realism to abstraction exploring ways of creating exciting abstract art
Class 8 + 9
Improve your understanding of the human form through sectional studies of your own figure; and self-portraits in pencil, graphite and soft chalk pastels
Class 10
Personal creative project with guidance and support from the tutor
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Creative self-expression term…
Students will have developed skills to enable them to drive forward their own creative ideas and self-led projects. They will have the creative self-confidence to use a wide range of techniques and materials to express their own creativity in an individual style
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
hardback cover, spiral bound if possible
thick cartridge paper
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Helpful info + Guidance
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is best, you will see Teaching Levels on each of the course pages above the ‘Add to cart’ button.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions and lots of one-to-one tuition on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For those students who have never done any art as an adult or perhaps may have dabbled a little many years ago. Teaching focuses on fundamental core skills, leading students step by step, with loads of 1:1 support and guidance.
Level 1: Beginner
For those students who have done very little art or are returning to art after a long break and feel they need to gain a foundation in the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills with tutor-led exercises on use of materials and techniques
Level 2: Improver
For those students who have done some art learning, draw or paint occasionally at home or attend an art group, and feel they need to improve beyond their grasp of the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills, understanding and use of the Art Elements + Principles, materials + techniques, with tutor-led exercises and mini projects.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students who have learnt the basic techniques, have gained some level of artistic confidence and are seeking to develop their skills further to create more complex or larger-scale artwork.
Teaching focuses on developing art skills, creative techniques and individual styles, students’ ability to self-assess their work, encouraging experimentation, with tutor-led exercises and time for extended projects with the benefit of group critiques.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell.
Teaching focuses on guiding students in developing their own ideas and self-directed practice, through enhancing personal skills and techniques and encouraging a deeper contextual awareness with the benefit of one-to-one tutorials.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels (eg: Level 1, Level 2, or mixed ability).
Student Quotes
More reviews >
Waiting list
__________________________________________
Course Structure
Please read carefully
Information here over-rides similar information in the ‘Course info’ tab.
Course information
Group size
Please read the Studio COVID-SECURE procedures: Click here >
__________________________________
Drawing skills
Banish your creative worries and learn to draw with enjoyment and confidence.
Learn technical skills and creative use of materials
Learn techniques to get proportions correct, perspective in easy steps, how to shade and use tone, and create exciting compositions. Take your first steps to learning a range of materials including graphite, charcoal, pastels, and acrylic paint.
Supportive teaching
An encouraging, patient and inclusive approach to teaching with lots of one-to-one support will benefit everyone, even those students who fear the worst!
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Sketchbook mark-making mini-project
Class 2
Adopting the right approach to drawing to guarantee improved results
Class 3
Measuring techniques for greater drawing accuracy
Class 4
Drawing with tone and shading to add depth and dimensionality
Class 5
Creating 3D form and depth
Class 6
Rendering space and linear perspective
Class 7
Working with colour
Class 8
Creative approach to composition
Class 9
Grabbing attention by creating a dynamic focal point
Class 10
Self-directed still life drawing project
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Drawing Skills term…
Students will feel confident they have developed greater skill in looking, seeing and rendering objects accurately while establishing their creative foundations in using the Art Elements of colour, tone, line and mark-making. Students will have the skills and techniques to enable them to continue developing and growing as artists.
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Material Techniques
Develop a creative, flexible and more self-expressive approach to drawing. Learn to how to use a range of creative materials and develop confidence in manipulating them for greater self-expression.
Learn expressive drawing and creative confidence
Take a break from drawing with accuracy and realism while you allow the personality and qualities of different art materials nurture your imagination. Learn to trust your artistic intuition, and the value of creative play. Gaining confidence in the fundamentals of using different art materials will re-energise your drawing skills beyond your expectations.
Personal creative development
Lots of one-to-one support enables students to explore new directions and styles in their art and start the journey to developing a personal individual style.
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Collage – introduction to painting with paper
Class 2
Drawing with graphite and pencil to explore the potential of monochrome tones and textures
Class 3
Explore the power and freedom of drawing with charcoal
Class 4
Embrace the rich colours and flexibility of painting with soft pastels
Class 5
Rediscover the joy and flexibility of drawing with oil pastels
Class 6
Discover the language and qualities of acrylic paint
Class 7
Learn the classic techniques of using a dip pen and watercolour washes
Class 8
Embrace the freedom of drawing and painting with water soluble materials such as graphite and colour pencils
Class 9
Explore transparent glazes with colourful drawing inks
Class 10
Develop a deeper appreciation of how to plan your own projects – mixed/multiple media project
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Materials + Techniques term…
Students will feel creatively enthused and confident in their use of different art materials and will have embraced the use of artists-sketchbooks to help them develop their creative ideas.
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
thick paper is best
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Self-expression
Immerse yourself in mini creative projects that allow students to explore the themes of still life, landscape and the human form. Teaching and demonstrations will show students how to experiment and develop their own creative projects so they never run out of ideas of what to do next!
The key to an artist’s sketchbook
Students will learn techniques and methods to develop their own unique artist’s sketchbook that will help drive creativity forward. Embrace a new level of creative-confidence in generating new ideas, experimenting with techniques to uncover a uniquely personal artistic style.
Creative self-confidence
Encouraging and supportive teaching with plenty of time for creative experimentation with a chance to try out ideas will enable students to become the independent artist they want to be.
Term dates
Select the ‘Term options’ at the top of the page to see specific term dates
Class Content
Class 1
Developing ideas to expand your creativity. Learn how to create themed project pages
Class 2 + 3
Create a sense of freedom and flow in still life drawings using oil pastels with transparent layers and off-set images
Class 4 + 5
Imaginative landscapes in mixed media and acrylic paint
Class 6 + 7
Travel a journey from realism to abstraction exploring ways of creating exciting abstract art
Class 8 + 9
Improve your understanding of the human form through sectional studies of your own figure; and self-portraits in pencil, graphite and soft chalk pastels
Class 10
Personal creative project with guidance and support from the tutor
Note: session plans may change to respond to the needs of the group
By the end of the Creative self-expression term…
Students will have developed skills to enable them to drive forward their own creative ideas and self-led projects. They will have the creative self-confidence to use a wide range of techniques and materials to express their own creativity in an individual style
Students are encouraged to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week further developing the creative projects started during the studio sessions. However, it will not detract from the course learning if students do not have the extra time.
Becoming a member of the AVA art group that meet in the studio on a Wednesday afternoon is a great way to ‘protect’ additional creative time. Attending each week to work on the creative projects will give students the space, time and support from fellow group members that is needed to help develop skills and creative confidence.
CLICK HERE>
Days: Monday x 10 per term
Times: 10-12.30pm
Academic year: 30 weeks (3 terms x 10-classes)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
hardback cover, spiral bound if possible
thick cartridge paper
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 25 Sheets
250gsm
Mixed Media Spiral Pad 30 sheets
250gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Helpful info + Guidance
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is best, you will see Teaching Levels on each of the course pages above the ‘Add to cart’ button.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions and lots of one-to-one tuition on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For those students who have never done any art as an adult or perhaps may have dabbled a little many years ago. Teaching focuses on fundamental core skills, leading students step by step, with loads of 1:1 support and guidance.
Level 1: Beginner
For those students who have done very little art or are returning to art after a long break and feel they need to gain a foundation in the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills with tutor-led exercises on use of materials and techniques
Level 2: Improver
For those students who have done some art learning, draw or paint occasionally at home or attend an art group, and feel they need to improve beyond their grasp of the basic techniques.
Teaching focuses on core skills, understanding and use of the Art Elements + Principles, materials + techniques, with tutor-led exercises and mini projects.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students who have learnt the basic techniques, have gained some level of artistic confidence and are seeking to develop their skills further to create more complex or larger-scale artwork.
Teaching focuses on developing art skills, creative techniques and individual styles, students’ ability to self-assess their work, encouraging experimentation, with tutor-led exercises and time for extended projects with the benefit of group critiques.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell.
Teaching focuses on guiding students in developing their own ideas and self-directed practice, through enhancing personal skills and techniques and encouraging a deeper contextual awareness with the benefit of one-to-one tutorials.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels (eg: Level 1, Level 2, or mixed ability).
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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