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Creative sketchbooks
£140.00
Weekend course 2-days
Sketchbooks play a key part in developing and transforming creative ideas and techniques. This course will teach you sketchbook skills to enable your creativity and artistic vision to flourish.
Sketchbooks can be the powerhouse of your creativity. They have a logic and methodology to how they work. Learn how sketchbooks help artists collect ideas, experiment with techniques, and develop a creative vision. Discover exciting creative possibilities not previously considered.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
Course Structure
This course shows you the difference between an artist’s sketchbook, a journal, scrapbook or diary?
Students learn to develop themed ideas that link across multiple pages allowing creativity to flourish and new ideas to germinate. Students will work with mixed media techniques, learn how to deconstruct, and re-make their sketchbook into a personal response.
Personalising a sketchbook
Session 1
Students will explore the differences between keeping an artist’s sketchbook, journals and scrap books. Learn techniques about annotation, background textures, and clever ways of making structural changes to sketchbooks that reflect individual personality.
Developing a sketchbook attitude
Session 2
Observational drawing is key to exciting art and allowing drawings to ‘fail’ without feeling a failure. This attitude is the key to embracing experimentation within a sketchbook and will allow work to develop and progress.
Story telling in sketchbooks
Session 3
Learn techniques to enable imagery and ideas to thread and flow between pages developing visual stories through a sketchbook. Students learn about page composition and mixed-media techniques that encourage quality observational drawings.
Outside influence in a sketchbook
Session 4
Incorporating other artists work into a sketchbook has the power to transform existing ideas in unexpected directions. Students will work on a mini project developing their ideas towards an outcome of their choice – painting, sculpture, craft object, or design.
By the end of the course…
Students will have ideas and skills to transform their sketchbooks into the ‘engine of their creativity’ and understand how an artist’s sketchbook is the go-to place to play and generate new ideas.
Help + Guidance
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: 10-4pm, both days
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
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
thick cartridge paper
spiral bound if possible
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
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.
Level 1: Beginner
For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.
Level 2: Improver
For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students with creative experience who feel 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.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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Course Structure
This course shows you the difference between an artist’s sketchbook, a journal, scrapbook or diary?
Students learn to develop themed ideas that link across multiple pages allowing creativity to flourish and new ideas to germinate. Students will work with mixed media techniques, learn how to deconstruct, and re-make their sketchbook into a personal response.
Personalising a sketchbook
Session 1
Students will explore the differences between keeping an artist’s sketchbook, journals and scrap books. Learn techniques about annotation, background textures, and clever ways of making structural changes to sketchbooks that reflect individual personality.
Developing a sketchbook attitude
Session 2
Observational drawing is key to exciting art and allowing drawings to ‘fail’ without feeling a failure. This attitude is the key to embracing experimentation within a sketchbook and will allow work to develop and progress.
Story telling in sketchbooks
Session 3
Learn techniques to enable imagery and ideas to thread and flow between pages developing visual stories through a sketchbook. Students learn about page composition and mixed-media techniques that encourage quality observational drawings.
Outside influence in a sketchbook
Session 4
Incorporating other artists work into a sketchbook has the power to transform existing ideas in unexpected directions. Students will work on a mini project developing their ideas towards an outcome of their choice – painting, sculpture, craft object, or design.
By the end of the course…
Students will have ideas and skills to transform their sketchbooks into the ‘engine of their creativity’ and understand how an artist’s sketchbook is the go-to place to play and generate new ideas.
Help + Guidance
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: 10-4pm, both days
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
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
thick cartridge paper
spiral bound if possible
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
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.
Level 1: Beginner
For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.
Level 2: Improver
For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students with creative experience who feel 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.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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