Days: Sat + Sun
Times: Sat 10 – 4pm + Sun 10 – 4.30pm
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.
Creative sketchbooks
£145.00
Weekend course 2-days
Creative Sketchbooks: 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 and techniques to further encourage exploration and creativity.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
Course Overview
Artists sketchbooks help artists develop and transform their creative ideas. This course shows you how an artists sketchbook is difference to a journal, scrapbook or diary. Learn techniques to take control of your sketchbook and develop personal themed ideas and concepts that link across multiple pages allowing creativity to flourish and new ideas to germinate.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: Sat 10 – 4pm + Sun 10 – 4.30pm
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
Student Review
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Course Structure
Personalising a sketchbook
Session 1
Students will learn techniques about annotation, background textures, and clever ways of making structural changes to sketchbooks that reflect individual personalities. Students will work with mixed media techniques, learn how to deconstruct, and re-make their sketchbook into a personal response.
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.
Student Quotes
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Course Overview
Artists sketchbooks help artists develop and transform their creative ideas. This course shows you how an artists sketchbook is difference to a journal, scrapbook or diary. Learn techniques to take control of your sketchbook and develop personal themed ideas and concepts that link across multiple pages allowing creativity to flourish and new ideas to germinate.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: Sat 10 – 4pm + Sun 10 – 4.30pm
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
Student Review
More reviews >
Course Structure
Personalising a sketchbook
Session 1
Students will learn techniques about annotation, background textures, and clever ways of making structural changes to sketchbooks that reflect individual personalities. Students will work with mixed media techniques, learn how to deconstruct, and re-make their sketchbook into a personal response.
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.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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