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 1: Absolute-beginner
For those students who have never done any art or are returning to art after a very long break.
Teaching focuses on core skills with tutor-led exercises on use of materials and techniques
Level 2: Beginner + 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 gain a foundation in 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 artistic confidence and are seeking to develop their skills further to create more complex work.
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.
Creative sketchbooks
£140.00
Priced per course
Sketchbooks play a key part in developing and transforming creative ideas and techniques.
Learn how sketchbooks help artists collect ideas, experiment with techniques, and develop a creative vision.
Discover exciting creative possibilities not previously considered.
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediat
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.
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Refreshments
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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 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 1: Absolute-beginner
For those students who have never done any art or are returning to art after a very long break.
Teaching focuses on core skills with tutor-led exercises on use of materials and techniques
Level 2: Beginner + 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 gain a foundation in 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 artistic confidence and are seeking to develop their skills further to create more complex work.
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).
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