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The Art Elements
£218.00
Thursday evening 6-session course
The Art Elements
The Art Elements are what drawings and paintings are made of.
Gain important insights into how to improve the use of Line, Colour, Tone + Form, Texture, Shape and Pattern.
Learn how the Art Elements affect picture-making and how to manipulate them. This is the vital first step to improving as an artist.
The course follows a series of exercises and creative projects to enable students to experience and understand the visual impact of the Art Elements. Using the Art Elements with greater skill supports the underlying drawing to create ever more impactful artwork.
Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
Course Overview
Each of the 6 sessions explores one of the Art Elements, opening the door to some of the essential knowledge students need to know about using the Art Elements effectively. Learning on this course can be applied to all styles of work from realism to abstract and is relevant to all subjects from landscape, portraits, still life and more.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thurs evening x 6 sessions
Times: 6.30 – 9pm
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
Attendance: Every session is complete within itself, so although it is important to attend regularly to avoid gaps in knowledge, students can happily progress through the course even if they have missed sessions.
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
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
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 Quotes
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Course Structure
Line
Session 1
Students will understand line more deeply, increase the variety of line they use, and develop their sensitivity towards this most elusive of the art elements.
Tone + Form
Session 2
This is what makes drawings and paintings pack a punch. Get is wrong and art looks flat and boring. Learn how tone works within colour and monochrome artwork and discover how using Tone and Form correctly will create the illusion of space and convincingly solid 3D objects.
Colour
Session 3
People react to colour first, so getting it right is vital. Students will increase their knowledge of how colour effects what they are creating to develop a confident attitude to using colour.
Texture
Session 4
Texture adds a tactile quality to drawings and paintings which makes people engage in art more easily. Students will learn the importance of rendering visual texture to develop contrast between objects and space.
Shape + Pattern
Session 5
Shape + Pattern holds drawings together, creates structure and simplifies complex objects. Shape has many uses and functions. Students will learn to understand shape in all its forms to enable them to create strong compositions.
Composition
Session 6
The eye is predominantly attracted to shape, tone and pattern. Using it effectively when structuring a drawing or painting is crucial but can be tricky to get right. This session explores the underlying structures found in paintings.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home with added creative confidence having learned about the fundamental building blocks of art making knowing what they need to start doing to improve their art.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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Course Overview
Each of the 6 sessions explores one of the Art Elements, opening the door to some of the essential knowledge students need to know about using the Art Elements effectively. Learning on this course can be applied to all styles of work from realism to abstract and is relevant to all subjects from landscape, portraits, still life and more.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thurs evening x 6 sessions
Times: 6.30 – 9pm
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
Attendance: Every session is complete within itself, so although it is important to attend regularly to avoid gaps in knowledge, students can happily progress through the course even if they have missed sessions.
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
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
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 Quotes
More reviews >
Course Structure
Line
Session 1
Students will understand line more deeply, increase the variety of line they use, and develop their sensitivity towards this most elusive of the art elements.
Tone + Form
Session 2
This is what makes drawings and paintings pack a punch. Get is wrong and art looks flat and boring. Learn how tone works within colour and monochrome artwork and discover how using Tone and Form correctly will create the illusion of space and convincingly solid 3D objects.
Colour
Session 3
People react to colour first, so getting it right is vital. Students will increase their knowledge of how colour effects what they are creating to develop a confident attitude to using colour.
Texture
Session 4
Texture adds a tactile quality to drawings and paintings which makes people engage in art more easily. Students will learn the importance of rendering visual texture to develop contrast between objects and space.
Shape + Pattern
Session 5
Shape + Pattern holds drawings together, creates structure and simplifies complex objects. Shape has many uses and functions. Students will learn to understand shape in all its forms to enable them to create strong compositions.
Composition
Session 6
The eye is predominantly attracted to shape, tone and pattern. Using it effectively when structuring a drawing or painting is crucial but can be tricky to get right. This session explores the underlying structures found in paintings.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home with added creative confidence having learned about the fundamental building blocks of art making knowing what they need to start doing to improve their art.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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