“Great intro to urban sketching. Learned loads and lots of practice with composing pictures, measuring, shading and using watercolours. Darren B A fabulous weekend for drawing outdoors on location – spectacular Manchester weather meant we were able to make the most of outdoor sketching in the heart of historical Ancoats surrounded by historical buildings and […]
“Fantastic experience. I learnt more than I would ever expect.” Oscar L We enjoyed wonderful weather this autumn so were able to get out and about around Ancoats and visit 3 different venues over the weekend. We enjoyed a good mix of students with different experiences and interests on this course which was great. I […]
“Brilliant, learned loads. As a complete beginner I was apprehensive, but it was even better than I’d hoped.” Helen E This has been an amazing course to teach and support students to grow and develop as artists. All the students have given so much of thir enthusiasm and dedication on all the exercises and tasks […]
“I feel that my way of being in relation to art has monumentally changed from my experience on this course.” Hazel B It was wonderful to be joined by 7 students on this Self-expression course – the final section of the year-long Art + Creativity course. Some students had completed the whole course in a single […]
“Learnt how to use the different materials and how to approach a new material to help understand its characteristics.” Tim M I loved teaching this hands-on course getting deeply involved with different materials – from dry drawing materials to wet painterly materials like acrylics and inks. I was able to enthuse students in the love […]
“Definitely given me more confidence in tackling buildings.” Natalie C A fabulous weekend, thankfully with some good weather, to get out and about around Ancoats and draw some of the historic and more contemporary architecture. Whether a Victorian brick building that forms the fabric of Manchester’s architecture or contemporary housing – all buildings tell a […]
It has more than met my expectations. {my course highlights were] feeling freed up from ‘shoulds’ and ‘not good enough’.” Hazel B What a fabulously creative and inspiring way to start the New Year and not only that – every Monday morning for 10 weeks with a good dose of art to inspire. It was […]
“A very rich and comprehensive learning. Teaching style is encouraging and paced. At whatever level you are at there is much to learn as much from one another as from Brian” Nicky O I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and supporting my group of students over the 10 weeks of this Material Techniques course. I was […]
“A strong focus on technique so you can then work on that later to improve longer term as well.” Craig M A small group of students braved the wonderful mild early autumn weather and enjoyed a day and half of drawing outdoors around Ancoats. We enjoyed the atmosphere of sketching outdoors on Saturday afternoon, while […]
“The right amount of structure and freedom to move forward making pictures.” Kathryn F The Art + Creativity course was a delight to teach this term. We focused on Drawing skills and it was wonderful that everyone managed to find that bit of extra time at home each week to continue working on the projects […]
“It was an amazing experience. I have learnt so much.” Mara C It was wonderful to be outside drawing again. We always meet such colourful characters when drawing outside, which is one of the features of urban sketching! For those of you not quite confident enough in your sketching skills to put up with the […]
“I now want to draw buildings all the time, when previously I avoided them at all costs!” Heather M What a wonderful weekend sketching our urban environment on my Cityscapes: urban sketching course! The weather was extremely kind to us, so in contrast to the summer course, we drew outside on site, for almost the […]
“Covid-19 safety and Creativity combined!! What more could we ask for? Sue M Urban sketching in August sounds wonderful – sitting outdoors in the summer sunshine drawing our surroundings. Sadly that did not happen much during our summer urban sketching weekend course. The weather was awful! We managed to get outdoors for about 1 hour […]
Drawing machines: new mark-makingTechnology has always been a part of making art from the discovery of graphite for drawing in the 19th century to the computer drawing tablets in the 21st century. This is an art and engineering/sculpture project! Enjoy…
Spaces in betweenWe spend all out time drawing and painting objects. It’s time to shift your focus to the space between and around the things we love to draw.
