Weekends
2-day Courses over a Saturday and Sunday
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Begin to draw + paint
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The absolute-beginners guide to starting art. Banish your worries or confusion and learn to enjoy your drawing and painting.
Learn how to start drawing and painting with step by step demonstrations, practical exercises, and insightful tips.Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners
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Creative sketchbooks
£140.00Weekend 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
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Realistic drawing L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The perfect place to start improving core drawing and observational skills to draw accurately and realistically from life. Learn new drawing practices that will improve your ability to draw with more realism and detail. Learn measuring techniques to observe proportions, angles and relationships with greater accuracy and a variety of techniques using graphite pencils and colour pencils to render surface detail and material quality of different surfaces such as leather, fabric, glass, and fruit.
The course will give students new levels of drawing confidence with skills that will form the foundation upon which all future drawing and painting will be built on.
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Expressive drawing L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
Take control of the creative process and create drawings that express a unique artistic vision. Students will progress and enhance their existing drawing skills learning to embrace a personally self-expressive vision. Learning new creative techniques and approaches will enable students to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret their chosen subject matter.
Projects use a variety of different drawing materials and techniques to enable students to radically transform the still life arrangements into contemporary-styled self-expressive drawings.
Suitable for: Adults, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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Acrylic painting L1
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
The perfect place to start learning to use acrylics paints.
Students are taught about the properties of acrylic paint and the appropriate equipment to use.
Exercises and projects are based on traditional still life arrangements and help students learn about colour theory, brush control, and a range of other techniques.Suitable for:
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Acrylic painting L2
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
Develop and enhance acrylic painting skills beyond the basics and gain more control over the material qualities and personality of acrylic paint. Students will learn and develop their brush control techniques, use of colour relationships, and learn how differing acrylic paint qualities impact on their paintings.
Teaching on this course is based around 2 projects – a contemporary approach to expressive portraits, and interior scenes.
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Abstract Art
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
Learn the visual language of abstract art and understand how to use the elements of line, form, tone, colour, shape and pattern.
Learn the techniques needed to create personal abstract art images.
A series of exercises and mini projects take students on a creative journey to creating abstract art.Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Cityscapes: urban sketching
£140.00Weekend course 2-days
Buildings form the backdrop to all urban sketching. This course gives students the skills and confidence needed draw creative convincing looking buildings.
Learn the principles of perspective and a variety of creative sketching techniques suitable for outdoor sketching.
Learn the skills to feel confident in drawing buildings as the focal point of your urban sketching scenes.Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Creative life drawing course
£290.00Intensive course 4-days
Creative life drawing course:
This fully taught life drawing course teaches students core drawing techniques to help improve observation skills and drawing accuracy while developing a deeper clarity of vision.Learn techniques to establish the structure and proportions of the human form within 3-dimensional space. Gain insights into why drawers make common perceptive errors and techniques to avoid them. Students will be guided through a series of experiential exercises while drawing directly from a variety of life models capturing movement and dynamism of the human form.
Embrace the humanity of drawing the human figure from life.
The intensive 4-day course runs over 4 consecutive days (Thurs-Sun).Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate, experienced
Barbara Ingley
31 October 2020 @ 12:16 pm
Even though I am unable to participate at the moment, I cannot recommend these courses highly enough! Really friendly, enjoyable and intuitive!
artfulantics
1 November 2020 @ 8:48 am
Hi Barbara.
Hope you are well – good to hear from you again. Thank you for the ‘thumbs up’ about my courses.
Much appreciated. See you soon.
Take care, Brian