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Begin to draw + paint
£140.00Priced per course
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: Adults
Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners -
Abstract Art
£140.00Priced per course
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: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate -
Acrylic painting L1
£140.00Price per course
This course is 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: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers -
Acrylic painting L2
£140.00Price per course
This course will enable students to progress and enhance their existing acrylic painting skills.
Students will learn and develop their brush techniques, use of colour relationships, and how differing acrylic paint qualities impact on their paintings.
Teaching on this course is based around 2 projects – expressive portraits, and a contemporary approach to painting interior scenes.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Improvers, Intermediate, Experienced -
Charcoal + Graphite
£140.00Priced per course
Discover the freedom and physicality of drawing with willow charcoal.
Embrace the emotive power of compressed charcoal. Uncover the joy of gestural mark making with graphite.
Develop the skills for detailed tonal blending when drawing in pencil.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate -
Cityscapes: urban sketching
£140.00Priced per course
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: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate -
Creative drawing L1
£140.00Priced per course
Students will refresh their technical drawing skills and learn to adopt a methodical approach to drawing.
Learn the skills to enhance observation skills before learning techniques to free up creative flow.
Learn a variety of techniques covering a range of different art materials to unleash creative potential.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers -
Creative drawing L2
£140.00Priced per course
Learn how to change your approach to drawing and learn to create powerfully engaging and personally expressive contemporary drawings.
Discover ways to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret your subject matter.
Gain control of the creative process and create drawings that express a unique artistic vision.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Improvers, Intermediate, Experienced -
Creative sketchbooks
£140.00Priced 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 -
Expressive mark-making
£140.00Priced per course
Explore the art of drawing in its purest form.
Students will explore drawing and mark-making that goes beyond realism and representation. Learning to trust their innate imagination, intuition, and sense of play, students will nurture their inner creativity and self-expression to re-energise their art making. Learn how expressive mark-making can be the gateway to transforming your creativity.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate -
Mixed-media: textures
£140.00Priced per course
Learn a wide variety of mixed-media techniques to build up tactile relief textures.
Create imaginative + personal drawings and paintings that embrace texture-making.
Learn to experiment with adding texture into paintings while exploring a variety of themes – landscape, still life and figurative.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate -
Life drawing – The Creative Eye course
£360.00Priced per course
The Creative Eye life drawing course:
This fully taught life drawing course teaches students essential insights into the creative process. Drawing exercises help students achieve life drawings of integrity and clarity of vision. Learn practical techniques to help avoid the difficulties faced by all life-drawers.The course brings to life the unique teachings of Heather Spears from her book The Creative Eye which encourages a contemporary observational and deeply personal approach to life drawing.
The 4-day course runs either over 4 consecutive days (Thurs-Sun), or over 2 weekends (Sat-Sun).
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Experienced
Course options: Thursday-Sunday or 2 x weekends
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