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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 -
Begin using mixed-media textures
£140.00Priced per course
The absolute-beginners guide to creating mixed-media visual and tactile textures using a wide variety of mixed-media materials and techniques.
Gain the confidence to combine a wide range of traditional and unusual materials with acrylic paint to create tactile relief surfaces.Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, Beginners -
Begin with colour
£140.00Priced per course
The absolute-beginner guide to learning how to mix vibrant colours and how colours work together in relationships. Combined with an introduction to using watercolour paints, this course helps simplify the complexities of using colour.
Learn how to mix stunning colours step-by-step and leave with greater colour-confidence to apply to drawings and paintings.
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, 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
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
Develop and enhance 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 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
Drawing in monochrome, without the distraction of colour is engaging and liberating.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. Projects are based on a variety of themes and topics.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 -
Observational drawing L1
£140.00Priced per course
The perfect place to start improving core technical drawing and observational skills. Learn how to adopt new drawing practices that will enhance observational skills, improve rendering skills, and develop flow and individual creativity. Students will learn skills to improve their drawing accuracy, perfect their measuring skills, and draw to scale with ease.
Using a variety of materials and techniques during the course, students will find new levels of drawing confidence to help unleash their creative potential.
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Returners -
Creative drawing L2
£140.00Priced per course
Learn to gain control of the creative process and create drawings that express a unique artistic vision. Students will progress and enhance their existing drawing and creative skills, discovering ways to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret 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 expressive drawings.
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.
Sketchbooks can be the powerhouse of creativity and 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: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediat -
Expressive mark-making
Priced 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 -
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 directly from a variety of life models in the studio, students will learn to create life drawings with integrity and clarity of vision. Drawing exercises will teach practical techniques to help students capture the dynamics, unity and energy of the human form, while helping them avoid common errors of vision 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