Weekends
2-day Courses and 1-day Workshops
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Begin to draw + paint
£145.00Weekend 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
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Creative Sketchbooks: 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 and techniques to further encourage exploration and creativity.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Realistic drawing L1
£145.00Weekend 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.
There is a strong focus on techniques for rendering with graphite pencils and an option to try colour pencils. Our subject matter takes inspiration from van Gogh and the Dutch masters. We will learn to render surface detail and material quality of different surfaces such as leather, fabric, glass, and fruit.
The course gives students new levels of drawing confidence and skills that will form the foundation upon which all future drawing and painting will be built on.
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Expressive drawing L1
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Learn creative techniques and approaches in how to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret your subject. Explore ways of embracing an expressive semi-abstract style and create highly personal expressions of the still life arrangements. Move away from realism, take control of the creative process, and create drawings that freely express a unique artistic vision.
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
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Acrylic painting L1: The perfect place to start learning to use acrylics paints.
Students are taught about the properties of acrylic paint, brush handling skills, paint application techniques, and the appropriate equipment to use. Tutor support is on hand every step of the way.Exercises and projects are based on traditional still life arrangements and help students learn about colour theory along with a range of painting techniques.
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Acrylic painting L2
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Acrylic painting L2: Further 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
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Learn 10 foundational keys to creating highly personal self-expressive abstract art. Understand the visual language and the creative practices that lie behind abstraction.
With inspiration from the original action painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement and many contemporary artists, students work on a series of exercises and mini-projects. This enables students to travel an exciting creative journey to a deeper understanding of the language of abstract art.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Urban sketching Ancoats
£145.00Weekend course 2-days
Urban Sketching Ancoats: Buildings form the backdrop to all urban sketching. This course gives students the skills and confidence needed to draw convincing looking buildings. Learn measuring techniques to observe proportions, angles, and architectural detail with greater accuracy along with a variety of creative sketching techniques to draw stunning self-expressive urban sketches.
Students will learn classic urban sketching techniques such as graphite and soluble pencils, pen and watercolour wash, and explore key composition techniques to create impactful urban sketches.
The course gives students the confidence to draw buildings as the focal point or backdrop to their urban sketching scenes, and draw outdoors in public spaces with self-confidence.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Experimental drawing
£73.00Saturday workshop 1-day
Experimental drawing: Explore the art of drawing in its purest form. Expand your drawing, gesture and mark-making skills and re-energise your drawing and painting. Gesture and mark-making are the building blocks to transforming ordinary-well observed drawing into dynamic and engaging self-expressive works of art.
Essential skills to both abstract and realistic drawing styles, students will learn by experimentation and tutor-guidance to trust their innate imagination, intuition, and sense of play to nurture their inner creativity and self-expression.
Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Mixed-media textures
£73.00Sunday workshop 1-day
Mixed-media textures: An in-depth guide to creating mixed-media 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: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Charcoal drawing
£73.00Saturday workshop 1-day
Charcoal drawing: Discover the freedom, physicality, and joy of high energy gestural drawing with willow and compressed charcoal. Drawing in monochrome, without the distraction of colour is engaging and liberating.Embrace the emotive power of charcoal while learning different approaches and techniques for developing and controlling tonal values, expressive drawing and blending skills. Projects are based on a variety of themes and topics.Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate -
Dynamic colour mixing
£73.00Sunday workshop 1-day
Dynamic Colour Mixing: A step-by-step guide and exploration of colour mixing. Mix the colours you want when you want so you can create depth, contrast, and focal areas in your artwork. Learn the fundamentals of colour mixing and how to simplify the complexities of using colour relationships correctly.
Learn how to mix stunning colours step-by-step and gain greater colour mixing confidence to apply to drawings and paintings.
This workshop will be a definite step-change – especially if you are still relying on knowledge from school.Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Life Drawing Foundations
£218.00Thursday morning 6-session course
– includes model fees + all materialsLife Drawing Foundations
This fully tutor-led course teaches beginners and more experienced drawers innovative and creative life drawing techniques that will form the foundations to all future life, figure and portrait drawing.Experienced and supportive teaching guides students step-by-step through practical drawing exercises to master core life drawing techniques. Students will be introduced to ideas and concepts around perception and creativity, and learn an approach to drawing the figure that will enable them to draw with a new clarity of vision, improve accuracy, and self-expression.
Every session puts forward solutions to the struggles confronted by everyone who draws – be surprised and persuaded into new understandings of what it means to draw the human figure within dynamic 3-dimensional space.
The course interprets key ideas developed by internationally renowned artist and author Heather Spears in her book ‘The Creative Eye’ .
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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