Painting courses
Do you want to learn how to paint? Or are you already a keen painter and want to develop your skills? From introductory courses to working with watercolour and developing concepts and ideas, our painting courses will help you explore different approaches and techniques in painting.
- Abstracting the townscape
- Colour and inner creativity
- Colour mixing for oil painting
- Creative still life
- Creativity from within
- Develop your painting
- Drawing into painting
- Exploring watercolour and mixed media
- From drawing to painting
- Green is the colour; painting is the process
- Introducing urban watercolour
- Introduction to art
- Introduction to painting
- Introduction to watercolour
- Introduction to watercolour techniques
- Introduction to watercolour: still life
- Introduction to watercolour: the environment
- Introduction to watercolour: the figure
- Landscape in oils
- Painting and film
- Painting and the imagination
- Painting continued
- Painting course 1
- Painting directions
- Painting stories
- Painting techniques
- Painting townscapes in watercolour
- Painting with photography
- Painting: composing and improvising with colour
- The City Lit fine art course: year 1 daytime
- The City Lit fine art course: year 1 evening
- The City Lit fine art course: year 2 daytime
- The City Lit fine art course: year 2 evening
- The figure in watercolour
- The sky's the limit
- Watercolour and the imagination
- Watercolour summer school
- Watercolour themes and ideas
- Watercolour: the radiant image 1
- Watercolour: the radiant image 2
- Watercolour: the radiant image 3
- Ways into abstract painting
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Visual arts
Tel: 020 7492 2700
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Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!