Visual arts
City Lit offers the most diverse range of part-time, weekend and evening art courses in London, with many courses taught by successful artists and practitioners. Recently rated ‘outstanding’ in a government inspection, art classes on offer include some of the most popular subjects in London- from jewellery and ceramics to painting, drawing and sculpture to name a few. Whether you are a complete beginner or a practising artist we hope we have something to entice you to choose one of our art classes. Find out more about our art courses, by contacting us:
Please email us for advice or call us on 020 7492 2700/2703 during these times:
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays - 9.00 -12.00 & 15:00-18:00
- Thursdays - 9.00-12.00
- Saturdays - 14.00-17.00
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- Art history practices and debates: short course
- British art
- Change must come: art, politics and society
- Contemporary art showing in London
- East Anglian churches (architecture)
- Frescoes in Italy 1300 - 1400
- Gothic and Medieval architecture
- Iconography and iconology: secrets of the old masters revealed
- Introduction to art history
- Introduction to the Tate in London
- Introduction to the V&A
- Italian Renaissance drawing: design, form and function
- Landscape painting 1650 - 1900
- Leonardo da Vinci: introduction and study day
- London's smaller art collections
- Looking at architecture
- Looking at paintings
- Looking at sculpture
- Masters of the Renaissance: Leonardo and Michelangelo
- Medieval and Renaissance art: an introduction
- Medieval galleries at the V&A and British Museum
- Medieval galleries at the V&A and British Museum 2
- Medieval manuscripts at the British Library
- Michelangelo: introduction and study day
- Modern art: 1850 - 1900
- Modern art: 1900 - 1950
- Modern art: 1950 - present
- Moving out, moving forward: development of public buildings
- National Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery
- Painting and mosaic in the Greek and Roman world
- Russian modernism: art and culture 1900-1930
- Scented visions: perfume in art
- Styles in art
- Sunset of Empire: ancient Egyptian art in an age of decline
- Tanis, Gold of the Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Art
- The 'isms' of 20th century art
- The age of Alexander the Great: art & society
- The age of reason: art and culture in the 18th century
- The art and culture of the Victorians
- The art, sculpture and architecture of the classical world
- The Bloomsbury Group: study day
- The history of Western Art in 100 paintings: part 1
- The history of Western Art in 100 paintings: part 2
- The mirror of nature: art and culture in the 17th century
- The rise of Renaissance masters: origins and conclusions
- The Romantics
- The Turner Prize
- Warrior Pharaoh Ancient Egyptian Art
- A boarded vellum binding
- A taster course in bookbinding
- Book arts: contemporary - medieval
- Book conservation and repair: workshop and practice
- Book conservation for beginners
- Book conservation: intermediate and advanced
- Book conservation: two-term intermediate and advanced
- Book repair and conservation: advanced
- Book repair and conservation: leather-bound books
- Book repair and conservation: paper and cloth-bound books
- Bookbinding for beginners 1: book structures and box-making
- Bookbinding for beginners 2: a leather-bound book
- Bookbinding into book art
- Bookbinding: fine binding - forwarding and covering
- Bookbinding: leather for beginners
- Bookbinding: make your own long flat sketchbook
- Bookbinding: making a unique artist book
- Bookbinding: paring and practice in working with leather
- Bookbinding: triangular bookmaking
- Bookbinding: wooden boarded bindings
- Box, slipcase, portfolio - containers for books and prints
- Experimental books: exploring new paper-covered bookbinding structures
- Intermediate level leather bookbinding
- Intermediate/advanced bookbinding course
- Sequential poetics: working with text through artists books
- The City Lit bookbinding course
- A taster course in pottery
- An introduction to ceramics
- Ceramic artists talking: Jo Veevers
- Ceramic artists talking: Ruth Franklin
- Ceramics diploma course: 1st year
- Ceramics diploma workshop
- Ceramics portfolio course
- Ceramics: 3 day throwing course
- Ceramics: surface printing on clay
- Ceramics: throwing and decoration
- Ceramics: workshop (Ceramics portfolio)
- Ceramics: workshop (Structured ceramics)
- Pottery
- Pottery for beginners
- Pottery intermediate
- Pottery on Saturdays
- Pottery on Saturdays: intermediate
- Pottery: a taster course in throwing
- Pottery: beginner's throwing course
- Pottery: evening course
- Pottery: introduction to throwing and decoration
- Pottery: Saturday throwing course
- Structured ceramics course
- Textiles into ceramics: a surface approach
- A design course
- Creative colour for artists and designers
- Curating furniture for interiors
- Design and model making
- Design drawing for interiors
- Design illustration for interiors
- Developing interior designs
- Interior design 1
- Interior design: soft furnishings
- Introduction to garden design
- Introduction to interior design
- Introduction to model making for interiors
- Introduction to puppetry
- Introduction to SketchUp Pro
- Introduction to Vectorworks
- Introduction to Vectorworks 2D
- Introduction to wallpaper design
- Practical interior decoration
- Sketchbook for interior designers
- Adobe Illustrator: taking it further
- Adobe Illustrator: an introduction
- Advanced digital editing using Final Cut
- Advanced Photoshop
- After Effects for beginners
- Animation using the computer: for beginners
- Art and design and Photoshop
- Basic digital video editing using Final Cut: short course
- Beginner's Photoshop
- Beginners photoshop
- Children's book illustration
- Children's book illustration: inspiration and practice
- Children's book illustration: short course
- Clipping paths an introduction
- Comic book art
- Compression techniques for digital video makers
- Creating and editing sound tracks for digital video
- Creative animation
- Creative narrative cut-out animation
- Design with Illustrator and Photoshop
- Design with InDesign and desktop publishing
- Design with InDesign: short course
- Designing textiles using Photoshop
- Digital art studio: open access 1
- Digital art studio: open access 10
- Digital art studio: open access 2
- Digital art studio: open access 3
- Digital art studio: open access 4
- Digital art studio: open access 5
- Digital art studio: open access 6
- Digital art studio: open access 7
- Digital art studio: open access 8
- Digital art studio: open access 9
- Digital design portfolio preparation
- Digital drawing: including drawing from life
- Digital video editing using Final Cut
- Documentary film making: a practical course
- Experimental film-making
- Fast forward: director's talks - Liz Friend
- Fast forward: directors' talks - Ian Emes
- Final Cut taster
- Get started with a DV camera and editing with iMovie
- Graphic design and illustration
- Graphic design basics
- Intermediate digital editing using Final Cut
- Introduction to After Effects and producing animated titles
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Introduction to professional cartooning
- Introduction to using Apple computers
- Learn to use a digital video camera
- Lighting for digital video
- Narrative film-making: an introduction
- Photoshop Elements: an introduction
- Produce promotional materials with Photoshop
- Stop frame animation: an introduction
- Stop motion workshop
- Taking Photoshop further
- Use Flash to create animated adverts for the internet
- Using Flash for animation: introduction
- Web design for beginners: short course
- Web design using Dreamweaver for artists and craftspeople
- Basic perspective for drawing and visualisation
- Creative sketchbook
- Develop your drawing
- Drawing 1
- Drawing and mixed media
- Drawing connections
- Drawing continued
- Drawing development
- Drawing sounds
- Drawing systems and perspective
- Drawing the line
- Drawing: some basics
- Large scale sketchbook
- Seeing images
- Sketchbook course
- Starting a sketchbook
- Starting to draw
- Taking sketchbooks further
- Try drawing
- Advanced portrait painting
- Composing the figure
- Contemporary portraits
- Drawing portraits
- Introduction to figure painting
- Introduction to life drawing
- Introduction to life painting
- Life class
- Life drawing
- Life drawing for the terrified
- Life drawing on a Sunday
- Life drawing with meditation
- Life painting
- Painting portraits with light and shade
- Portraits 1
- Portraits continued
- Skin deep - the body as a painted landscape
- Starting portraits
- An introduction to fabric printing
- Beginners skills for clothes making
- Clothes making intensive 1
- Clothes making intensive 2
- Clothes making intensive 3
- Colour onto cloth
- Costume design
- Creative stitched textiles
- Crochet for beginners
- Crochet for improvers
- Drawing with stitch
- Experimental hand knitting
- Experimental hand stitch
- Fashioning fabrics: collars, cuffs, corsages and cameos
- Fashioning fabrics: personality pockets and pouches
- Fashioning fabrics: ruffles, flounces, pleats and tucks
- Felt jewellery
- Felt jewellery taster
- Felt-making for beginners
- Felt-making: hand-felted Nuno cloth
- Felt: developing techniques and ideas
- General sewing to survive! - an introduction
- Hand knitting for beginners
- Hand knitting for improvers
- Introduction to sewing
- Introduction to using a commercial sewing pattern
- Manipulated textiles using heat setting techniques
- Mixed media textiles: transform, change, disintegrate
- Starting with creative design - an introduction (textiles)
- Stitched networks - exploring line and space
- Structural crochet: working with 3D forms
- Surface pattern: design and decoration (textiles)
- Textiles: approaches to drawing, sketchbooks and design development
- Textiles: basics for beginners
- Textiles: recycle, reuse, retell
- The clothes making course 1: day
- The clothes making course 1: eve
- The clothes making course 2: day
- The clothes making course 2: eve
- The clothes making course 3: day
- The clothes making course 3: eve
- The fashion course: illustration and presentation
- The fashion course: introducing design principles
- The textile course 1: day - colour and pattern
- The textile course 1: day - mixed media
- The textile course 1: day - structure and surface
- The textile course 1: evenings - colour and pattern
- The textile course 1: evenings - mixed media
- The textile course 1: evenings - structure and surface
- The textile course 2: intermediate and advanced practice
- An introduction to diamonds
- Appraising jewellery and gemstones
- Basic mount-making and stone-setting for jewellery makers
- Bead weaving (off loom) for jewellery makers
- Beaded jewellery: inspirations
- Creative bead jewellery
- Daytime jewellery: all levels
- Design for jewellery makers
- Designing jewellery for men
- Enamelling for beginners
- Enamelling: transparent/silver/opaque
- Ethical jewellery
- Evening jewellery: all levels
- Fabric jewellery
- Fine woven beads and structures for jewellery
- Gold overlay for jewellery makers
- Gypsy setting for jewellery makers
- Introduction to beaded jewellery
- Introduction to fabric jewellery
- Introduction to metal jewellery making
- Introduction to working in metal clay for jewellery makers
- Jewellery from found objects and recycled materials
- Jewellery short course: all levels
- Jewellery workshop 1
- Jewellery workshop 2
- Jewellery workshop 3
- Jewellery-making: a taster
- Jewellery: bead stringing
- Jewellery: make a beaded necklace
- Jewellery: make a silver cuff
- Jewellery: make a silver ring
- Jewellery: make beaded earrings
- Jewellery: precision skills training
- Non-toxic resins and cold enamels for jewellery makers
- Polymer clay for jewellery makers
- Presentation drawing for jewellery makers
- Progressive jewellery
- Saturday jewellery: all levels
- Soldering, finishing and polishing - a master class for jewellery makers
- Start your own jewellery business
- Structured jewellery: City and Guilds 7111
- Structured jewellery: City and Guilds 7112
- Structured jewellery: City and Guilds 7113
- Textile jewellery
- Try jewellery: introduction to the City & Guilds certificate
- Wax carving for jewellery makers
- Wire, bead and thread jewellery
- Advanced painting
- Colour mixing for oil painting
- Contemporary approaches to the figure
- Creative still life
- Develop your painting
- Developing fine art practice
- Drawing into painting
- Exploring watercolour and mixed media
- Introducing urban watercolour
- Introduction to art
- Introduction to painting
- Introduction to watercolour: composition
- Introduction to watercolour: nocturnes
- Introduction to watercolour: still life
- Introduction to watercolour: techniques
- Introduction to watercolour: the environment
- Introduction to watercolour: the figure
- Landscape in oils
- Painting and the creative imagination
- Painting continued
- Painting course 1
- Painting directions
- Painting techniques
- Painting: composing and improvising with colour
- Start oil painting
- Start painting
- 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
- Watercolour themes and ideas
- Watercolour: the radiant image 1
- Watercolour: the radiant image 2
- Watercolour: the radiant image 3
- Ways into abstract painting
- Body casting for sculpture
- Bronze sculpture: modelling and casting the figure
- Carving sculpture in stone
- Carving sculpture in wood
- Carving sculpture in wood or stone
- Carving sculpture in wood or stone: intermediate/advanced
- Casting sculpture in metal
- Developing personal ideas for sculpture
- Experimental portrait sculpture
- Introduction to sculpture
- Metal sculpture
- Modelling sculpture from the figure
- Origami for beginners
- Paper sculpture
- Sculpture: abstracting the figure
- Sculpture: make your own waxwork head
- Sculpture: modelling eyes, nose and mouth
- Sculpture: modelling from life
- Sculpture: origami in metal
- Sculpture: the City Lit carving in stone course
- Sculpture: the unpredictable figure
- Styrofoam sculpture
- The City Lit sculpture course year 1
- The City Lit sculpture course year 2
- The impatient sculptor
- Wood and metal design workshop
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- Visual arts
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- Art history
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- Bookbinding, book arts and conservation
- Calligraphy
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- Digital arts and graphics
- Drawing
- Drawing and painting from life
- Fashion and textiles
- Jewellery
- Mosaics
- Offsite and studio development courses
- Painting
- Printmaking
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- Photography
- Beginners
- Business and copyright
- Computer based photography courses
- Documentary and photojournalism
- Exhibiting your photographs
- History, theory and talks about photography
- Lighting and studio techniques
- Photographing London
- Photography and contemporary art practice
- Portfolio and project creation
- Printing courses
- Taking photography further: general
- Taking photography further: specialist
- Traditional techniques
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- Languages
- Drama, dance and speech
- Accredited courses
- Acting - advanced
- Acting - follow-on
- Acting - introductory
- Acting short courses
- Arts administration
- Comedy
- Communication courses for speakers of other languages
- Communication skills for business
- Dance and movement
- Directing
- Drama teaching
- Drama therapy
- Internet broadcasting
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- Performance skills
- Professional skills for actors
- Professional theatre company
- Stage combat
- Technical theatre
- TV, radio and sound
- Voice, speech and communication
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- Humanities
- Music
- Cello
- Clarinet
- Classical guitar
- Flute
- Instrument playing
- Instrumental ensembles
- Jazz and popular music
- Music access course
- Music appreciation
- Music foundation
- Music technology
- Musicianship
- Piano and keyboards
- Record your performance
- Recorder
- Singing
- String ensembles
- Ukelele
- Violin
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- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
- Anatomy and physiology
- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy and healing
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- Health and fitness teacher training
- Massage and bodywork: introductory level
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- Meditation and stress management
- Movement classes
- Nutrition and food safety
- Professional development for movement instructors
- Self-defence
- Yoga
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- Computing
- Apple Mac
- Basic computing
- Bookkeeping
- Courses leading to a qualification
- Design and illustration
- Desktop publishing
- Digital Inclusion
- Explore your interests using a computer
- Keyboard skills
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- Windows and file management
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- Psychology, counselling & personal development
- English, maths & ESOL
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- Teacher & management training
Featured course
VX126 - Fashioning fabrics: ruffles, flounces, pleats and tucks Sunday; 26/02/12 - 18/03/12; 10:30 - 16:30 Develop fabric manipulation techniques to add volume, structure and drama using ruffles and flounces, pleating, tucks and gathering
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!