and engaging art and design courses at City Lit. Our range of part-time, weekend and evening art and design classes are taught by successful artists and practitioners to ensure you get the skills, knowledge and experience you want and deserve. From experimental painting and drawing to contemporary jewellery making, there is sure to be a course for you. Study from 1 day to 2 years, whether you are a complete beginner or a practising artist preparing for an MA. Our courses are designed with you in mind, so you get to spend more time doing what you love. Set a new goal, start your next creative adventure with City Lit and let us support you to realise your ambitions. We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work. Any questions? Contact our visual arts team on visual.arts@citylit.ac.ukRead less
Filters(2)
324 courses available
Try it out calligraphy: modern copperplateThis short workshop will guide you through the basics of Modern Copperplate Calligraphy, as influenced by historical copperplate handwriting. Once the artform of expert craftsman, calligraphy is now a popular artistic outlet, flexible enough to reflect the personality, style, and creativity of every individual – everyone can learn it and have a lot of fun while doing so! Suitable for left-handers and right-handers.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00- Try it out: jewellery makingIdeal for beginners who want to give jewellery making a go. Come and join this short taster course introducing you to basic jewellery processes and techniques to enable you to make a simple piece of jewellery.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
- Introduction to jewellery makingLearn and develop a range of essential jewellery making techniques and processes for creating metal jewellery. This course is designed for beginners who would like to gain fundamental skills like sawing, filing, sanding, drilling, texturing, forging and soldering. Explore these techniques in set projects and use them to design and make your own pieces.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00
- Life drawing after workA fun, relaxed and shorter life drawing class better suited for people coming straight from work. You will be able to work from a variety of life models, in a range of materials and with a variety of poses. You will be working from the unclothed model, both male and female.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00
- Try it out calligraphy: brush letteringThis short course will introduce you to the tools, materials and techniques that you will need to start lettering by hand. You will focus on creating basic letterforms using a brush pen and leave having completed your own sample. Suitable for beginners or those wishing to learn a new calligraphy skill.
Keeley Street
Thu 10 Sep 2026Ivo GrantinsFull fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Anatomical life drawing
Discover the extraordinary construction of the human body. Through direct observation of the model you will examine the fundamental anatomical structures that underlie life drawing. For those with some drawing experience.
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Try it out calligraphy: formal and modernWould you like to find out about the difference between formal calligraphy and modern calligraphy? Come along to this session and have a go at writing both styles. Beginners and improvers welcome.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
- Try it out: jewellery making weekend
The course is designed for those who have no previous experience of working with metal, or the tools and skills necessary for making Jewellery.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00 - Five Easy Steps to Better Portraits - City Lit Silver Sunday
Our photography tutor Michael Harding will take you through five simple steps to improve your portrait photography using techniques and typical household materials. Suits both DSLR and smartphone camera users. This course is in the City Lit building and presents no mobility issues.
Keeley Street
Sun 13 Sep 2026Michael HardingFull fee £0.00 - A Guided Photo Walk - City Lit Silver Sunday
Take a guided walk with one of our experienced tutors in photography in the local area around the college and get some hints and tips on how to take better photographs of buildings and people using DSLR and or your smartphone camera. The terrain will be flat and the pace relaxed, but you should be able to walk for around 1 hour
Keeley Street
Sun 13 Sep 2026Michael HardingFull fee £0.00 - Five Easy Steps to Taking Better Photographs - City Lit Silver Sunday
Our photography tutor Michael Harding will take you through five simple steps to improve your photography. Suits both DSLR and smartphone camera users. This course is in the City Lit building and presents no mobility issues.
Keeley Street
Sun 13 Sep 2026Michael HardingFull fee £0.00 - Cyanotype printmaking in a day
On this one-day course you will explore the photographic process of cyanotype printmaking onto paper. This print process produces beautiful deep-blue prints and can be created using drawings, photographs and botanicals as well as a variety of physical objects and open-weave materials.
Keeley Street
Mon 14 Sep 2026 (and 7 other dates)Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Metal sculpture: beginners to intermediate
Learn the techniques required in making sculptural or functional objects in steel: cutting, bending, welding and joining small scale metal. Please bring ideas, inspiration and scrap metal. This course is for beginners and those at intermediate level.
Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Clay sculpture: life and portrait
Follow in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Rodin to learn how to capture the human figure, both physically and emotionally, on this fascinating practical sculpting course. You will work from a life model to develop your own clay sculpture of the human form.
Full fee £619.00 Senior fee £495.00 Concession £402.00 - Drawing from plants and flowersExplore the delicacy and beauty of plants and flowers through the medium of drawing. Respond to their structural qualities and colours, using a range of media and taking inspiration from a rich and varied history of the subject. Suitable for all levels of experience.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
Can't see a course you want?
Add this category to your waiting list to set up alerts and we will update you when new courses are released online.