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- Watercolour painting: mixed media techniquesCourse start date: Tue 9 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterWatercolour has a rich tradition - this course will explore the more experimental ways of using this pleasurable medium and will present new possibilities for producing exciting new work with mixed media. Make inventive combinations of media to draw from your own found imagery, photographs and sketches.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Sewing for the home IICourse start date: Tue 7 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Suk Han LeeLearn how you can refresh soft interiors for your home, starting with designing and making your own Cushion. Update your lounge with a new unique Cushion that conveys your interior style.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Painting: colour mixingCourse start date: Tue 7 May 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
A concise study of colour usage. Investigate colour perception and how colour interacts. Explore a range of observational and expressive painting projects, relate colour theory to practice and develop confidence using colour. An emphasis on colour mixing using acrylics and oil paint.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Drawing: ink and wash techniquesCourse start date: Thu 9 May 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack DuplockThe immediacy and versatility of ink and wash is perfect for those sketching on location, for designers and for students interested in watercolour techniques. Take the opportunity to explore the basic techniques of this exciting process.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Illustrator for textile design IICourse start date: Mon 20 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Expand your knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, creating intricate and decorative elements for textile design. Use a range of drawing and brush tools, refining your skills, developing colour, contrast, and pattern. Ideal for anyone interested in vector based repeat patterns.Full fee £169.00 - Portrait painting: two session poseCourse start date: Sat 23 Mar 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke JonesDevelop a portrait from life: a structured course to build skills towards making a convincing portrait where the model keeps the same pose over 2 sessions to enable a sustained piece of work.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Calligraphy: modern copperplate variationsCourse start date: Wed 12 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksLearn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand, which is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones.This fun class is an introduction to Spencerian script and its connection to basic strokes and letterforms. You will also learn the history of Spencerian script and it will give you some new knowledge of penmanship. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Adobe InDesign: stage 2Course start date: Thu 13 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gita HahnDevelop intermediate desktop publishing skills using InDesign on Apple Macs. Construct and lay out a multi column, multi page document. Work with text to create, apply and import styles, set up and apply master pages and learn good working practices.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Adobe Photoshop: stage 2Course start date: Thu 13 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingLearn a new specialist topic each week and develop it in detail. Increase your knowledge and experiment with the program's applications and special effects. Prior experience of Adobe Photoshop needed.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Adobe Illustrator: stage 2Course start date: Tue 18 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gita HahnLearn advanced features of Adobe Illustrator and how to use the application more intuitively, accurately and creatively.This course is an ideal follow-on to 'Adobe Illustrator:stage 1' for those who have an interest in design and Illustration. - Knotting and stringing for beads and pearlsCourse start date: Tue 16 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Beverley SellBy exploring a range of beaded jewellery techniques you will learn how to string precious beads and how to knot between beads and pearls. You will also learn how to attach simple clasps and findings to bracelets, necklaces and earrings.Full fee £189.00 - Colour mixing studio: two-day painting projectCourse start date: Thu 18 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stuart JonesThis is a brief introduction to acrylic painting techniques and the use of mediums and materials. Explore a practical approach to painting, including layering, impasto, glazing and application of paint mediums. Ideal for those new to painting in acrylics.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Calligraphy: Spencerian scriptsCourse start date: Mon 22 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksLearn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand. Spencerian script developed from the English Cursive and stands out for its delicately shaded lowercase and prominent capitals. With very intense shadows, obtained with a pointed pen, it is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Old master drawing techniques: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Mon 22 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon EnglishLook back at the drawing techniques and materials used by the Old Masters of the Renaissance period. Working to set exercises, practise and develop drawing skills and explore drawing materials used by some of the artists of this time.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Contemporary collage: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Mon 29 Jul 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon EnglishA short experimental course to explore and combine a variety of collage techniques using found images, drawing, painting and paper to create unexpectedly beautiful or powerful images. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00
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