- Bookbinding: simple leather bindingCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterDiscover how leather, combined with simple sewing and cutting techniques can create a wonderfully flexible and stylish bindings. Create books with folded and crossed structure covers, and include some decorative elements to personalise your work.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00 - Portraits 1Course start date: Fri 26 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke Jones, Andrea VoiseyThis course aims to introduce you to this fascinating genre in both drawing and painting portraits through practical experience of the basic skills and concepts involved, including structure and proportion of the head and features, tone, colour, pose and expression.Full fee £439.00 Senior fee £351.00 Concession £285.00 - Large-scale sketchbookCourse start date: Fri 26 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony HullExplore the sequential and adaptive nature of large format sketchbook drawing as a site for generating personal material, inviting connections, and extracting patterns of meaning. Includes artist research, set-project as stimulus, and practical exploration of contemporary drawing techniques.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Children's book illustration: portfolio preparationCourse start date: Fri 26 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Dee ShulmanThis course is for experienced Children’s Book Illustration learners who wish to put together a portfolio of their illustration work for applications to City Lit Advanced courses, higher education, or agents and publishers. Some learners may also wish to create a ‘dummy’ picture book, for the same purposes.Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - 50 drawings in a dayCourse start date: Sat 27 Apr 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mario Lautier VellaA high energy programme of directed and self-directed drawing projects, with rapid shifts in materials, scale, subject and focus. Strictly no discards - come ready to play, risk, invent and discuss. For those with some drawing experience.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Mosaics introductory: direct methodCourse start date: Sat 27 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa BensonDevelop creative expression and confidence in this classic art form. Explore manufactured/recycled materials and surface qualities by applying them directly onto a base. Please bring ideas/sketchbooks. Basic materials provided. All levels welcome.Full fee £459.00 Senior fee £367.00 Concession £298.00 - Beginners' jewellery IIICourse start date: Sun 28 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettBeginners 3 is the perfect continuation for those who have some metal jewellery making experience and would like to expand on their basic metal working skills by learning wax carving and casting. Wax carving lends itself very well to creating organic and fluid forms that can’t be made with sheet and wire. There will be set projects as well as the opportunity to experiment and develop your own designs.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
- Screenprinting in a dayCourse start date: Sun 28 Apr 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HogarthIn this fun, 1-day workshop you will be taught how to print and register a two colour screenprint using monoprint, colour blends and pre-made photographic screens. You will be taught some basic screen making process and insight into making digital artwork. This will set you up for longer and more advanced screenprinting classes.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Introduction to printmakingCourse start date: Tue 30 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon BurderThis fast-paced course reveals some of the processes used to make fine art prints. You will try both relief and intaglio printmaking methods. This course is for beginners and those with limited experience who want to discover how printmaking techniques actually work. An ideal way to start printmaking.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Drawing and mindfulnessCourse start date: Tue 30 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyExplore how mindfulness can enrich drawing and lead to new ways of relating to it. A practical drawing course from observation, and the imagination. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or a way for you to further integrate mindfulness into your drawing.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - City Lit Pro: Adobe InDesign intensiveCourse start date: Tue 30 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea MarzanoCity Lit Pro courses provide accelerated learning for busy people who need specific skills for the workplace. On this intensive and fast-paced course you'll learn the fundamental skills you need to create single and multi-page layouts used for posters, leaflets and brochures. - Japanese woodcut printmakingCourse start date: Wed 1 May 2024 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carol Justin WilhideAn introduction to the beautiful and delicate printmaking world of Japanese Woodcut. Explore this water based, non-toxic process and build an appreciation for the handmade. You will learn how to design, carve and make a multi-coloured print. Beginners welcome.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Storyboarding and animatics for animators and filmmakersCourse start date: Wed 1 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie GriffithsStoryboards and animatics are crucial for planning, developing and communicating your film and animation projects to clients, funders or collaborators. Learn how to represent your project in still and moving image format showing different camera shots, framing, camera movement, action, timing and sound.
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