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- Painting 1Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Begona Morea RoyPainting 1 offers an introduction to the basic principles and skills associated with painting. Focus on differing approaches to observational and imaginative work, whilst learning how to organise a palette, mix colours and create different textures.Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00 - Ways into abstract paintingCourse start date: Fri 12 Apr 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca AllenEncounter different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a variety of painting materials. With reference to the work of a variety of abstract artists explore the visual language common to both representation and abstraction, eg. colour, composition, tone and paint application.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Developing watercolour paintingCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterExplore the specific qualities of watercolour and the opportunities this adaptable medium offers to create dynamic painting compositions. Develop a fluency with brush work and layering of colour to develop compositional possibilities.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Collage and mixed media: experimental approachesCourse start date: Tue 4 Jun 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth BrisonCollage is an exciting, accessible and creative medium. Experiment with a rich variety of materials and found images to make vibrant work experimenting with surface, form, colour and pattern, inspired by artists who make effective use of this way of working.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Textiles: experimental hand stitchCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amarjeet NandhraA contemporary approach to hand stitching and embroidery exploring a variety of traditional stitches and techniques.
Create experimental and expressive samples using traditional and non-traditional materials.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Digital video editingCourse start date: Tue 11 Jun 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczInterested in editing your own videos? You may have heard of Premiere Pro or Final Cut. DaVinci Resolve is free and arguably better then both. Come and learn how to use it. Hollywood already does.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Drawing 2Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024 (and 10 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyBuild your confidence in tackling more personal, complex drawings. Further explore observational drawing and visual language. Develop your drawing skills by working with different approaches and exploring a range of artists' drawing process.Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00 - Introduction to watercolour paintingCourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024 (and 11 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterGain a grounding in the rich possibilities available when working with watercolour paint. Through a series of practical studies, you will investigate the potential of this versatile medium.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - City Lit animationCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie Griffiths, John Horabin, Litza JanszPassionate about animation? Fancy spending a year building skills in traditional and digital animation techniques and producing your own animation project? Taught by professional animators, this exciting fast-track practical course gives you the opportunity to explore both commercial and experimental approaches to animation using professional equipment and software. Whether you’re a complete beginner or have some animation experience you can join our award winning alumni. A fantastic start to a new career or simply a chance to pursue your passion with like-minded people. Want to find out if this is the right course for you? Come along to our free School of Visual Arts open day on 18th May and get expert individual advice and guidance. Search VQ009 on our website to book your free place.Full fee £2,399.00 Senior fee £1,919.00 Concession £1,559.00 - Textiles: starting out in printCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn how to create textiles on this practical introductory course to textile print processes. Explore
block, transfer, silkscreen and monoprinting. Suitable for all levels.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - City Lit expanded experimental filmCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Monika KitaCity Lit Expanded Experimental Film is an immersive year-long course designed to facilitate
and advance all stages of experimental project making.
Whether you have previously attended film or art related courses or simply have an interest in exploring a variety of experimental methods, this course will transform your creative approach.
With an emphasis on interdisciplinary fields including animation, performance, installation and sound, the course will examine multiple applications within expanded experimental film practice.
Through discussions, workshops, and personal projects, and by utilising analogue and digital techniques, participants will gain the knowledge and practical skills necessary to create innovative and challenging artworks.Full fee £2,399.00 Senior fee £1,919.00 Concession £1,559.00 - Advanced children's book illustration: professional practiceCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tim Ellis, Zehra Hicks, Dee ShulmanInterested in a career in Children’s Book Illustration, or advancing your practice to the next level? With the guidance and support of your tutors, you will have the opportunity to engage with experienced industry professionals, and develop your practice and personal visual vocabulary to a professional standard.
Confirmed visitors/speakers include:
- Rachel Petty, author/illustrator agent at the Blair Partnership, former editorial director Macmillan Children's Books,
- Margaret Hope, art director, Welbeck Publishing Group
- Arabella Stein, Managing Director, Bright Agency.Full fee £2,699.00 Senior fee £2,159.00 Concession £1,889.00 - City Lit fine art: year 2Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath Castillo, Amanda Knight, Steven ScottYear 2 of CLFA (VM552) will enable you to consolidate and focus the various creative experiences and ideas you will have gained in Year 1, or from equivalent external courses.
This course enables you to identify, develop, produce, and exhibit a personal creative project.
You will adopt simple research methods to help you develop and produce a body of new creative work that takes an individual, self-motivated direction. The necessary self-motivated approach to your work will result in the development of a cohesive set of new artwork that should reflect your own interests. There will be group critiques, one-to-one tutorials and weekly studio production sessions that will challenge and enable you to explore and refine your creative intentions, plus seminars and presentations in which you will learn and engage with new contextual information. These are delivered by experienced, practising artist / tutors.
You should; be prepared to spend some of your own time developing your creative work, and enhancing your creative thinking by visiting exhibitions, reading, researching and planning your project.
Basic materials are included but you will need to supplement these depending on the nature of your creative work.
The course culminates in a group exhibition in the college gallery. This will be organised and marketed collaboratively by the student cohort with engagement and support from CLFA Tutors and City Lit technical staff.Full fee £2,249.00 Senior fee £1,799.00 Concession £1,574.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting IIICourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyThis is a chance to work on your own project of your own choice creating a pattern of a garment you have designed or,a style you have always wanted to recreate from your favored garment.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Jewellery: wax carving and electroformingCourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katrin SprangerExplore wax carving and discover the potential of electroforming. In the process you will transform models from carved wax, Polymorph and organic found objects, such as twigs, leaves and seashells and coat these in copper. Bring a selection of materials/small objects that you may want to electroform and learn how to prepare them, handle the electroforming tank and chemicals and integrate attachments to create lightweight and hollow jewellery pieces.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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