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- Photography for beginnersCourse start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 18 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Sara Leigh LewisAlways wondered what half the buttons on your camera actually do? Discover how to use them properly and produce impressive photographs, even as a complete beginner. Gain useful technical knowledge and get expert creative guidance in easy-to-understand language. An ideal first step before enrolling on our intermediate courses.Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00 - Developing photography skillsCourse start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025 (and 13 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Rachel WeghAlready know the basics of photography but want to take things further? Refresh your knowledge, learn more advanced skills and develop your creative ideas, with an established professional photographer on hand for technical guidance and creative inspiration.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Advance your life drawingCourse start date: Wed 29 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyA weekly, concentrated life-drawing session for learners studying on any of City Lit's advanced visual arts courses.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £314.00 - Developing watercolour paintingCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025 (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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Drawing into watercolour paintingCourse start date: Wed 22 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul DixonExplore the relationship between the two disciplines of drawing and watercolour painting and the opportunities when their distinct qualities are combined.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Creative image editing with Photoshop and LightroomCourse start date: Wed 17 Apr 2024 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Michael HardingLearn how to use and apply the key features of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to develop your image editing skills.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Botanical illustration workshopCourse start date: Fri 7 Jun 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lucia VintiTake a deep dive into a specific process, media or tool, with our Visual Communication workshops.
Workshops throw the spotlight onto niche areas of the visual communication field, enabling you to hone higher-level skills and gain deeper insights.
Workshops tend to have a practical focus, with little or no conceptual or contextual elements, although this varies by course.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Drawing 3Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Explore a range of materials and challenging approaches to develop your creative potential in drawing, informed by artists contexts. Building on your previous experience, develop your observational drawing skills for greater accuracy and complexity as well as learning to manipulate composition, surface and mark-making to create dynamic, expressive drawings.Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00 - Introduction to printmaking techniquesCourse start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 4 other dates)
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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Printmaking studio: focus on creative layeringCourse start date: Wed 18 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterThis course is a chance to develop personal artwork, using traditional printmaking methods with a contemporary approach. Experiment and embrace the possibilities within combined layers and surface textures. Processes covered include monotype, screen-printing and etching/intaglio. All levels of experience welcome.Full fee £659.00 Senior fee £527.00 Concession £428.00 - Developing illustrationCourse start date: Mon 27 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam GraffOur ‘Developing' courses help you take your next step in a chosen creative field.
This course will help progress your illustration practice by further exploring the practical skills (using a variety of analogue and digital media) and conceptual skills (researching and developing your ideas) integral to the discipline. You will also begin to consider which of the many ‘applications’ of illustration your developing personal style might lend itself to; for example, editorial, fashion, book, or product illustration, to name a few.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on courage to playCourse start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas GosebruchExplore and develop personal work using traditional printmaking methods with a contemporary approach. All levels of experience welcome. Beginners will follow a step-by-step introduction to a range of processes; those with experience can develop personal projects with expert guidance.Full fee £799.00 Senior fee £639.00 Concession £519.00 - Contemporary sketchbook: mixed media projectsCourse start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth BrisonDevelop a creative and experimental sketchbook. Explore materials and techniques with confidence, including mark making, drawing and mixed media within a contemporary context. Produce a collection of work or ideas for composition. Drawing experience is an advantage but not essential.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gareth BerwynLearn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - City Lit fine art studioCourse start date: Sat 18 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
An opportunity for students on years 1 and 2 of the City Lit fine art course for increased access to studio time, for further development of their work in progress, and to work alongside students from all 3 years of the course, on alternate Saturdays throughout the term.Full fee £539.00 Senior fee £431.00 Concession £377.00
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