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- City Lit textiles: mixed mediaCourse start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Investigate mixed-media textiles through this project-based course which introduces a variety of materials, techniques and design processes. You will develop a creative portfolio of textile samples using sketchbook research and finally work towards a finished piece.Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £439.00 Concession £357.00 - SketchUp Pro for beginnersCourse start date: Fri 12 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicholas WilliamsonLearn to visualise and model interior spaces and 3D forms with this easy-to-use and intuitive program. It is a perfect addition and complement to our interior and/or garden design courses. The software is very affordable and available for home use on a PC or Mac.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Calligraphy and illuminationCourse start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emiko HashiguchiLearn how to write beautifully with a dip pen and design and produce a piece of work with illuminated letters using colour and gold leaf. All levels.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Bookbinding: learn to bind artists' booksCourse start date: Tue 24 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettExplore the world of artists’ books and learn to make your own books that bring your creative interests to life. Whether you are a beginner or returner, this course will help you to find ways of combining book structures with visual and textual material to create your own artist's book. - Sketchbooks: creating visual journeysCourse start date: Thu 26 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyCreate a 'visual journey' of discovery through an experimental sketchbook. Explore materials and techniques with confidence, including mark making, drawing and mixed media to produce a collection of work or personal ideas for further development. Suitable for all.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - 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 animationCourse start date: Tue 3 Oct 2023 (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 20th May and get expert individual advice and guidance. Search VQ009 on our website to book your free place.Full fee £2,269.00 Senior fee £1,815.00 Concession £1,475.00 - City Lit expanded experimental filmCourse start date: Tue 19 Sep 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Monika KitaCurious about contemporary approaches to filmmaking?
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 practice.
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 a wide range of techniques, participants will gain the knowledge and practical skills necessary to create innovative and challenging artworks.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,416.00 - Printmaking studio: focus on colourCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloA course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate and hone technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high quality prints.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - 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: Thu 25 Apr 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 £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Introduction to painting still-lifeCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn the essentials of Still Life painting from paint handling and colour theory to composition.
Dedicate some time to developing your painting in a series of controlled steps. Learn to select and prepare surfaces and materials, build a composition around still life objects and make supplementary studies to guide your colour application. For absolute beginners.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Sketchbooks: materials and techniquesCourse start date: Thu 7 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joe RichardsonA fantastic introduction to creative processes using a variety of different media to develop an exciting sketchbook. A sketchbook is a great place to try things out, make mistakes and take risks - all in the nature of experimentation. Suitable for beginners as well as those with some previous drawing experience.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Advanced visual communications: where is the truth?Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew McCartenThis advanced course examines the representation of truth and the manipulation of meaning through text and image, an issue with critical importance for the current times, from a number of perspectives. Working across a range of media and techniques employed in creative design and visual communications, we will examine examples in print, broadcast and on-line media.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £244.00 - Introduction to still-life in pastelsCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterExplore a variety of techniques and approaches to making a still-life in pastels. Learn how to mix pastels on paper, choose suitable materials and supports to allow you to create a finished pastel drawing.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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