Art & Design Courses - Online & in London
Explore new and exciting subjects within a range of art and design disciplines, develop your skill set, get the support required to change career or launch yourself as a freelance artist or designer. All this and more delivered through our practical and engaging art and design courses at City Lit.
Our range of part-time, weekend and evening art and design classes are taught by successful artists and practitioners to ensure you get the skills, knowledge and experience you want and deserve. From experimental painting and drawing to contemporary jewellery making, there is sure to be a course for you. Study from 1 day to 2 years, whether you are a complete beginner or a practising artist preparing for an MA. Our courses are designed with you in mind, so you get to spend more time doing what you love.
Set a new goal, start your next creative adventure with City Lit and let us support you to realise your ambitions.
Courses available both in-person and online
We offer a range of courses allowing you to choose between online and in-person learning. All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, you’ll receive the same great City Lit experience. See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.
We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work.
Any questions? Contact our visual arts team on visual.arts@citylit.ac.uk or call us on 020 7492 2700, Monday to Friday between 10am-12pm or 2pm-4pm.
- Photography for beginnersCourse start date: Sat 29 Oct 2022 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Photography Studio
Tutors: Ed GregoryAlways 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 £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00 - Screenprinting in a dayCourse start date: Sat 17 Sep 2022 (and 4 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 - Developing personal printmaking projects
Course start date: Thu 14 Jul 2022 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue Baker KentonCourse project: Explore new ways to create layered contemporary prints with collage, screenprint and photo-litho. Advanced Project: Alternatively, students might choose to work towards the completion of a personal project using different processes.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Textiles: experimental hand stitchCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022
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 £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Introduction to AutoCAD 2DCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Piera Dencker-Rasmussen de MascoliAutoCAD is an essential part of the work process for engineers, designers, architects and visualisers. This course will teach you to create 2D technical drawings on Mac in one of the leading CAD design programmes.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Hand knitting for beginnersCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire MontgomerieThis intensive course will inspire a passion for hand knitting, colour and texture.The perfect way to get started.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Saturday portraiture studioCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke JonesAn opportunity to paint and draw from the live model under the guidance of an experienced tutor in portraiture. Helpful technical aspects will be explored and as the course progresses also ideas in portraiture, for example, how we convey atmosphere and tell a story in a portrait.Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00 - Calligraphy: start letteringCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sharon ShawPersonalised hand lettered designs can be used on greetings cards or just as a way to relax. In this beginners course you will learn the basic lettering strokes and then progress to creating styles of your own. You don’t have to worry about purchasing fancy expensive tools; all you will need are regular pens and paper that you probably have at home.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Photography studio assistant courseCourse start date: Sat 1 Oct 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Photography Studio
This is a course for students looking to take their first steps into commercial photography. This is a practical workshop-based course that will enable you to work with photographic studio equipment and software appropriate to a commercial photography workflow.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - City Lit photography projectsCourse start date: Wed 5 Oct 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Photography Studio
Tutors: Laura VuomaDelve deep into the world of photography, working with a selection of fundamental projects that will support you in developing the confidence and skills required for your own photographic practice.
The City Lit photography projects course offers both knowledge and practical experience within photography, exploring its various contexts and genres. You will get to grips with your camera, explore different photographic techniques and gain new skills using industry equipment and software. Working through a series of creative projects you will start developing your own ideas and finish the course with an extensive portfolio of photographic work.Full fee £1,499.00 Senior fee £1,199.00 Concession £974.00 - Developing art practiceCourse start date: Sat 8 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This advanced course for developing and practicing artists consists of work-based seminars facilitated by peers and artist-tutors, giving you the opportunity to develop and present your work for critical discourse. The course includes individual tutorials and mentoring, critical investigation via group crits, visits to galleries and artist-run organisations, collaborative work and discussion and debate. This course will be delivered onsite.Full fee £1,099.00 Senior fee £879.00 Concession £769.00 - Create a short film on your smartphoneCourse start date: Sat 8 Oct 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David KlineThe film making potential of smart phones and tablets have developed greatly over the last few years. Enjoy learning techniques for using them effectively to create short professional looking films for publishing online or for film festival submissions.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Watercolour painting projectsCourse start date: Sat 29 Oct 2022 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul DixonAn introduction to a range of watercolour techniques such as layering, masking out and creating textures, to gain basic skills and an insight into the possibilities of this exciting medium. You will be guided through a series of short creative projects including working from still life observation.Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00 - Vectorworks for beginnersCourse start date: Sat 15 Oct 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicholas WilliamsonLearn how to visualise your 2D and 3D design ideas using the professional application Vectorworks. Vectorworks is very user-friendly, industry standard software that is ideal for architectural planning, interior design projects, 3D modelling and landscaping.Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00 - Large-scale mixed media projectsCourse start date: Sat 15 Oct 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenAn exciting 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 on a large scale. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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