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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.

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

Courses available both in-person and online

We offer a range of long and short courses allowing you to choose between in-person and online learning.

Learn in the centre of London with our in-person courses. Our purpose-built facilities in Covent Garden mean we are ideally located and easy to get to. 

See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.

All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, we've got the class for you.

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Join us for the City Lit Visual Arts open day on Saturday 18 May. Throughout the day, at our campus in Covent Garden, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the full range and variety of our art and design subjects on offer.  Find out more >

 

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  1. Introduction to AutoCAD 2D
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 16 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Nicholas Williamson
    AutoCAD 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 a Mac in one of the leading CAD design programmes.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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  2. Introduction to quilting
    A close up of a quilted panel constructed with different printed fabrics sewn together then quilted with brown, navy, red and yellow fabrics. then there is some top stitching of shapes.
    Course start date:  Mon 8 Jul 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Beverley Sell
    Learn how to design and make a contemporary quilt using a range of construction and embellishment techniques. Work with simple shapes from recycled fabrics or bring your own fat quarters to create a personalised quilt. Suitable for beginners.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  3. Documentary filmmaking: interviews
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lily Markiewicz
    Good interviews provide the foundation to most successful documentaries. This class offers essential tips on how to approach your subject, how to shoot great interviews and secret tips to improve your chance of better coverage..
    Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00
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  4. Textiles and surface pattern: drawing and design
    A collage of papers featuring different markmaking
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 14 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Janie Murphy
    Investigate mark making, layering and juxtaposing ideas through experimental drawings. Explore the importance of imaginative research and how to record it in a sketchbook. Develop versatile design textile ideas for interiors, fashion, stationery or text.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  5. Watercolour painting: summer school intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hilary Rosen
    Condense your learning on this intensive course. Working from still life explore a variety of application techniques such as layering, masking-out and creating textures to gain a grounding in the rich possibilities of the watercolour medium.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  6. Textiles: indigo shibori dyeing
    A flat lay of indigo fabric that has been dyed with the shibori process.
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lara Mantell
    Produce your own indigo hand dyed fabrics using pleating, stitch and wrapping methods. Explore the magical combination of indigo dye and shibori resist techniques.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  7. Woodblock printmaking: large-scale techniques
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gareth Berwyn
    Large scale printmaking enables expressive mark making. Use woodcut and linocut carving techniques to produce big, bold and multi-coloured, multi-layered prints for you to take home.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  8. Printmaking techniques: summer school intensive
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Claire Hynds
    This 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  9. City Lit Pro: Adobe After Effects fast track
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Horabin
    City Lit Pro courses are tailored for accelerated learning for busy people who need to learn key skills for the workplace. On this Adobe After Effects course, you will learn the essential tools and skills for using After Effects to transform your video projects. These include planning the project, organising and preparing the material, masking skills, key framing skills and working with layers.
    Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00
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  10. Introduction to clothes making
    The tutor Silvia is with a group of students modelling the short sleeved round neck tops they have made in the Introduction to clothesmaking class
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Jul 2024 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Silvia Sacrestano
    Learn how to make your own clothes. This beginner's course will teach you how to use the sewing machine, as well as basic sewing techniques and processes. Start by sampling, then construct a simple garment.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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  11. Drawing in colour: summer school intensive
    Course start date:  Wed 24 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kim Scouller
    Explore 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 £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  12. Wax carving for the foundry: cast your sculpture in bronze
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 27 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Valerie Merlo
    Carve, melt and form wax to create a small figurative or abstract bronze sculpture. The wax will be cast in bronze at the Castle Arts Foundry and returned finished.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00
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  13. City Lit Pro: Adobe Illustrator intensive
    Course start date:  Tue 30 Jul 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gita Hahn
    A comprehensive introduction to creating vector graphics using Illustrator. Learn how to use the pen tool, shapes, brushes, patterns, live trace and effects and gain experience in techniques and strategies useful to graphic designers and illustrators.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £349.00
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  14. DSLR for video: shoot and edit in a week
    Course start date:  Wed 7 Aug 2024

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Photography Studio

    Tutors:  David Kline
    Think quality video production needs a whole film crew? Think again! Discover how you can easily shoot and edit professional-level video on your own digital SLR camera; get expert guidance on the whole process and find out why DSLRs have become the camera of choice for many broadcast professionals.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  15. Introduction to watercolour painting
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Sep 2024 (and 11 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anne-Marie Foster
    Gain 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 £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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