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- Contemporary sketchbook: mixed media projects
Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)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 - Drawing 2 Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Brian SayersBuild 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 £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - ITEC Level 2 Award in Providing Facial Skincare (adults 21+) Course start date: Wed 22 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Stacey ShimAre you looking to gain a qualification that will enable you to provide Facial Skincare treatments, either as an add-on to your current therapist practise, or as a stand-alone offering? Our Level 2 Award in Facial Skincare will give you a recognised qualification that will allow you to provide and develop bespoke Luxury Facial Skincare treatments to your client base, both within a salon setting and as a mobile therapist.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00 - Drawing 3 Course start date: Thu 23 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyExplore 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 £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Documentary filmmaking Course start date: Thu 23 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczDocumentary-style films are the most popular genre on Social Media, on TV, and in Film festivals. Come and learn the essential techniques that make a gripping documentary.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Jewellery: chain making and enamellingCourse start date: Fri 24 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kinga OlahHave you taken a beginners course and are looking to progress your jewellery making? Develop and refine your design and making skills through guided projects applying a range of precision skills to create metal jewellery. This course focuses on building the technical skills used in chain-making, catches and enamelling but also provides the opportunity for students to work on their own projects.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Painting and drawing dialogues: performance and the body Course start date: Sat 25 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony Hull, Monika KitaDrawings and paintings can capture the body’s movement in their surface, alongside registering an image. By focusing on the ‘performance of making’ new perspectives will inform a more individual approach to your work.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Art and design portfolio projectsCourse start date: Mon 27 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rod JudkinsDevelop and realise your creative language in art and design through the development of a personal project. Through workshops and small projects you will be able to build a portfolio of work in 2D and 3D related to your own personal theme or interest.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Printmaking studio: focus on colour Course start date: Tue 28 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
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 - Advance your life drawing Course start date: Wed 29 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
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 - Painting 2 Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenBuilding on techniques and approaches covered in the Painting 1, this course enables you to work with more depth and a stronger emphasis on experimentation. This is suitable if you already have some experience in painting.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Oil painting projects Course start date: Sun 16 Feb 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda WalkerOil paint is a uniquely luscious and sensitive medium, which can be used to create expressive and complex images. This course is for oil painters with some experience who want to develop their own individual painting projects, with expert tutor guidance.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Screenprinting studio projects Course start date: Fri 28 Feb 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HogarthDevelop your screen-printing in this weekly taught workshop where you will be shown new techniques, from using halftones and photo processes, layering colour, stenciling and experimental techniques to printing on textiles and professional practice.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - VTCT level 3 Award in Crystal therapy Course start date: Sun 2 Mar 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohCrystals are much more than just pretty stones; they have been used for their healing properties and as protective amulets and talismans in many different cultures around the world for centuries. Learn how to practice crystal therapy to a professional level on this exciting course.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00 - Sculpture: inspired by Barbara HepworthCourse start date: Sun 2 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelley WilsonBe inspired by the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth. Delve into the natural world that inspired her work and make a small series of sculptures using plaster, soap and Kraft Board.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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