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- Portraits 2
Course start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Brian SayersDevelop your knowledge of the technical aspects of portraiture further and expore your understanding of what makes a convincing portrait. Undertake practical projects which enable you to develop a personal approach to the subject as the course progresses.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting II Course start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyLearn introductory skills and techniques of pattern cutting to understand how to draft your garment from a design. Expand your knowledge as you learn how drape, adapt blocks, manipulate patterns and understanding garment fitting and shape.
This course is suitable for learners with some pattern cutting knowledge.
For learners who have already completed this course, you can try a more advanced dress featuring detailing such as pleats, ruffles or gathering.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Metal sculpture: beginners to intermediateCourse start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrew RevellLearn the techniques required in making sculptural/functional objects in steel: cutting, bending, welding and joining small scale metal. Please bring ideas, inspiration and scrap metal. This course is for beginners and those at intermediate level.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Calligraphy: modern copperplate Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksLearn how to write elegant letterforms using a pointed pen with ink. Once you have learnt how to write a basic copperplate alphabet, we will begin breaking the rules of traditional calligraphy to find a style that is all your own. The course is suitable for beginners as well as improvers, and both left-handers and right-handers.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Painting and drawing dialogues: performance and the body Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chris Hough, 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 - Jazz harmony, ear training and ensembles: intermediateCourse start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cerys HoggPractise ear training, study jazz harmony, and learn challenging repertoire in term 2 of this substantial course. For able players with established jazz education at foundation level. New applicants may apply to be assessed for entry by contacting music@citylit.ac.uk. Break week 18 Feb.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £314.00 - Drawing 1 Course start date: Wed 15 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor BedlowAn introduction to drawing from observation through a carefully structured approach in a studio environment. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Jazz harmony, ear training and ensembles: advancedCourse start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Della RhodesFocus on ear training and developing jazz improvisation, applying theoretical understanding to practical situations. In this 2nd term of the year we will continue to learn jazz standards and unusual repertoire. This is musicianship training at a high level. New applicants may apply to music@citylit.ac.uk to arrange an audition.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £314.00 - 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 - 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 1 Course start date: Tue 4 Feb 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kim ScoullerPainting 1 offers an introduction to the basic principles and skills associated with painting. Focus on differing approaches to observational and imaginative work, whilst learning how to organise a palette, mix colours and create different textures.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - 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 - Introduction to papier mâchéCourse start date: Fri 14 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterWhether working on a stage set, a window display, or just making gifts for friends and family, Paper Mache remains one of the most cost effective and durable modelling materials around. From Venetian masks to decorative Japanese bowls, this medium has stood the test of time. The hardened consistency of Paper Mache makes it an ideal base for a number of exciting finishes and patinas. Replicate the finish of wood, metal, stone and more, to create a lighter and more portable version of sculptures, picture frames and jewellery.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 projectsCourse 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
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