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- Excel: advancedCourse start date: Wed 8 Mar 2023 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Aurica JalbaLearn advanced features of Excel: linking, advanced sorting, filtering, advanced formulae, scenarios, data validation and audit spreadsheet, pivot tables and macros to create and work with complex spreadsheets.
This course will be delivered online or in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Drawing: charcoal techniquesCourse start date: Tue 28 Mar 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelley WilsonExplore the creative possibilities that this fragile medium affords. Learn and develop the components of drawing with charcoal’s subtle yet dynamic lines. This is a course for beginners. No experience is necessary.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Drawing: colour pastel techniquesCourse start date: Mon 13 Mar 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterExplore the versatility and rich colours of this beautiful drawing and painting medium. Through practical exercises, discover its potential to create a variety of surface effects and its suitability for sketching and outdoor colour work.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Drawing: ink and wash techniquesCourse start date: Mon 17 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lisa IvoryThe immediacy and versatility of ink and wash is perfect for those sketching on location, for designers and for students interested in watercolour techniques. Take the opportunity to explore the basic techniques of this exciting process.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Relief printmaking for beginnersCourse start date: Mon 17 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire HyndsLearn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Screenprinting for beginnersCourse start date: Mon 17 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire HyndsThis course is a creative and practical introduction to the screen-printing process, aimed at beginners and the curious. You will learn step by step how to make your own series of silk screen prints using a variety of techniques.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Typography: hand-made techniques
Course start date: Mon 17 Apr 2023Location on this date: Keeley Street
Typography is the keystone of good graphic design and can be used in a wide range of approaches to influence your artwork and design intentions. Designing and working with type will offer a practical opportunity to develop an in-depth appreciation of typography, learning its history, how type has been used in industry and in referecne to many world infleuntial deisgners. Learn how to effectively create, manipulate type, layout and embed type within your design work using the professional industry software Adobe Indesign and Adobe Illustrator.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Video blogging with YouTube: introductionCourse start date: Tue 18 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yolanda De Los Bueis UnanuaLearn how to create a video blog (vlog) in your own YouTube channel. Use YouTube full capabilities as social network, video editor and publisher. Edit and enhance your videos with effects and music using open source software Shotcut. Share and connect your channel with other channels and social networks.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Sketchbooks: ideas, materials and techniquesCourse start date: Wed 19 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth BrisonA 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 £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Introduction to body castingCourse start date: Thu 20 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Belinda EdwardsAn introduction to casting parts of the body from hands and limbs to faces and entire heads. We will also look at how to assemble moulds to eliminate bad registration lines and mould distortions in the finished plaster casts.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Painting: colour mixingCourse start date: Fri 21 Apr 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenA concise study of colour usage. Investigate colour perception and how colour interacts. Explore a range of observational and expressive painting projects, relate colour theory to practice and develop confidence using colour. An emphasis on colour mixing using acrylics and oil paint.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Introduction to laser-cutting for printmakingCourse start date: Fri 21 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gareth BerwynLaser-cut is a way to engrave intricate hand drawn designs, photographic imagery or text into plywood blocks, which you will then take into printmaking. This course combines digital and traditional print processes to offer a new take on the art of woodcut.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Watercolour painting: mixed media techniquesCourse start date: Thu 4 May 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack DuplockWatercolour has a rich tradition - this course will explore the more experimental ways of using this pleasurable medium and will present new possibilities for producing exciting new work with mixed media. Make inventive combinations of media to draw from your own found imagery, photographs and sketches.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Graphic design: cut n paste collage techniquesCourse start date: Tue 7 Mar 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pam WilliamsWork with a range of collage techniques, to produce quick cut n paste visuals, generating exploratory, experimental and unexpected outcomes. This short course will take you on a creative journey using hands-on collage methods relevant today in contemporary design. Discover your own unique style and take creative control exploring principles used in graphic design; contrast, balance, hierarchy, repetition and alignment.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Etching for beginnersCourse start date: Tue 25 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloAn exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plate, create beau-tiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both mono-chrome and colour.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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