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  1. Painting for beginners: intensive
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mario Lautier Vella
    Learn and develop essential painting skills over consecutive days. Each session will focus on an aspect of painting, covering key concepts including colour, tone, composition and brushwork. Ideal if you have little or no painting experience.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  2. Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  3. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. Life painting for beginners
    Course start date:  Mon 6 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tony Hull
    This short course is a great introduction to painting directly from the unclothed life model. Using simple projects, you will explore different ways to represent the human form in paint, with encouraging, helpful guidance from an experienced tutor. Suitable for absolute beginners.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  5. Developing watercolour painting
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jack Duplock
    Explore the specific qualities of watercolour and the opportunities this adaptable medium offers to create dynamic painting compositions. Develop a fluency with brush work and layering of colour to develop compositional possibilities.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  6. Full fee £959.00 Senior fee £767.00 Concession £623.00
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  7. Painting for beginners
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 9 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Begona Morea Roy
    Experience the joy of painting. Through simple exercises you'll explore colour, painting techniques and the expressive qualities of painting using acrylic paints. The perfect way to start painting.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00
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  8. Ways into abstract painting
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mario Lautier Vella
    Encounter different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a range of painting materials. With reference to the work of a variety of abstract artists explore the visual language common to both representation and abstraction, eg. colour, composition, tone and paint application.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  9. Artists eye: painting nature
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Kate Hardy
    Artist’s Eye: Painting Nature.







    Learn painting while learning about contemporary and historical artists, including Eileen Agar, Giorgio Morandi, Georgia O’Keefe, Fernand Leger, and Kara Walker in this four week course. We will make paintings inspired by artists whose subject is nature, be guided by their choices of subject matter, and learn from their methods of paint application, colour mixing, and composition. Acrylic paint can be used for all projects and in one project we will work from collage. This short course can be taken alone or in conjunction with the other modules.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00
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  10. Painting: colour mixing for artists
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amanda Bracken
    A 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 £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  11. Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00
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  12. Watercolour painting: experimental approaches
    Course start date:  Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Build your confidence in watercolour how to approach painting. Learn how to apply imaginative of washes and brushwork; enjoy the colour and fluidity of this beautiful medium and discover if you would like to take it to the next level.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  13. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  14. Introduction to watercolour painting
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 18 Jan 2025 (and 6 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Allen
    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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  15. Drawing into watercolour painting
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Chris Hough
    Explore the relationship between the two disciplines of drawing and watercolour painting and the opportunities when their distinct qualities are combined.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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