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All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.
We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- Life drawing and painting
Course start date: Sun 22 May 2022 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Louisa Buck, Luke JonesJoin us to draw from the nude model. Through structured teaching, you'll explore a range of materials and approaches to this fascinating genre, learning about proportion, tone, line, scale and mark making, with reference to other artists. For all levels.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £158.00 - Focus on: Lucian Freud - paint as fleshCourse start date: Sun 22 May 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julie BarlowLucian Freud was a key figure in British Art for nearly seventy years. Uncompromising, ferociously unsentimental with a “cruel” gaze – a realist or painter of the truth? Explore Freud’s fascinating career through his paintings, etchings and drawings.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £42.00 - Spanish: Explore CórdobaCourse start date: Sun 22 May 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yaiza Jiménez CantuesoCome and discover Córdoba, capital of Muslim Spain and the main city in a territory located in the centre of Andalusia. In this city is where you can find the mesmerising multiarched Mezquita a symbol of the sophisticated culture that flourished here more than a millennium ago.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £18.00 - City Lit Pro: Adobe Creative Cloud intensive stage 1Course start date: Mon 23 May 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea MarzanoCity Lit Pro courses are tailored for accelerated learning for busy people who need to learn key skills for the workplace.On this Adobe Creative Cloud course,covering Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign,you will learn key tools and techniques to develop, deliver and optimise vector graphics, photographic images and page layout and
design.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £225.00 - Develop your filmmakingCourse start date: Mon 23 May 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczLooking for an opportunity to build on your previous film making and editing experiences? Want to develop your leaning further, make more experiences or simply have some further guidance? Then this class is for you.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £256.00 - Expressive colour drawing with mixed mediaCourse start date: Mon 23 May 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ute KreymanUse mixed media and colour to enrich your understanding of drawing; engage with different drawing techniques and materials, collage, mono print, simple models of spaces and a short introduction to colour theory.
All levels welcome.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £115.00 - Writing for magazinesCourse start date: Tue 24 May 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Laura SilvermanGet inspired to write on this practical course for freelance journalists and bloggers. Learn to carry out research, interview people, pitch and publish stories, and build your presence on social media.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £52.00 - Life drawing: an extended studyCourse start date: Tue 24 May 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chris HoughA comprehensive course to build skills, vision and flair in drawing the human form. Use traditional and experimental approaches and a range of media, including charcoal and pastel.Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £195.00 - Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on colourCourse start date: Tue 24 May 2022
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 £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £237.00 - Introduction to critical and analytic theories for photographyCourse start date: Tue 24 May 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Armelle SkatulskiAn introduction to some of the main ways of thinking about photography, based on cultural theory, politics, philosophy and semiotics.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £109.00 - Drawing 3Course start date: Tue 24 May 2022
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 £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £231.00 - Ways into creative writing: an introductionCourse start date: Tue 3 May 2022 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online (other locations are available)
Tutors: Eleanor PennyNot sure whether creative writing is for you? Give it a try on one of these fun and supportive short courses covering the basics of fiction and poetry. Increase your confidence and produce work through guided exercises and discussion.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £52.00 - Sketching at the museum: British MuseumCourse start date: Thu 26 May 2022
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Diane MartinWork from a fascinating range of artefacts and objects in the British Museum while developing your drawing skills. Explore the challenges and pleasures of sketchbook drawing methods using a variety of drawing materials under expert guidance from the tutor.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00 - WordPress: introductionCourse start date: Thu 26 May 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online (other locations are available)
Tutors: George StickneyLearn the essential skills required to create a website and/or blog using the world's most popular content management system - WordPress.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £100.00 - Jewellery: raising repousee and fold-formingCourse start date: Fri 27 May 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettLearn the traditional techniques of repousse (pushed metal) and fold forming. You will learn the basics of the traditional method of creating a raised design or pattern using punches and hammers to form flat sheet and explore the use of single and multiple folds in sheet metal to help you create your own 3-dimensional forms. Emphasis will be on experimentation of the demonstrated techniques with copper, as the organic processes create a wide variety of unique results.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £121.00
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