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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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- Introduction to jewellery making
Course start date: Fri 15 Jul 2022 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Louise Seijen Ten HoornDiscover metal jewellery making techniques to create a piece of jewellery. You will be introduced to the basic
processes of forging, texturing, soldering and cutting out shapes in metal. You will learn how to create a ring to the
correct finger size.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £152.00 - Customising a WordPress websiteCourse start date: Sun 17 Jul 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gal SapirThe course will teach you the necessary CSS skills to further customise a WordPress website. You will use this knowledge together with the WordPress post types to create a sleek and modern website.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £110.00 - Introduction to watercolour and mixed mediaCourse start date: Sun 17 Jul 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterWatercolour 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 £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £188.00 - Sculpture: inspired by RodinCourse start date: Mon 18 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelley WilsonIn City Lit’s sculpture studio try out selected techniques used by Rodin to create your own sculptures, inspired by the Rodin sculptures in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £152.00 - Designing textiles using Photoshop intensiveCourse start date: Mon 18 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kirsty KirkpatrickCreate patterns and designs for textiles which may then be printed onto cloth. This course is ideal for beginners in Photoshop who are textile artist's or designers, or for anyone interested in exploring pattern, colour and texture.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £134.00 - pre-Foundation: summer intensiveCourse start date: Tue 19 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rod Judkins, Ute Kreyman, Marcus Richards, Andrea VoiseyThis exciting and intensive course is a chance to develop key creative skills, methods and thinking in art and design, across 2D and 3D materials and techniques, and critical studies, to prepare you for application and entry to our UAL-validated, Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design.Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £439.00 Concession £384.00 - Contemporary drawing sketchbookCourse start date: Thu 21 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon EnglishExplore the sequential and adaptive nature of sketchbook drawing as a site for generating personal material, inviting connections, and extracting patterns of meaning. Includes gallery research, set-project as stimulus, and practical exploration of contemporary drawing techniques.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £140.00 - Contemporary drawing studioCourse start date: Fri 22 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony HullExplore 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 £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £152.00 - Textiles and surface pattern: drawing and designCourse start date: Sun 24 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Janie MurphyInvestigate mark making, layering and juxtaposing ideas through experimental drawings. Explore the importance of imaginative research and how to record it in a sketchbook. Develop versatile design textile ideas for interiors, fashion, stationery or text.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £127.00 - Textiles: waxed surfacesCourse start date: Sun 24 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amarjeet NandhraInvestigate the different ways wax can be used on paper and fabric; create surface decoration using a range of resist techniques or alter the structure of a surface and experiment with translucency, structure and stitch.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £127.00 - Actor summer school: improversCourse start date: Mon 25 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean Croft, Juliet PragueA five day intensive course designed to enhance your skills and develop your confidence in acting. Explore a range of exercises and acting techniques that will illuminate and enliven scripts and scenes. Ideal for those who have completed a beginner’s level course.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £140.00 - Calligraphy and decorated letterformsCourse start date: Mon 25 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sharon ShawLearn how to create decorative letterforms to use as individual pieces or incorporate into your calligraphy work. This course will not only show you how to design and draw illuminated letters, but will introduce you to some of the history behind this beautiful art form.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £182.00 - Life figurative sculpture intensiveCourse start date: Mon 25 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelley WilsonCreate a figurative clay sculpture from observing a life model. Learn basic anatomy as well as gaining clay modelling
techniques. Beginners are welcome on this intensive course.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £213.00 - Stop motion animation in a weekCourse start date: Mon 25 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie GriffithsThrow yourself into the world of stop motion animation on this intensive practical course. Explore a range of materials and techniques to produce exciting drawn, cut out and 3D animation sequences. Invaluable for your show reel.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £152.00 - City Lit Pro: Adobe Illustrator intensiveCourse start date: Fri 29 Jul 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gita HahnCity Lit Pro courses provide accelerated learning for busy people who need specific skills for the workplace. On this intensive and fast-paced course you'll learn the fundamental skills you need to design and manipulate vector graphics to create graphics, logos and simple illustrations using Adobe Illustrator. Students should be comfortable with a fast-paced learning environment and have good computer skills.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £175.00
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