This fun, supportive, and informal online course is an opportunity for absolute beginners to explore the visual world by developing basic drawing skills starting from scratch: How to use your materials. How to achieve a 3-D effect using light and shade. Exploring basic composition. How to vary your mark making techniques. So, if you think you can’t draw or haven’t drawn for years, then this is the course for you!

This fun, informal, and supportive, course is for absolute beginners or returners to art, to explore the visual world by beginning to develop drawing & painting skills through a variety of quick fire and longer exercises. Using a variety of media including pencil, biro, charcoal and paints, you will be encouraged to develop ideas within your sketchbook.

On this course you will learn how to develop your own art projects in response to those set by the teacher, or your own project idea. Using the sketchbook provided, you will collect visual references and ideas, develop projects from these and find ways of working with guidance from the teacher and in discussion with peers. We will discuss how to use galleries and museums to inform your work and how to resolve, select, present and document your work for progression or for your own development.

Have fun and learn drawing techniques exploring line, tone, form, and the versatility of a range of materials including charcoal, pencils, ink & pastels. Learn about artists and their process, still life, portraits and landscapes. You will learn about perspective, composition and colour while creating a fabulous sketchbook. With artist and lecturer, Alison Kusner.

You will take inspiration from natural forms including flowers, fruit, bulbs and full plant specimens. You will develop technical skills in drawing, painting, colour mixing and tonal judgement and explore formal and informal ways to interpret the natural world thorough different media.Sessions may include activities using drawing, watercolour, acrylic painting, printmaking and ink as well as demonstrations and presentations by the tutor.

This course is ideal for anyone with a developing creative practice in any area. We will cover a range of subjects that will support your development as a creative, including research idea development and meaningful reflection. The aim of the course is to inspire, research and develop work independently. Homework will be set between classes to encourage this practice. You may also want to take one or more of the promoting creative practice courses to support your development.

This course will introduce you to painting and drawing techniques to create patterns and designs for surfaces, or act as a springboard for digital design projects. You will explore how rotation and reflection can create an effective pattern. We will look at different sources of inspiration, from nature, geometry, abstract forms, flora, fauna, as well as designers and artists that create patterns.

On this course, you will be introduced to a range of drawing skills and painting techniques. This course will give you an opportunity to explore a range of drawing and painting media. You will practice techniques in the studio and further explore ways to develop your drawings and paintings into personal projects, using a variety of approaches. You will also be shown examples of relevant artists work to inspire and support your learning.

This course will give you an opportunity to learn a range of drawing skills and techniques. If you are a complete beginner or you have done some drawing before and want to improve your skills, then this is the course for you. Sessions will include techniques in perspective, observational still life, landscape composition, portraiture and landscape, using a range of drawing materials and media. There is also an opportunity to draw in a museum setting if this is possible.

This course is an opportunity to develop drawing and painting skills and use them as a tool to explore the visual world around you. As well as exploring techniques in the studio, you will draw out in the real world with a number of visits to interesting locations during the course, or alternatively use online resources to visit a range of locations virtually. You will then explore ways to develop your drawings and paintings using a variety of approaches.