This 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 cant draw or havent drawn for years, then this is the course for you!

This 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.

This course is an opportunity to explore the natural world using observation skills, to explore formal and informal ways to interpret what you see using different media. You will take inspiration from natural forms including flowers, fruit, bulbs and full plant specimens (depending on the time of year) and develop your technical skills in drawing, painting, colour mixing and tonal judgement. We will begin with experimentation and you will have the option to complete a study as well.

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 an introduction the exciting and contemporary medium of collage. From Hannah Hoch and Raul Hausmann to Sara Fanelli and John Stezaker collage has been an important method of making images for many modern artists. Collage can span a wide range of methods and outcomes and this course is an opportunity to begin to explore the potential of this process.

Collage has been an important method of making images for many modern artists. Some artists find using the readymade can free you up to express yourself more effectively, while others enjoy the meticulous nature of mosaicing an image out of readymade coloured papers. This course offers the opportunity to further explore the potential of collage through experimentation and exploratory activities.

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. As well as weekly sessions (including one visit to a gallery), you will also get a 30-minute one-on-one tutorial with a specialist in your area and a dedicated yearly exhibition. You may also want to take one or more of the promoting creative practice courses to support your development.

This course will allow you to explore painting and drawing to achieve pattern. It is an opportunity to be experimental with learnt techniques to make them your own. You will learn different printing and mark making techniques, such as block printing and stencilling, using mixed media, and will learn about colour theory and its application in creating patterns. You will also explore how to combine and develop ideas to create your own unique patterns

This course is suitable for all abilities. We begin with mark making techniques exploring line, tone, form, and the versatility of a range of materials including charcoal, pencils, ink & pastels. Using the work of other artists, still life objects, portraits and landscapes, we will learn about perspective, composition and colour. You may wish to bring and work in personal sketchbook or develop studies for a portfolio or just join for fun! With artist and lecturer, Alison Kusner.

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.