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.

Build up confidence with your sketching techniques and learn about famous artworks including Canaletto, Rubens, Titian and Rembrandt. Each week we will sketch at the Wallace Collection and look at hidden meanings, style and techniques of artists and improve drawing skills. We will work from still life, landscape, portraits & sculptures. With artist and lecturer Alison Kusner. This is an off-site course hosted at the Wallace Collection and you will need to bring your own sketchbook and dry drawing materials to the sessions.

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.

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.

Explore the challenging techniques of watercolour painting and start to realise its potential. Watercolour has an amazing range of qualities and has much potential to explore for the beginner, or even for the experienced artist. You will learn techniques such as wash, layering of colour, brush handling, creating still life and observation works, and develop your own imaginative artwork.

This course is suitable for beginners who wish to learn the basics of life drawing – measuring – capturing a person – learn to experiment with different drawing techniques, then experiment with pastels- Degas style and just have fun. More experienced participants can develop personal projects and experiment to develop wonderful, colourful life drawings.