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 will allow you to explore painting and drawing to achieve pattern. It is an opportunity to be experimentative 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. You will learn about colour theory and its application in creating patterns. You will explore how to combine and develop ideas to create your own unique patterns

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 on drawing perspective, observational still life, portraiture and landscape, using a range of drawing materials and media. There is also an opportunity to draw in a museum setting.

This course is an opportunity to explore what drawing and painting are and how you can explore the visual world around you using them as a tool. 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. You will then explore ways to develop your drawings and painting into personal projects using a variety of approaches and supported by an experienced tutor.

This friendly and informal course is an opportunity for complete beginners, as well as improvers, to explore the visual world by beginning to develop basic drawing and painting skills.

On this course you will be introduced to the basic principles and methods of painting and use of colour in relation to landscape painting. Depending on weather the classes will be studio based working from photos or outside in the Camden area.

The course will look at creative depth using tone and how to create a sense of space and atmosphere in your work.