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.

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 you will then explore ways to develop your drawings and paintings into personal projects, using a variety of approaches. You will also be shown examples of relevant artist?s work to inspire and support your learning.

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, or alternatively use online resources to visit a range of locational virtually. You will then explore ways to develop your drawings and painting using a variety of approaches.

The aim for the course is to stimulate your imagination by exploring image making from a range of non-observational starting points. You will explore and experiment with various techniques and media, including painting, drawing, collage and some 3D construction. You will be introduced to a range of different artists, from the history of art and contemporary, in order to learn from their approaches and ideas.

This informal course is for complete beginners as well as improvers to explore the visual world by beginning to develop drawing and painting skills. You will be encouraged to develop ideas within your sketchbook and each week we will have feedback within the group. Of this 5-week course, the 2nd and 4th weeks will be online, giving you the opportunity to reduce the time required in the college building while still engaging with the course. These online sessions will take place on Zoom.

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.

An exciting opportunity to begin your visual arts practice through the study of drawing and painting. The course starts with an exploration of media and materials through drawing as well as the development of visual arts study skills. The course culminates in the production of a colour-based personal project.

An exciting opportunity to develop your visual arts practice through personalised portfolio projects. This course starts with an extensive exploration of media and materials through drawing and then leads in to thematic development of personal projects in a professional context. The course culminates in an exhibition organised by the group.