This friendly 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 materials, how to get a 3-D effect in drawing, how to shade, how to compose a picture, etc. If you think you can’t draw or haven’t drawn for years and years, and then this is the course for you. Your experienced tutor will set simple visual exercises as well as help to develop your drawings into personal projects.

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.

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 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.

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.

This course provides an excellent opportunity to develop good observational skills, drawing directly from the life model. You will learn ways of representing the figure in line and tone to describe both proportion and structure. You will have the opportunity to work across a range of approaches and use different drawing media. The tutor uses examples of relevant artists work to inspire and support your learning