Abstract PaintingFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204041TutorBeñat OlaberriaCourse DatesMondays, 3rd July - 21st August 2023Days8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis eight-week course is an introduction to abstract painting. The course‘s emphasis is on both the discussion and the practical aspects; making us question our aesthetic attractions and our decision making. You will look at working with colour and texture and culminate your course in an own self-directed painting.
Jake GreenMonday Mix£260.00Course CodeEC2204015TutorVarious tutorsCourse DatesMondays, 3rd July - 21st August 2023Days8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£260LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learning new artistic skills, discovering what you enjoy most, and developing creative ideas. Over the ten weeks, students work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Throughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, along with more expressive sculpture and painting. Students will also learn to approach the human figure through drawing, painting and sculpture, before rounding off the course with an introduction to printmaking. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials, and have fun.- Jake GreenMonday Mix£260.00Course CodeEC2204115TutorVarious tutorsCourse DatesMondays, 3rd July - 21st August 2023Days8Times6.00pm – 8.30pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£260LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learning new artistic skills, discovering what you enjoy most, and developing creative ideas. Over the ten weeks, students work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Throughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, along with more expressive sculpture and painting. Students will also learn to approach the human figure through drawing, painting and sculpture, before rounding off the course with an introduction to printmaking. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials, and have fun.
Portrait PaintingFrom: £260.00Course CodeEC2204018TutorAndrew HitchcockCourse DatesMondays, 3rd July - 21st August 2023Days8Times6.15pm - 8.45pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£260LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis is a well structured course giving students opportunity to understand how to paint a portrait. The emphasis will be on learning to see form and colour accurately and using these skills to better create loose, expressive portraits. Working with oil paints students will develop a series of artworks, from short expressive painting sketches, to longer more detailed pieces. The class has the benefit of 1:8 model to student ratio, as well as tuition from a talented professional artist.
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Intermediate PaintingFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204038TutorKinga MarkusCourse DatesTuesdays, 4th July - 22nd August 2023Days8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis is an exciting course, which aims to help you discover what it is about painting that really inspires you. It is a great follow-on course from our ‘Painting for Beginners’ or ‘Creative Painting for Beginners’ and will also suit you if you already have some basic experience of painting and want to take your skills to the next level. The course begins by developing your core painting skills, exploring line, tone, colour and mass, whilst continually pushing your creative expression. The tutor will lead you to draw inspiration from many other artist’s work and will guide you step by step through the stages of developing your own painting. They will help you engage with the subject matters and styles that excite you and assist you in bringing them into your own artworks. By looking at a broad variety of techniques, materials and styles, the course aims to broaden your ability to express yourself in paint.
Introduction to Oil PaintingFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204037TutorGail Seres-WoolfsonCourse DatesTuesdays, 4th July - 22nd August 2023Days8Times6.15pm - 8.45pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRA structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before and for those who want to reinforce their basic oil skills or to move on to using oil paints having used acrylics or water-based media. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate these elements together in compositions with access to a life model. This course aims will nurture self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating, fun and relaxing environment. It is an ideal course for beginners as there is plenty of guidance from the tutor.
Painting for BeginnersFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204013TutorAlice ClarkeCourse DatesTuesdays, 4th July - 22nd August 2023Days8Times6.15pm - 8.45pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis is a well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or want to reassess their approach to painting. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate all these elements together in compositions. This course aims to foster self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating environment. Working through a series of exercises you will gain experience and skills in painting still life, self portrait and the interior. Whilst also exploring a more creative approach to painting, helping you establish your own style and identity. This course is a fun and relaxing experience, offering plenty of guidance from the tutor.
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Creative Painting for BeginnersFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204004TutorBeñat OlaberriaCourse DatesWednesdays 5th July - 23rd AugustDays8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis is an exciting course that will stimulate your creativity and teach you how to use paint through a variety of different techniques. It is an opportunity to develop your own personal painting style and create paintings with real meaning to you as well as enjoying exploring the medium of paint’s full potential. The tutor will lead you to draw on inspiration from many other artists’ work and will guide you step by step through the stages of developing your own artwork. The course covers basic painting techniques such as line, tone, understanding colour as well as the application of paint. It also explores more expressive methods through simple exercises focusing on composition, abstraction and working with the figure. You will spend time in the last few weeks developing a finished painting, using techniques you have developed over the duration of the course.- Introduction to Oil PaintingFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204137TutorMercedes BalleCourse DatesWednesdays 5th July - 23rd AugustDays8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRA structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before and for those who want to reinforce their basic oil skills or to move on to using oil paints having used acrylics or water-based media. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate these elements together in compositions with access to a life model. This course aims will nurture self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating, fun and relaxing environment. It is an ideal course for beginners as there is plenty of guidance from the tutor.
- Painting for BeginnersFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204113TutorJackie SmithCourse DatesWednesdays 5th July - 23rd AugustDays8Times6.15pm - 8.45pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis is a well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or want to reassess their approach to painting. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate all these elements together in compositions. This course aims to foster self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating environment. Working through a series of exercises you will gain experience and skills in painting still life, self portrait and the interior. Whilst also exploring a more creative approach to painting, helping you establish your own style and identity. This course is a fun and relaxing experience, offering plenty of guidance from the tutor.
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Developing Your Style – Painting TechniquesFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204029TutorKinga MarkusCourse DatesThursdays 6th July - 24th AugustDays8Times6.15pm - 8.45pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis course focuses on developing each student’s style of painting, both through pushing creative expression and refining technical ability. By working from the model, and by developing with a creative project, students will explore multiple ways of using paint to convey a certain message or feeling. In the first part of the course students will be working from the figure, developing core painting skills whilst also reflecting on their use of paint. Working with oil and/or acrylic paints students will develop a series of artworks, from quick sketches to longer more developed pieces. Focus will be on developing expressive paintings that through their specific use of colour, composition and brushwork, have something to say about the human figure. This will be informed by looking at different ways other artists have used paint to achieve a certain result. In the second part of the course students will work on a personal creative project. Students will be guided step by step through the process of developing an idea, collecting source material and references, experimenting with different techniques and approaches, before the final execution. By looking at contemporary and historical artists, and through dialogue with the group, students will develop their creative and critical awareness. This course would be a great follow on from the Intermediate Painting or Figure and Portrait Painting.- Introduction to Oil PaintingFrom: £250.00Course CodeEC2204237TutorMercedes BalleCourse DatesThursdays 6th July - 24th AugustDays8Times6.30pm - 9.00pmExperience LevelBeginnerFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRA structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before and for those who want to reinforce their basic oil skills or to move on to using oil paints having used acrylics or water-based media. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate these elements together in compositions with access to a life model. This course aims will nurture self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating, fun and relaxing environment. It is an ideal course for beginners as there is plenty of guidance from the tutor.
Outdoor Creative Painting£250.00Course CodeEC2204024TutorGail Seres-WoolfsonCourse DatesThursdays 6th July - 24th AugustDays8Times6.00pm – 8.30pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£250LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR, Various locationsAs well as being very informative, this course is great fun and offers the fantastic opportunity to paint in and around the landscape of London Bridge. The Art Academy is just a short stroll from all sorts of exciting locations that could become a focus of a painting; the Thames, the Tate, Borough Market, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s, the shard, building sites and lots of small gardens. The majority of this course will be based outdoors painting on site, although there will be a studio available for use if the weather prevents us from working outdoors. You will learn techniques of tone, colour, atmosphere, composition, perspective, as well as how to be organised and efficient with materials when working out and about. The course culminates in the studio developing a more ambitious painting working from sketches or photos.