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20th Century United States Art – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH03 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 5th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £115.00Although Paris remained the centre of the art world at the beginning of the 20th Century, in the United States, art was progressing at a frantic pace, often independent of developments elsewhere. The gritty realism of the Ashcan School developed in New York at a time when that city was undergoing significant social changes. Two World Wars brought vast numbers of European émigrés to the country, bringing with them trends which influenced their American peers. Abstract Expressionism, credited entirely to the United States shifted the focus away from Europe; America now dominated trends. Pop Art was a perfect reflection of consumer-driven Post-War America. Political change brought about by the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, broadened the scope of topics an artist might address, an attitude which continues to the present day.
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Acrylic Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2302213 Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £365 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Thursday 21st December 2023 From: £365.00This is a well-structured 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 fun and stimulating environment.
Working through a series of exercises you will explore the following subjects:
– Tone
– Colour & Abstraction
– Paint application & texture
– Still life
– Portraits
– LanscapesYou will explore a more creative approach to painting whilst encouraging you to establish your own style and identity. You will also have the opportunity to paint from a life model, and complete your own personal projects. This course is a fun and relaxing experience, offering plenty of guidance from the tutor.
After completing this course we recommend signing up for Painting: Developing Your Style.
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Art & Identity Politics, 1965 to Present – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH05 Tutor: Dr Oriana Fox Course Dates: Tuesdays, 20th February - 19th March 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6 - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Tuesday 30th January 2024 £115.00This new course explores the impact of identity politics on the practice and curation of visual art from 1965 to the present.
We’ll be taking a closer look at artworks informed by feminism, anti-racism, post-colonialism, class and labour advocacy, LGBTQ+ and disability rights as well as their intersections. These works often represent the artist’s authentic life experiences to counter and interrogate stereotypes, leading to innovations in both the subject matter and form of art.
Such innovations also include the varied forms of activist art, direct action and public intervention aimed at combatting the systematic exclusion of minorities from culture. Activism has informed the re-writing of art history, the curation of exhibitions and the expansion of collections.Though ‘identity politics’ is a contentious term, students will examine its origins and the contemporary intersectional politics that follow on from it, moving beyond the tokenism that merely extends existing canons, aiming instead to question the very value systems that underpin them.
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Creative Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2302004 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £370 Location: Art Academy London - Red Lion Court, Ground Floor, 46-48 Park St, SE1 9EQ Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 From: £370.00Creative Painting for Beginners is an exciting course that will stimulate your creativity and teach you how to use acrylic 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 exploring the medium of paint and understanding it’s 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 will cover exciting topics and exercises such as:
– Line and tone
– Colour and imagination
– Application of paint
– Painting from photographs
– Painting a still life
– Painting the figure using a life model
– Composition and abstraction
The tutor will lead a mind map exercise, to encourage students to create their own personal painting project. By exploring other artists’ works for inspiration, there will be time for discussion and trying out different techniques in your work. You will spend time in the last few weeks developing a finished painting, and building on the new skills you have acquired from the course. This course would be perfect for someone new to painting, or a beginner with some experience looking to explore different styles. There are several appropriate follow on courses including Painting the Figure, Abstract Painting and Painting Outdoors, depending on your area of interest.
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Decorative Ceramics
Course Code: EC2302047 Tutor: Annette Bugansky Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.15pm - 8.45pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £370 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £370.00A comprehensive introduction into the methods and variety of creative potential of sculptural ceramics. The course covers studio practice, clay types, basic core techniques of hand building for sculpture: coiling, pinching, slab building and surface decoration. These will be taught and put into practice to make finished ceramic forms. Through practical projects you will understand the material and, with emphasis on experimentation, how you can manipulate it to create a variety of forms. These can then be decorated with raw glazes and slips for a once fired finished piece.
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Rachael BallDesign A Children’s Picture Book
Course Code: EC2302023 Tutor: Rachael Ball Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £350 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £350.00In this exciting course you’ll be able to combine both writing and illustrating to create your own engaging children’s picture book.
In the first five weeks of the course you will focus on:
– Writing the first draft of your story
– Developing a story arc
– Designing your characters
– Developing ideas for a page turning script and storyboard planningIn the second half of the course you will:
– Focus on developing and refining your visuals
– Experimenting with colour pencil, watercolour and mixed media to find the best way to bring your story to lifeBy the end of the course, you will have a final set of illustrations, a storyboard, several page layouts and an individual action plan to help you turn your story plans into a finished sample for a publisher.
After completing this course we recommend signing up for our Digital Illustration courses.
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Digital Illustration
Course Code: EC2302094 Tutor: Laura Nasir-Tamara Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 5th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £170.00The aim of this course is to give students a solid overview of the many possibilities Photoshop offers in terms of digital drawing. Each class will be exploring a different type of illustration, including portraiture, character design and environment design, using references and learning how to move away from them to develop every participant’s own visual language. As well as thinking about principles of illustration and drawing that can apply to all media, the aim of this course is to acquire a comprehensive set of digital skills through a series of creative exercises and briefs.
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Digital Painting
Course Code: EC2302095 Tutor: Katerina Iacovides Course Dates: Wednesdays, 10th January - 7th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £170.00This five-week course is a fantastic introduction for those who would like to learn essential digital painting tools using Photoshop.
Based in our Digital Suite, the tutor will guide students through a serious of exercises designed to teach variety of techniques and processes including:– Design concepts
– Composition
– Shape and Colour
– Texture
– Layering
– Digital CollageStudents will be expected and guided to create a final image of their own, bringing together what they have learnt over the previous weeks.
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Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302114 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 7.30pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 From: £310.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302414 Tutor: Mercedes Balle Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £280 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 From: £280.00A creative, entry-level course introducing the basics of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme and provide a wide range of techniques for beginners to get started.
Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will explore and learn:– Line & Tone to understand 3D forms
– Using colour
– Measurement and proportion
– Texture
– CompositionThere will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor. By the end of the course you will have gained a good understanding of the fundamentals of drawing, plan and compose your work, and develop your own personal appraoch to drawing.
Progress onto our ‘Drawing: Stage 2’ course were you can further your drawing practice.
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Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302014 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 5.30pm - 7.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £310.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302214 Tutor: Jess Routley Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 5.30pm - 7.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £310.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302314 Tutor: Jess Routley Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 7.30pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 From: £310.00A creative, entry-level course introducing the basics of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme and provide a wide range of techniques for beginners to get started.
Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will explore and learn:– Line & Tone to understand 3D forms
– Using colour
– Measurement and proportion
– Texture
– CompositionThere will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor. By the end of the course you will have gained a good understanding of the fundamentals of drawing, plan and compose your work, and develop your own personal appraoch to drawing.
Progress onto our ‘Drawing: Stage 2’ course were you can further your drawing practice.
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Drawing: Stage 3
Course Code: EC2302036 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Intermediate Fee: £365 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 From: £365.00This course is designed for students who have either completed our ‘Drawing: Stage 2’ course or already have some experience of drawing and want to take their skills to the next level.
Over the course, students will explore:– Drawing from observation
– Memory and imagination
– Rhythm and movemenentYou will develop a deeper understanding of the drawing process and have time to enhance your drawing skills.
Each week focusses on a particular aspect of drawing. Students will explore measurement and gain confidence in drawing a wide variety of subjects including still life, life models, and urban landscapes. Through using different approaches and materials, students will begin to develop a ‘visual vocabulary’ of drawing. You will develop ways to communicate texture, weight, material and surface in your work.There will be opportunities to work both inside and outside the studio, and in museums and galleries. Working outside of the studio will teach students how to capture movement and figures in space, feeding off the energy of the environment around them. Students will work outside in the ‘real world’, and experience how this produces a different kind of energy in their drawings.
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Etching: Hard Ground and Soft Ground
Course Code: EC2302PR03 Tutor: Frederic Morris RE Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 8th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £205 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £205.00Etching Hardground and Softground. This popular course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees.You will concentrate on hard-ground (fine line) combined with soft-ground (texture) in its various forms. You’ll develop a composition through multi-etching a zinc plate in a mordant of saline sulphate. This course is flexible, allowing you to work at your own speed – and if you’ve attended this course before, you can work on your own individual etching projects. The course fee covers materials including two polished zinc etching plates.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Figure and Portrait Sculpture
Course Code: EC2302005 Tutor: Anthony Waters, Ellen Christiansen MSPS Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner+ Fee: £380 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £380.00If you are interested in learning to sculpt the human figure then this is an ideal class for you. You have the opportunity to explore both the full figure and a portrait head sculpture with a different model for each. You will model in clay for 10 weeks: 5 weeks of Figure Sculpture from a set pose and 5 weeks of Portrait Head Sculpture from a different model. You will get a flavour of the challenges and thrills of both of these disciplines.
We would recommend this course to students who want to concentrate on learning the basics of Portrait and Figure sculpting. As well as the practice and development of working in clay from a model, also covered are measuring skills, observational skills and preparation of a piece for firing. Optional hollowing and firing of the clay sculptures are an additional cost.
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Friday Mix
Course Code: EC2302315 Tutor: Various tutors Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £280 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 £280.00This 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 course, 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.
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Friday Open Life – Long Pose
Course Code: EC2302101 Tutor: Usva Inei Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 7.45pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £125 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 From: £100.00The “Open Life Class – Long Pose” is a relaxed and enjoyable life drawing & painting course with a life model for various poses lasting between one and three weeks at a time.
Students will be able to approach the human figure in any way they please and do as many drawings or paintings as they care to pursue with as much or as little instruction as they like. Your experienced tutors will happily guide both beginners and the more experienced painters.
Students should feel free to use whichever materials they enjoy the most, whether that is drawing in charcoal or ink or painting in oils or acrylics. Cartridge paper is provided for the course but please bring your own drawing/painting materials.
You can also attend this class as a drop-in and pay £15 per session via our Eventbrite page.
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Friday Open Life Drawing: Short Pose
Course Code: EC2302001 Tutor: Usva Inei Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm - 7.30pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 From: £100.00The “Open Life Class – Short Pose” is a relaxed and enjoyable life drawing & painting course with a life model. The model will pose for short lengths of time, ranging from 1 minute – 20 minutes.
Students will be able to approach the human figure in any way they please and do as many drawings or paintings as they care to pursue with as much or as little instruction as they like. Your experienced tutors will happily guide both beginners and the more experienced painters.
Students should feel free to use whichever materials they enjoy the most, whether that is drawing in charcoal or ink or painting in oils or acrylics. Cartridge paper is provided for the course but please bring your own drawing or painting materials.
You can also attend this class as a drop-in and pay £15 per session via our Eventbrite page.
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Hand Built Ceramics
Course Code: EC2302147 Tutor: Adele Williams Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £370 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £370.00This exciting course will teach you how to get started in using clay and create your very own mini collection of ceramic wares, including mugs, bowls, plates and vases. You will also be able to create items as gifts or home decorations.
Throughout the course you will learn core techniques such as coiling, pinching, slab building, as well as decorating methods, to make your bespoke finished wares. You will also have the opportunity to delve into more experimental forms, utilising your new skills to make sculptural objects.
This course will provide a solid understanding and methodology of building and working with clay to make your own creations.
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Kiln Formed Glass
Course Code: EC2302007 Tutor: Jane Ross, Maria Zulueta Course Dates: Tuesdays, 9th January - 26th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: 370 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Tuesday 19th December 2023 £370.00An exploration of the intriguing, magical world of kiln formed glass. This course allows you to learn a variety of techniques including fusing, slumping, hand cut stencils, sandblasting, inclusions, uv bonding and surface decoration. Course tutor Maria Zulueta is a well-respected glassmaker, producing work at vastly different scales from table pieces to installations, with a wealth of experience in supporting you in learning new skills. Under her expert guidance you will use the range of techniques to build a collection of samples and create a final piece. You are free to explore their preferred techniques and those of you who have already done the course can rejoin to continue building upon their previous work with tutored guidance.
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Landscape Painting: A Sense of Place – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302055 Tutor: Tom Voyce Course Dates: Wednesdays, 10th January - 7th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8.30pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £150 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £150.00In this exciting online Landscape painting course, artist Tom Voyce will teach you how to capture the essence of landscapes through painting. Over five weeks, the course will focus on exploring how to create a sense of place in the depicted landscape, through composition, colour mixing, light and tone.
Each week we will explore different themes and topics, such as:
– Capturing composition
– Colour mixing and application techniques
– Underpainting
– Working across several images at once, in stages
– Light and toneThis course is suitable for all levels and will encourage you to paint landscapes through ‘abstract realism’ whilst refining your skills on painting techniques and processes.
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Life Drawing
Course Code: EC2302009 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Tuesdays, 9th January - 26th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner+ Fee: £375 Recommend booking before: Tuesday 19th December 2023 From: £375.00This course will teach a range of drawing skills and develop your understanding of the structure of the human figure. You will study and portray the relationship between figure and space, exploring different themes each week, including:
– Line & Tone
– Measurement
– Movement
– Anatomy
– CompositionYou will be encouraged to explore your own approach to drawing and work through a series of exercises whilst using a wide range of materials including charcoal and graphite. This course teaches basic skills and expressive drawing techniques in a unique way to develop your drawing most effectively. Suitable for more experiences drawers or those who have completed our ‘Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1’ course.
When you have completed this course, we recommend signing up for our Drawing Anatomy course to develop your understanding further.
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Monday Mix 1
Course Code: EC2302015 Tutor: Various tutors Days: 11 Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £385 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £385.00This course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learn new artistic skills, and discover what you enjoy most.
Students work across the different disciplines of:– Painting
– Sculpture
– Drawing
– PrintmakingThroughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, experiment with sculptural techniques, develop fundamental painting skills and have an engaging introdcution to printmaking.
This Beginner course is aimed at those who are looking to step into the art world and gain a basic understanding of different practices. You will be able to develop new skills, experiment with materials and explore creative ideas. This course is a great way to try out different mediums before commiiting to one of our specialised courses. -
Monday Mix 2
Course Code: EC2302115 Tutor: Various tutors Course Dates: Mondays, 15th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 10 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £350 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £350.00This course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learn new artistic skills, and discover what you enjoy most. Students work across the different disciplines of:
– Painting– Sculpture
– Drawing
– Printmaking
Throughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, experiment with sculptural techniques, develop fundamental painting skills and have an engaging introduction to printmaking. This Beginner course is aimed at those who are looking to step into the art world and gain a basic understanding of different practices. You will be able to develop new skills, experiment with materials and explore creative ideas. This course is a great way to try out different mediums before committing to one of our specialised courses.
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Oil Painting for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302537 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £280 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 From: £280.00The perfect introductory course for those who are new to painting or new to working with oil paints. Each week the tutor will guide you in exploring a range of different subject matter and techniques. You will gain the confidence to create your own finished paintings with this versatile medium. Students will be exploring subjects such as:
– Shape and tone
– Volume
– Colour
– Still Life
– Portraits
– Landscapes
You will learn to relate these elements together in compositions, paint from a life model, and in the last three weeks work on a self directed project with the guidance of your tutor. This course offers a structured introduction in a stimulating, fun and relaxing environment.
Join our Stage 2 course to continue your practice.
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Oil Painting for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302137 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 7.30pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 From: £310.00A 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.
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Oil Painting for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302037 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 5.30pm - 7.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £310.00A 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.
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Oil Painting for Beginners: Stage 1 – Online course
Course Code: OC2302037 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Wednesdays, 21st February - 20th March 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6 - 8pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £150 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Wednesday 31st January 2024 £150.00This online course is the place to begin your oil painting journey, for those who have never painted before with oils or for those wanting to reinforce existing skills by returning to basics. Over five weeks, experience the vibrant medium by learning the fundamentals and express your creative potential.
Through practical studies and exercises learn a range of subjects including:
– Tone
– Colour theory
– Approaches to portraitureAt the end of the course you will create your own a personal project and complete work using the knowledge developed throughout.
After completing this course we recommend signing up for Oil Painting: Stage 2
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Portrait Painting
Course Code: EC2302118 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Fridays, 26th January - 22nd March 2024 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £280 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Friday 5th January 2024 From: £280.00This is the perfect introductory course to Portrait Painting, for those with some painting experience. This well structured course will teach students how to accurately paint a portrait, and the different techniques involved.
The emphasis will be on learning to see form and colour accurately, using a life model, and applying these skills to better create loose, expressive portraits.
The course will cover:
– Proportion and the structure of the head
– Tonal studies in monochrome
– Introduction to using colour
– Applying paint using a palette knife
– Contrasting and bright backgroundsStarting with drawing, students will be taught proportion and how to structure the head. Following on, you will be working with oil paints and develop a series of artworks from short expressive painting sketches, to longer more detailed pieces. As the weeks progress you will also have the option to paint more of the figure if preferred. The class has the benefit of an experienced model every week as well as tuition from a talented professional artist.
After completing this course we recommend joining one of our Portrait Painting Masterclasses to further develop your style.
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Portrait Painting
Course Code: EC2302018 Tutor: Julia Hawkins ROI NEAC Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 25th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £390 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £390.00This is the perfect introductory course to Portrait Painting, for those with some painting experience. This well structured course will teach students how to accurately paint a portrait, and the different techniques involved. The emphasis will be on learning to see form and colour accurately, using a life model, and applying these skills to better create loose, expressive portraits.
The course will cover:
– Proportion and the structure of the head
– Tonal studies in monochrome
– Introduction to using colour
– Applying paint using a palette knife
– Contrasting and bright backgrounds
Starting with drawing, students will be taught proportion and how to structure the head. Following on, you will be working with oil paints and develop a series of artworks from short expressive painting sketches, to longer more detailed pieces. As the weeks progress you will also have the option to paint more of the figure if preferred. The class has the benefit of an experienced model every week as well as tuition from a talented professional artist. After completing this course we recomend joining one of our Portrait Painting Masterclasses to further develop your style.
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Printmaking: Lino Cut Reduction
Course Code: EC2302PR04 Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Tuesdays, 9th January - 6th February Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £185 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Tuesday 19th December 2023 £185.00This popular course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees. You will learn to carve a linoleum plate to develop a series of reduction relief prints in multiple colour combinations. Relief printing focuses on form and texture; you will learn to combine the tone, hue and saturation of multiple colours to achieve an edition of prints on archival Italian paper. There is a maximum of ten students per course guided by one to one tutoring from experienced printmaker.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Printmaking: Multiplate Woodcut
Course Code: EC2302PR14 Tutor: Temsüyanger Longkumer Course Dates: Tuesdays, 20th February - 26th March 2024 Days: 6 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: 205 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Tuesday 30th January 2024 £205.00This popular course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees. Students will be carving Japanese plywood plates to create a multi-plate print edition. Relief printing focuses on form and texture; you will learn to combine the tone, hue and saturation of multiple colours to achieve an edition of prints on archival Italian paper. The course fee covers all materials needed. There is a maximum of ten students per course guided by one to one tutoring from an experienced printmaker.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Sculpting in Metal
Course Code: EC2302034 Tutor: Nathan Murphy, 23rd January: Julian Wild Days: 5 Course Dates: Tuesdays, 9th January - 6th February 2024 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £195 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Tuesday 19th December 2023 £195.00This course explores the various practical processes involved in making metal sculptures. An excellent opportunity to work on an individual project in a workshop with an experienced tutor. You will receive tailored guidance from your tutor, theoretical and technical assistance throughout the duration of the course. The course will equip you with the required knowledge, practical skills, and Health and Safety guidance to work with welders, angle grinders and other specialist metal working machinery. You will gain the skills to develop your own sculpture, or series of sculptures within your practice, and receive individual feedback on your work from the tutor.
Open to students who have no experience in metalwork, as well as those who wish to refine their skill set.
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Sketching Perspective – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302041 Tutor: Illugi Eysteinsson Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 8th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 8.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £150 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £150.00From the innovator, Brunelleschi to the master of illusion, Escher, perspective – one’s point of view – can be argued as the most fundamental principle of sketching. This new course focuses on the importance of perspective and spatial perception as the basis of realism, helping you develop and learn the laws of geometry to create form, dimension, distance and space within your works.
With a focus on producing quick freehand sketches of buildings, rooms, furniture, and stairs, using plans, elevation, and axonometric drawings, master both one and two-point perspective techniques. This course is suitable for all levels, those experienced artists who are looking to strengthen their fundamentals of drawing, as well as beginners.
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Women Artists from 1900 to 1950 – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH04 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 19th February - 18th March 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Monday 29th January 2024 £115.00The restrictions female practitioners had historically faced in their art training, were by the Twentieth Century becoming more relaxed. Women now rightly took their place alongside their male peers, forming radical new styles and were frequently at the forefront of artistic developments. Both socially and culturally, the role of the female artist changed to such an extent that they were integral to the organisation of avant-garde events and establishing groups. This attitude was not confined to France, indeed other centres were often more progressive towards the inclusion and support of women artists in a male dominated system. We will look at practitioners from Europe and the US, focussing on the first half of the 20th Century, a period of great change for women and see how collectively, these practitioners changed the role of the artist and the course of art history.