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Abstraction I

Course Code: E2301P002 Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Fridays: 22nd September to 1st December 2023 Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £630 From: £630.00

This course is for both figurative and abstract artists. You’ll be introduced to the principles of abstract art and the connection between representational art and abstraction.

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portrait of nude woman on bed with woman holding flowers

Sadie Lee

Contemporary Painting: Responding to Images of the Body

Course Code: E2301P016 Tutor: Sadie Lee Course Dates: Wednesdays: 20th September to 29th November Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: Advanced, Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced Fee: £630 From: £630.00

Using a range of contemporary source material, such as digital images, the moving image and images from social media, you’ll consider and explore the representation of the contemporary body in painting.

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Creative Painting for Beginners

Course Code: EC2204004 Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Wednesdays 5th July - 23rd August Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £250 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £250.00

This 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.

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Alison Hand

Expanded Painting

Course Code: E2301P019 Tutor: Alison Hand Course Dates: Wednesdays: 20th September to 29th November Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £630 + £22 materials fee From: £630.00

Expanded painting moves out beyond the easel and the physical limitations of the image to investigate how far painting can go in spatial and temporal dimensions.

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Neil Morley

Historical Painting in a Contemporary Context

Course Code: E2301P020 Tutor: Neil Morley Course Dates: Thursdays: 21st September to 30th November Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £630 From: £630.00

This course is ideal for those wishing to expand their knowledge of the history of painting by exploring the ideas and techniques in historical art movements within a contemporary context.

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Nicholas McLeod

Introduction to Oil Painting

Course Code: E2301P001 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Thursdays: 21st September to 30th November Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £630 + £7 materials fee From: £630.00

This course is suitable for those who have little or no experience with oils and wish to improve their technical skills with students gaining a basic understanding of how to work in oil paint and the practicalities of using oil painting materials.

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