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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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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: 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
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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Susanne du ToitPainting: Cultural Inspirations within Figurative Painting
Course Code: E2302P52 Tutor: Susanne du Toit Course Dates: Mondays: 8th January to 18th March 2024 Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £630 From: £630.00Drawing inspiration from art movements, other artists, theatre, film and literature, or your own ideas, you’ll establish a series of scenes or poses and use these as the basis for your paintings.
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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.