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Experimental Etching
Course Code: WC2204PR99 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 8th - 9th July Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £180.00Explore a more painterly side of etching. Students will depart from tradition to develop a series of zinc plates etched in saline sulphate by experimenting with the alchemy of the intaglio process; brushing, splashing, dripping, blowing and smudging to produce fascinating and unique prints. Attendees will be introduced to a variety of novel etching and printing techniques including painterly spit-bite aquatint.
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Figure Painting Masterclass with Charles Pickard
Course Code: WC2204051 Tutor: Charles Pickard Days: 2 Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 12th & 13th August 2023 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £205 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £205.00In this exciting weekend course, under the tuition of Charlie Pickard, students will tackle the most challenging and important academic subject to master: the human figure. Students will have the opportunity to study a model from life for a 2-day pose, allowing enough time to thoroughly observe the nuances of form and colour, by painting the model for a total of six hours per day. Critiques will be focused on achieving a high level of academic accuracy, building a strong foundation that will aid in all further artwork. Charlie Pickard will also demonstrate a painting alongside students, using a direct painting method.
This is an intermediate/ advanced level course and previous painting experience is required.
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Lino Etching Weekend
Course Code: WC2204PR71 Tutor: Stella Yarrow Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 5th - 6th August Days: 2 Times: 10am - 5pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £205 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £205.00This course is ideal for attendees keen to further develop their relief printmaking skills. It teaches a more gestural approach to lino, combining the classical skill of carving a lino block with a contemporary approach to etching its surface with caustic soda. Bringing together painterly textures and graphic forms in a colourful multi-block print.
You will learn:
- how to etch lino with a caustic soda solution which allows you to make loose, expressive, painterly marks
- how to combine them with the graphic lines and forms of lino cut
- how to use these contrasts of mark making, together with colour and transparency, in a multi-block print.
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Open Life – Saturday
Course Code: SAT2204001 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Saturdays, 8th July - 26th August Days: 8 Times: 10.30am – 1.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £250 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £250.00The “Open Life Class” is a relaxed and enjoyable life drawing & painting course with a life model for various poses lasting between one and four 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 that they enjoy the most, whether that is drawing in charcoal or ink or painting in oils or acrylics. All 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 £30 per session via our Eventbrite page.