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Drawing in Museums
Course Code: WC2301040 Tutor: Natasha Lien Course Dates: Saturdays, 23rd September - 21st October 2023 Days: 5 Times: 2.00pm – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £200 Location: Various locations From: £200.00This 5 week course is a wonderfully relaxing way to start the weekend and develop drawing and creative skills both for beginners and more advanced students. The course is suitable for all skill levels and is designed to enable students to express a creative response to museum artworks, as well as develop an understanding of how artworks are put together to create particular impressions upon the viewer. The class will visit a different museum or gallery each week and students will draw from sculpture and painting across all genres. Students will learn fundamental observational skills such structural drawing, measuring, tone and basic perspective, as well as develop an understanding of how artworks are put together to create particular impressions upon the viewer.
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Hand Built Ceramics
Course Code: SAT2301047 Tutor: Adele Williams Course Dates: Saturdays, 7th October - 16th December 2023 Days: 11 Times: 10.30am - 1pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £340 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £340.00This 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. In the run up to Christmas you will also be able to create your own Christmas gifts and 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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Lino Etching Weekend
Course Code: WC2301PR71 Tutor: Stella Yarrow Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 14th - 15th October 2023 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £185 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £185.00This 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.
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Mokulito Wood Lithography with Kate Desforges
Course Code: WC2301PR88 Tutor: Kate Desforges Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday 4th - 5th November 2023 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £185 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £185.00Plywood lithography takes the basic principles of lithography and applies them to a prepared plywood surface. Traditional lithographic drawing materials are used to draw and paint onto the plywood surface. The drawing is then processed using gum arabic, and the block is inked up and printed using the etching press. Because of the coarser nature of wood in comparison to stone or metal plate, fine detail cannot always be retained, so this process would suit those who have a more experimental approach to image-making, embracing and working with the natural properties of the wood.
This course will explore the creative possibilities of this unique printmaking process. The grain of the wood will often show up in the background of prints, and becomes stronger with each subsequent print – ‘filling in’ until white becomes black and the block is no longer useable. Kate will guide you through this fascinating technique with a hands-on, experimental approach, providing examples, instruction and advice throughout. The aim of the course is to gain a good understanding of the process and to create a small run of prints from your own plywood block, and to give you the confidence to carry on using the technique in your own practice. This course would suit those with a little previous experience of lithography, relief printing or intaglio, however this is not essential and beginners are also welcome. -
Open Life – Sunday
Course Code: SUN2301001 Tutor: Mercedes Balle Course Dates: Sundays, 24th September - 9th December 2023 Days: 11 Times: 10.30am – 1.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £330 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £330.00The “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.
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Photopolymer Etching
Course Code: WC2301PR08 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 21st - 22nd October 2023 Days: 2 Times: 10am - 5pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £185 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £185.00During this short course, you will learn to master an innovative printmaking technique which bridges the gaps between photography, drawing and printmaking – exposing hand-drawn and/or digital positives to photosensitive plates. You will develop a series of photopolymer etching plates throughout the weekend. Guided by one-to-one tutoring from Frederic Morris. The intaglio prints exhibit rich velvet blacks with a wide and continuous tonal range, sensitive to the original expression of the artist. -
Portrait Painting
Course Code: SAT2301018 Tutor: Andrew Hitchcock Course Dates: Saturdays, 23rd September - 9th December 2023 Days: 11 Times: 2.00pm – 4.30pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £355 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £355.00This 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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Sculpture Masterclass – Half Scale Torso
Course Code: WC2301053 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 4th - 5th November 2023 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Advanced Fee: £210 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £210.00This is an intensive 2 days working with a life model on a half scale torso sculpture.We will be measuring the model in a very precise way, up close,using calipers, plumb lines and scaling rulers. This is an opportunity for students with previous experience of working from life in clay to build on their clay modelling and observational skills. It’s also an opportunity to learn about surface anatomy and the skeleton. -
Sunday Painting Workshop
Course Code: SUN2301101 Tutor: Mercedes Balle Course Dates: Sundays, 24th September - 10th December 2023 Days: 11 Times: 2.00pm – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £330 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £330.00Stuck in a rut with your own practice? Looking for some inspiration and clarity to switch up your approach? This brand new painting course is practical and self-led which will raise your art to the next level. The course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself in your own work while gaining valuable insight to help grow and push your practice.
Dissect your own approach to painting with Tommy Golunski as he assists you through practical exercises, sharing art historical references, and generously advising based on his own extensive experience as a painter. Work on ongoing projects, bring new references or create something new, the surgery is what you make it.
Please be aware that there will be no class on 30th October.
You can also attend this class as a drop-in and pay £30 per session via our Eventbrite page.