The Art Club
The Art Club
Autumn Term
September 22nd to December 12th
Half Term Break: October 13th to 24th
Expressive Landscapes
Mondays 10am-12pm
with Hayley Whittingham
Explore colour, texture, and composition to bring landscapes to life in an expressive style. Studying inspiring contemporary artists, students will learn how to see the landscape in an individual way. With demonstrations of various media and techniques, students will create a range of studies, culminating in a two-three week final, personal piece.
Contemporary Still Life
Mondays 7pm-9pm
with Annabel Pattison
Develop observational skills and experiment with modern approaches to still life. Bold use of colour and brush strokes will be used to interpret simple still life set ups, creating strong individual paintings of every day objects. A refreshing approach to immortalising familiar, contemporary obects. Demonstrations and full support throughout.
Expressive Land & Seascapes
Tuesdays 10am-12pm
with Hayley Whittingham
Capture the movement and atmosphere of the land and sea through creating studies of scapes by both classical and contemporary artists. Learn how to create translucent or crashing waves or the layered landscapes and vistas of the countryside. The course will end with a final developed piece inspired by your own favourite places.
Expressive Landscapes
Tuesdays 7pm-9pm
with Ursula Bevan-Hunter
Explore colour, texture, and composition to bring landscapes to life in an expressive style. Studying inspiring contemporary artists, students will learn how to see the landscape in an individual way. With demonstrations of various media and techniques, students will create a range of studies, culminating in a two-three week final, personal piece.
Drawing & Painting Developers
Wednesdays 10am-12pm
with Bethany Williams
Take your basic knowledge further and develop your skills with our clear, progressive tutoring. Various subjects from natural forms to contemporary objects will be explored to develop understanding of colour and form. Course is also suitable for beginners as basics will be revisited.
Drawing & Painting Developers
Wednesdays 7pm-9pm
with Kristel Bodenseik
Take your basic knowledge further and develop your skills with our clear, progressive tutoring. Various subjects from natural forms to contemporary objects will be explored to develop understanding of colour and form. Course is also suitable for beginners as basics will be revisited.
Contemporary Portraits
Thursdays 10am-12pm
with Leigh Roberts
Learn how to understand the essential elements of portraiture such as proportion, skin tones and contrast. Each class will give full demonstrations and instruction.
Students will then apply these techniques to their final study of a personal portrait in a contemporary style.
Full guidance given throughout.
Citysketching
Thursdays 7pm-9pm
with Bethany Williams
Students will be taught the basics of perspective, scale and undertsanding how to draw architecture urban objects. Line drawing and loose washes will be used to capture city scenes and interiors. This class will involve three outings to various city. venues to practice techniques in real sketching conditions, giving students the confidence to sketch effectively outdoors.
Watercolour Development
Fridays 10am-12pm
with Leigh Roberts
In this course we will briefly revisit essentials, then progress to layering using watercolour inks and other media. The focus will be on loose brush strokes and dramatic application of colour to both foliage studies and larger landscape/ seascape images.
Use of organic tools for application of paint plus colour pigments are incuded in this exploratory course.
