The Art Academy offers an unrivalled selection of art part time courses for individuals who want to develop their skills and ideas.
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STUDY A RANGE OF PART TIME DAY COURSES
The Art Academy offers an unrivalled selection of art part time courses for individuals who want to develop their skills and ideas, whether they have no previous instruction, or are returning to art school to further develop their skills.
Our part time day courses are usually one day a week (10am– 5pm) in term time, lasting from two to ten weeks. We run courses in: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography & video and sculpture. Some have a specialist focus, while others are more broad-based. Students can take one stand-alone course, or a combination. Each course is a component which can be built into a longer-term, progressive programme of study.
Our tutors are professional artists chosen for their expertise in each area of study. With class numbers kept to a maximum of 15, the tutor has plenty of time to give individual and detailed attention to each student.
Material packs can be purchased with some of our courses. Please check the details of the individual class. You can also buy an Acrylic Painting, Oil Painting or Drawing Pack individually on our Materials Page.
Please note, our courses are only suitable and available for students 18 years old and above. We have a variety of courses specifically designed for under 18’s as part of our Young Artists programme.
If you have any queries regarding part time courses please contact our academic team on 0207 407 6969 or academiccourses@artacademy.org.uk.
We currently do not have any of these courses available. If you wish to be kept up to date with when these courses are announced please subscribe to our Newsletter below. Alternatively you can browse our website for alternative courses.
MONDAY
| Name | Course Dates | Days | Fee | Availability | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstraction II | Mondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Composition with Portrait & the Figure | Mondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Cultural Inspirations for Painting the Figure | Mondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Photopolymer and Photo-etching | Mondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| The Body in Contemporary Sculpture | Mondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
TUESDAY
| Name | Course Dates | Days | Fee | Availability | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Nude Figure Painting | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Sold Out | Show details |
| Bookbinding with Relief Print | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Moving Image & Modes of Display | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Painting in Practice | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Portrait Drawing | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Sculpture in Practice | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Self Portrait | Tuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Sold Out | Show details |
THURSDAY
| Name | Course Dates | Days | Fee | Availability | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary painting - space, architecture, environment. | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Sold Out | Show details |
| Digital in Practice | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Exploring Watercolour & Ink | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Kinetic Sculpture | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Printmaking in Practice | Thursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
FRIDAY
| Name | Course Dates | Days | Fee | Availability | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | Fridays, 17th April - 19th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Figure & Portrait in Oil | Fridays, 17th April - 19th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Luminosity | Fridays, 17th April - 19th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Materials & Mark Making | Fridays, 17th April - 19th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
SATURDAY
| Name | Course Dates | Days | Fee | Availability | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait & Figure Painting | Saturdays, 18th April - 20th June 2020 | 10 | £500 | Places Available! | Show details |
| Exploring Current Trends & Styles in Portrait Painting | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Textiles, Sculptural Textiles, Latex | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO SOLD OUT |
| Drawing into Printmaking | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Moving Image & Modes of Display | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Shape of Colour | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO SOLD OUT |
| Advanced Expressive Portrait Painting | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| How to Paint Portraits Successfully from Photographs | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO SOLD OUT |
| PAINT: Mixed Media, Surface, Process & Abstraction | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Painting in Practice | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Dynamic Figure | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Reduction Relief: Linocut & Woodcut | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Developing Figure Painting | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Images & Pictorial Space | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Techniques of Figure Sculpture | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Etching: Spitbite, Sugarlift & White Ground | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| The Photographic Image | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Anatomy | START DATE 18/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Imaginative Composition | START DATE 18/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Portrait & Figure Painting | START DATE 19/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
MONDAY
| Exploring Current Trends & Styles in Portrait Painting | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Textiles, Sculptural Textiles, Latex | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Drawing into Printmaking | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Moving Image & Modes of Display | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Shape of Colour | START DATE 14/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO SOLD OUT |
| Advanced Expressive Portrait Painting | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| How to Paint Portraits Successfully from Photographs | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| PAINT: Mixed Media, Surface, Process & Abstraction | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Painting in Practice | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Dynamic Figure | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Reduction Relief: Linocut & Woodcut | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Developing Figure Painting | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Images & Pictorial Space | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Techniques of Figure Sculpture | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Etching: Spitbite, Sugarlift & White Ground | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| The Photographic Image | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Anatomy | START DATE 18/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Imaginative Composition | START DATE 18/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Portrait & Figure Painting | START DATE 19/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
TUESDAY
| Advanced Expressive Portrait Painting | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| How to Paint Portraits Successfully from Photographs | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| PAINT: Mixed Media, Surface, Process & Abstraction | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Painting in Practice | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Dynamic Figure | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Reduction Relief: Linocut & Woodcut | START DATE 15/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
THURSDAY
| Developing Figure Painting | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Images & Pictorial Space | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Techniques of Figure Sculpture | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| Etching: Spitbite, Sugarlift & White Ground | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
| The Photographic Image | START DATE 17/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
| Portrait & Figure Painting | START DATE 19/01/2019 | DAYS 10 | FEE £500 | MORE INFO HERE |
MONDAY
Abstraction IIFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P10TutorMagdalena BlasinskaCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500Material Costs£20 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This course will help you develop a greater understanding of abstract painting. You will look at technical and methodical approaches to painting in a very broad sense, but also critically consider abstraction and abstract painting. You’ll develop a visual and verbal vocabulary allowing you to talk about your own work with more confidence and potentially develop areas for further exploration.
Composition with Portrait & the FigureFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P19TutorCarl RandallCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500Explore approaches to compositions featuring portraits and figures, with a focus on the figure within space. You’ll be able to develop skills in figure painting and will gain a broad and varied understanding of figurative painting, portraiture, design and composition, monotone and colour painting techniques and the use of acrylic and oil paint.
Cultural Inspirations for Painting the FigureFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P52TutorSadie Lee, Susanne du ToitCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500This is an opportunity to think more carefully about the context within which you paint a portrait and your intentions for your painting. You'll consider how you might work with a model in creating paintings, using wider cultural references to bring a different layer of meaning to the works you produce. Throughout the course, you’ll work with access to a model and an expert portrait and figure painter. Drawing inspiration from art movements, other artists, theatre and film, literature, or your own ideas, you'll establish a series of scenes or poses and use these as the basis for your paintings.
Photopolymer and Photo-etching£500.00Course CodeE1903PR01TutorFrederic MorrisCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This course focuses on photomechanical techniques in printmaking, combining photosensitive emulsion and plates with intaglio printing. You will learn to expose and develop autographic (drawn and painted) and digitally generated/photographic images with both different types of plates. Throughout the course we will be talking through your ideas gaining the understanding of your individual creative process in order to maximise your ability to produce more technically advanced and developed artwork. During the second half of the course you will plan a self-led project using both technical and conceptual ideas to produce a small finished print edition.
The Body in Contemporary Sculpture£500.00Course CodeE1903S21TutorBriony Marshall, Guest tutorsCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£15 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This is a new course exploring the use of the body in contemporary sculpture. The first half of the term will introduce different approaches and techniques for working with the body in three dimensions. Invited contemporary artists will run a series of workshops exploring how they work with the figure, from the political powerful work of Tim Shaw (RA), to Liane Lang’s subversion of classical male figures sculpture through the inclusion of feminine body fragments. Katherine Gili will run a workshop sculpting the figure in paper to intimate how she works in steel and emerging artist Zachary Eastwood-Bloom will introduce digital techniques. In the second half of the term you will develop your own focus of exploration and a final piece or series of pieces.
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Advanced Nude Figure PaintingSold OutCourse CodeE1903P80TutorGiles Lester, James BlandCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£500This is a great opportunity for you to work closely with established artists, focusing on different approaches to painting the figure. You'll explore alternatives to figure painting, employing other unique methods. You'll also learn how to approach the nude figure to make an interesting painting, rather than just a life painting from the model. You’ll relate the model to their surroundings, looking at light and tone and the various merits of different techniques and painting styles.
Bookbinding with Relief Print£500.00Course CodeE1903PR006TutorCarol Wilhide JustinCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This is an exciting opportunity to learn about different book structures and binding techniques, while incorporating reduction linocut and multi-plate woodcut prints. You’ll learn how to use basic booking tools to create leporello (concertina), stab-binding and single-section binding book structures, and gain a contextual understanding with a visit to Tate Britain’s Artist Book Collection.
Moving Image & Modes of Display£500.00Course CodeE1903T001TutorLouise O’ConnorCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500This course is a great way to further develop your interests and visual language through time- based media. It will give you the critical and technical guidance needed to concisely communicate your ideas through your work. The course starts with thematic sessions, before allowing you to focus on developing your own work in a chosen location, considering how site could affect and inform the work. with individual support from your tutor. Throughout you will be encouraged to consider how different modes of display can be interpreted and in turn how they can be exploited, how contemporary culture and our familiarity with the “screen” could affect the presentation, production and content of video.
Painting in PracticeFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P50TutorGavin MaughflingCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500This course will help you discover what it is about painting that motivates and inspires you. You will explore how to develop ideas from initial sketches, how to refine ideas and how to develop coherent work. You will be encouraged to adopt a disciplined creative thinking dialogue in your painting practice, which will enable a more informed approach to your work.
Portrait DrawingFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903DR003TutorDavid Caldwell, Francesca Corra, Susanne du ToitCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500A focused course which will develop your drawing skills of the head; aspects such as facial proportion, structure of the skull and facial anatomy. Working weekly from life models, the course will also include anatomical drawing of the skull to develop an in depth understanding of the underlying structure and forms of the head. The course will culminate in a sustained three week portrait drawing to end the course. You will use different materials including charcoal, graphite, conte, etc., throughout the course.
Sculpture in Practice£500.00Course CodeE1903S50TutorLara Ritosa RobertsCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£15 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)Explore a wide range of sculptural forms, language, materials and processes with this course. Throughout, your tutor will provide individual support to help develop your own approach – whether you want to explore a variety of materials and techniques, or focus on a particular area of interest. If you wish to explore materials, or are unsure about which materials to use for your ideas, there is a core course. This core course follows a number of structured exercises that enable you to experiment with different materials and processes. You will be encouraged to develop ideas through the introduction of a wide vocabulary of materials and processes that could inform figurative, abstract or concept led work. However, you do not have to follow the core course and can work on your own projects in this class.
Self PortraitSold OutCourse CodeE1903P27TutorRoxana HallsCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£500This course explores painting using ourselves as subject matter, from direct observation, photography or other mediums. You'll generate images by examining different aspects of yourself; through ideas of identity, gender, social and familial connections, memories, aspirations and even through the use of costume and allusion. You'll start with the technical aspects of painting, looking at the complications that arise and possible solutions, from which you can begin to adopt approaches that best suit you.
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Contemporary painting – space, architecture, environment.Sold OutCourse CodeE1903P018TutorAlison HandCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£5 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This new course explores how painting can describe and interact with the language of architecture, environment, and space. The course introduces diverse painting approaches and surfaces, and covers a range of themes including working from moving images; 3 dimensional and site specific painting; city edges and borders. Drawing on a range of source material from film and photography to sketching and study trips, we will build an exciting new painting vocabulary. Each idea will be contextualised with contemporary painters and key theorists, thereby broadening your knowledge. You will be able to use the processes and approaches taught to address their individual thematic concerns as you move through the course. Additionally, you will develop your own ambitious project in the last 3 weeks of the course, which may be a large-scale work, a series of smaller works, or a site-specific painting project. These will be exhibited on the last afternoon of the course in the studio (or off-site if relevant), for discussion and others to come and view.
Kim WhitbyExploring Watercolour & InkFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P36TutorKim WhitbyCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500This course aims to introduce students to the water-based mediums of watercolour and ink. Both indoors and outdoors, you will work responsively, exploring the particular qualities of these mediums and learning to use them in combination with drawing, to collect and record findings in a sketchbook and developing your learning into finished artworks in the studio or outdoors if appropriate.
Kinetic Sculpture£500.00Course CodeE1903S52TutorAphra Shemza, TBCCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£20 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This course is a thorough introduction to the language of sculpture and will enable you to investigate the use of form, space, texture, colour and other core sculptural elements. It will encourage the sophisticated use of basic sculpture materials and techniques, including clay, wax, plaster, wire, latex, textiles and found objects, as well as working from a model. The course will push you to experiment and broaden your repertoire and start to discover your own sculptural language.
Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture£500.00Course CodeE1903S07TutorJulian WildCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£8 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)An exciting and unusual opportunity for those wishing to work sculpturally with clay on a larger scale, up to the dimensions of the kiln, without an inner armature structure. This course aims to introduce both beginners and advanced students to the wonders of using clay as a sculptural material; a chance to explore a range of hand-building techniques to create a larger scale sculpture. Coiling, slabbing, hand-building, hollowing and press-moulding techniques will be used in conjunction with surface finishes such as oxides, slips and glazes. These processes will be demonstrated week by week, enabling you to develop your own project piece. This could be figurative, abstract or conceptual, depending on the your interests. As the intent of this course is to produce larger scale work, there will be an additional firing fee that needs to be accommodated. Specific clays will be used, that enable working sculpturally and on a large scale. These can be purchased from the Academy. You may also need to independently purchase specific slips and glazes.
Printmaking in Practice£500.00Course CodeE1903PR08TutorKatherine JonesCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500Material Costs£40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This course is aimed at students who are near to completing the BA/FD or Certificate programme, or recent graduates who want to continue their studies in a supported but more self-directed environment. It meets an identified demand from students who have already undertaken a number of other print courses to continue to receive a high level of technical tutoring without having to repeat skills courses they have already completed. Each student therefore proposes their own 10 week project. A maximum of ten students are in each class, individually tutored by Katherine Jones. Projects may be research based, including investigating colour printing techniques or subject based, e.g. developing a single edition or a series of prints based on a particular theme. The tutor will respond to your ideas and develop a programme of study tailored to your needs. They will work with you to overcome technical challenges and provide friendly constructive feedback throughout. The aim is to enable students to produce a sustained major project which helps develop their individual artistic practice.
