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Abstract Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104041 Tutor: Eleanor Bedlow Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £210 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £210.00This seven-week course is an introduction to abstract painting by artist Beñat Olaberria, who has studied at The Art Academy of Art and at City & Guilds of London Art School. The course‘s emphasis is on both the discussion and the practical aspects; making us question our aesthetic attractions and our decision making. You will look at working with colour and texture and culminate your course in an own self-directed painting.
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Creative Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104004 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This is an exciting course that will stimulate your creativity and teach you how to use 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 enjoying exploring the medium of paint’s full 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 covers basic painting techniques such as line, tone, understanding colour as well as the application of paint. It also explores more expressive methods through simple exercises focusing on composition, abstraction and working with the figure. You will spend time in the last few weeks developing a finished painting, using techniques you have developed over the duration of the course.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104014 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 5.45pm - 7.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £180.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104114 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 7.45pm – 9.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £180.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104214 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 30th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104314 Tutor: Eleanor Bedlow Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104414 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Etching: Aquatint, Sugarlift and Spit-bite
Course Code: EC2104PR13 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th August - 1st September 2022 Days: 4 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £145 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £145.00This popular four-week course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees. You’ll concentrate on aquatint (tonal etching) in its various forms. You’ll develop a composition through line and tone by multi-etching a zinc plate in a mordant of saline sulphate.This course is flexible, allowing you to work at your own speed – and if you’ve attended this course before, you can work on your own individual etching projects. The course fee covers materials including two zinc etching plates.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Etching: Hard Ground and Soft Ground
Course Code: EC2104PR03 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 4th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £145 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £145.00Etching Hardground and Softground. This popular four-week course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees.You’ll concentrate on hard-ground (fine line) combined with soft-ground (texture) in its various forms. You’ll develop a composition through multi-etching a zinc plate in a mordant of saline sulphate. This course is flexible, allowing you to work at your own speed – and if you’ve attended this course before, you can work on your own individual etching projects. The course fee covers materials including two polished zinc etching plates.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Figure and Portrait Sculpture
Course Code: EC2104005 Tutor: Anthony Waters, Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £250 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £250.00If you are interested in learning to sculpt the human figure then this is an ideal class for you. You have the opportunity to explore both the full figure and a portrait head sculpture with a different model for each. You will model in clay for 8 weeks: 4 weeks of Figure Sculpture from a set pose and 4 weeks of Portrait Head Sculpture from a different model. You will get a flavour of the challenges and thrills of both of these disciplines.
We would recommend this course to students who want to concentrate on learning the basics of Portrait and Figure sculpting. As well as the practice and development of working in clay from a model, also covered are measuring skills, observational skills and preparation of a piece for firing. Optional hollowing and firing of the clay sculptures are an additional cost.
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Hand Built Ceramics
Course Code: EC2104047 Tutor: Annette Bugansky Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £220 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £220.00This exciting course will introduce you to the methods and creative potential of ceramics surface decoration. Using your own handmade clay tiles and mosaics you will be able to develop your own visual language alongside important skills. You will be taught mark making techniques to apply colours and patterns to the surface of your work while also being encouraged to experiment and develop your creative ideas. As we work through the course you will begin to understand the materials you are using and put a stronger emphasis on experimentation. As a result you will be able to achieve beautiful and unique effects on your ceramic pieces!
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Intermediate Drawing
Course Code: EC2104036 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This course is designed for students who have either completed our ‘Drawing for Beginners 1’ and ‘Drawing for Beginners 2’ courses or already have some experience of drawing, and want to take their skills to the next level. Over the course, students will explore drawing from observation, memory and imagination, thereby developing a deeper understanding of drawing and greatly enhancing drawing skills. Each week we focus on a particular aspect of drawing. Starting with measurement and explore this in different contexts, so that students will gain confidence in drawing a wide variety of subjects including still life, life models, and urban landscape. Through trying different approaches and materials, students will begin to develop a ‘visual vocabulary’ of drawing. There will be opportunities to work both, inside and outside the studio, and in museums and galleries.
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Intermediate Painting
Course Code: EC2104038 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 30th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This is an exciting course, which aims to help you discover what it is about painting that really inspires you. It is a great follow-on course from our ‘Painting for Beginners’ or ‘Creative Painting for Beginners’ and will also suit you if you already have some basic experience of painting and want to take your skills to the next level. The course begins by developing your core painting skills, exploring line, tone, colour and mass, whilst continually pushing your creative expression. The tutor will lead you to draw inspiration from many other artist’s work and will guide you step by step through the stages of developing your own painting. They will help you engage with the subject matters and styles that excite you and assist you in bringing them into your own artworks. By looking at a broad variety of techniques, materials and styles, the course aims to broaden your ability to express yourself in paint.
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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: EC2104037 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 30th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00A 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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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: SAT2104037 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Saturdays, 9th July - 27th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 10.15am - 12.45pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £240.00A 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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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: EC2104137 Tutor: Mercedes Balle Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00A 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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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: EC2104237 Tutor: Mercedes Balle Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00A 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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Introduction to Sculpture
Course Code: EC2104003 Tutor: Farnoush Aminimoghadam, Marian Rowling Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £240.00An ideal start point for those wishing to explore sculpture techniques and ideas. This course covers both foundation technical skills and a creative exploration of different materials and ways of working. Sculpture is wonderfully fun and creative and with some simple skills taught, great results can be achieved. The first half of the term comprises three weeks of figurative sculpture in clay with a life model and two weeks of portraiture with another life model, also in clay. The second half of the term is an introduction to plaster, wire and other materials, culminating in a personal project. Students leave the course with a strong foundation of sculpture skills as well as an individual approach to the practice.
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Life Drawing
Course Code: EC2104009 Tutor: Rebecca Glover Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 30th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £255 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £255.00Understanding the structure of the human figure and the way it is situated within a space is an essential skill for anyone keen to develop their drawing and observational skills. Each week you will have a different theme to explore, working from the life model with guidance from our highly experienced tutor. With an encouraging focus exploring your own approach to drawing, you will work through a series of exercises, using a wide range of materials including charcoal and graphite. This course teaches skills and expressive drawing in a unique way to develop your drawing most effectively, and is suitable for more advanced drawers as well as beginners.
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Monday Mix
Course Code: EC2104015 Tutor: Annabel MacIver, Jackie Smith, Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £230 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £230.00This course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learning new artistic skills, discovering what you enjoy most, and developing creative ideas. Over the seven weeks, students work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Throughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, along with more expressive sculpture and painting. Students will also learn to approach the human figure through drawing, painting and sculpture, before rounding off the course with an introduction to printmaking. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials, and have fun.
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Monday Mix
Course Code: EC2104115 Tutor: Mercedes Balle, Annabel MacIver, Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £230 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £230.00This course is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learning new artistic skills, discovering what you enjoy most, and developing creative ideas. Over the seven weeks, students work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Throughout the course, students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills, along with more expressive sculpture and painting. Students will also learn to approach the human figure through drawing, painting and sculpture, before rounding off the course with an introduction to printmaking. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials, and have fun.
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Open Life – Saturday
Course Code: SAT2104001 Tutor: Thomas Golunski, Various tutors Course Dates: Saturday, 9th July - 27th August 2022, NO CLASS ON 13TH AUGUST Days: 8 Times: 10.30am – 1.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £210 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £210.00The “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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Outdoor Creative Painting
Course Code: EC2104024 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR, Various locations £240.00As well as being very informative, this course is great fun and offers the fantastic opportunity to paint in and around the landscape of London Bridge. The Art Academy is just a short stroll from all sorts of exciting locations that could become a focus of a painting; the Thames, the Tate, Borough Market, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s, the shard, building sites and lots of small gardens. The majority of this course will be based outdoors painting on site, although there will be a studio available for use if the weather prevents us from working outdoors. You will learn techniques of tone, colour, atmosphere, composition, perspective, as well as how to be organised and efficient with materials when working out and about. The course culminates in the studio developing a more ambitious painting working from sketches or photos.
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Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104013 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 30th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This is a well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or want to reassess their approach to painting. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate all these elements together in compositions. This course aims to foster self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating environment. Working through a series of exercises you will gain experience and skills in painting still life, self portrait and the interior. Whilst also exploring a more creative approach to painting, helping you establish your own style and identity. This course is a fun and relaxing experience, offering plenty of guidance from the tutor.
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Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2104113 Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £240 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £240.00This is a well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or want to reassess their approach to painting. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate all these elements together in compositions. This course aims to foster self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating environment. Working through a series of exercises you will gain experience and skills in painting still life, self portrait and the interior. Whilst also exploring a more creative approach to painting, helping you establish your own style and identity. This course is a fun and relaxing experience, offering plenty of guidance from the tutor.
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Portrait Painting
Course Code: EC2104018 Tutor: Andrew Hitchcock Course Dates: Mondays, 11th July - 22nd August 2022 Days: 7 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £225 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £225.00This 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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Portrait Painting
Course Code: EC2104118 Tutor: Carl Randall Course Dates: Thursdays, 14th July - 1st September 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £260 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £260.00This 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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Relief Printing: Linoleum Reduction
Course Code: EC2104PR04 Tutor: Temsüyanger Longkumer Course Dates: Tuesdays, 12th July - 2nd August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £145 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £145.00This popular course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees. You will learn to carve a linoleum plate to develop a series of reduction relief prints in multiple colour combinations. Relief printing focuses on form and texture; you will learn to combine the tone, hue and saturation of multiple colours to achieve an edition of prints on archival Italian paper. There is a maximum of ten students per course guided by one to one tutoring from experienced printmaker.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Relief Printing: Multiplate Woodcut
Course Code: EC2104PR14 Tutor: Carol Wilhide Justin Course Dates: Tuesdays, 9th - 30th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £145 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £145.00This popular course is ideal for beginners or repeat attendees. In Relief Printmaking Part 2, students will be carving Japanese plywood plates to create a multi-plate print edition. Relief printing focuses on form and texture; you will learn to combine the tone, hue and saturation of multiple colours to achieve an edition of prints on archival Italian paper. The course fee covers all materials needed. There is a maximum of ten students per course guided by one to one tutoring from an experienced printmaker.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaking artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London.
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Saturday Mix
Course Code: SAT2104015 Tutor: Various tutors Course Dates: Saturdays, 30th July - 20th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 2.00pm - 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £165 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £165.00This stimulating and exciting course is taking place over 4 consecutive Sunday mornings and is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learn new skills, discover what you enjoy most, and develop creative ideas. Students will work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills; try out more expressive sculpture and painting, and learn how to approach the human figure, using a variety of materials and methods. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials and have fun.
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Stone Carving
Course Code: EC2104010 Tutor: Ben Newman Course Dates: Wednesdays, 13th July - 31st August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £240 (without stone) Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £240.00Primarily a practical course, you will gain a structured understanding of stone as a material, learn basic carving techniques and discover ways of being creative with this wonderful medium. Through practising all of these aspects, they will come together in the creation of your finished piece of work. Using your initial sketches of what you would like to carve (plan view, front view and section) to help understand the form before modelling it in clay, followed by one-to-one discussion, you will then quickly move into carving to progress your ideas into stone.
Please note that there is an additional fee for initial purchase of stone, which varies depending on the type of stone you wish to use. Art Academy staff are able to advise ahead of booking.
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Sunday Mix
Course Code: SUN2104015 Tutor: Various tutors Course Dates: Sundays, 10th July - 31st July 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.30am - 1.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £165 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £165.00This stimulating and exciting course is taking place over 4 consecutive Sunday mornings and is an ideal way to explore a wide variety of artistic methods and media, learn new skills, discover what you enjoy most, and develop creative ideas. Students will work across the different disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Students will have a chance to improve observational drawing skills; try out more expressive sculpture and painting, and learn how to approach the human figure, using a variety of materials and methods. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, explore materials and have fun.