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Abstract Painting
Course Code: WC2004038 Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 7th & 8th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £170.00This is a fun, relaxed course offering a structured introduction to abstract painting. You’ll be guided through a number of different approaches, including abstracting images, using geometry, exploring process-based painting and playing with expressive gestural marks. The tutor will lead you through hands-on demonstrations, group discussions of relevant artists’ work, and there will also be plenty of individual guidance. You’ll build your confidence and gain a practical understanding of the fundamentals of painting, including colour, tone, mark-making and composition. You’ll then have the opportunity to complete a larger abstract painting inspired by an artist of your choice. This course is suitable for beginners who have completed an introductory painting course already and are keen to explore painting in an experimental way, as well as more experienced students who would like to develop their understanding of abstraction.
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Abstract Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2004041 Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Thursdays, 12th August - 16th September 2021 Days: 6 Times: 6.15pm - 8.45pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £180.00This six-week course is an introduction to abstract painting by artist Kate Dunn, who has studied at The Florence 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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Abstraction I
Course Code: E2101P002 Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Mondays, 20th September - 29th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course is for both figurative and abstract artists. You’ll be introduced to the principles of abstract art and the connection between representational art and abstraction. You will examine new visual languages, different methods of applying (and removing paint) and learn to hone your compositional eye. You will gain an understanding of how to organise space and colour, how to make more evocative and less literal gestures, and look in more detail at the general terminology and language of abstraction.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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Advanced Clothed Figure Painting
Course Code: E2101P003 Tutor: James Bland Course Dates: Tuesdays, 21st September - 30th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £550 From: £550.00This is an ideal opportunity for you to develop a number of different aspects of painting, including colour mixing, tonal painting, proportion and figure drawing, composition, creating a likeness, developing narrative within work and formal elements of design. You’ll explore how to develop ideas from initial sketches through to creating and refining coherent work.
The class is structured for more advanced students who perhaps have a clearer vision of what they want to achieve. Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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BA (HONS) Fine Art Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00BA (HONS) Fine Art
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Certificate Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00Certificate Programme
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Collagraph Printmaking with Katherine Jones
Course Code: WC2004PR86 Tutor: Katherine Jones Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 7th & 8th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00This 2-day weekend course is suitable for relative beginners but will also benefit those who have attended previous collagraph courses. Collagraph relies on texture to build up plates that can be printed both in intaglio or relief and as a multi-plate print. Guided by Katherine Jones, a renowned British printmaker, you will expand your knowledge to realise a truly accessible and exciting new way of printmaking.
The Art Academy’s printmaking studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated facilities for professional hands-on learning. Students benefit from the diversity of attendees, taught by internationally renowned printmaker artists at a central location, offering a unique educational experience in London. There is a maximum of eight to ten students per course, materials are included and we advise that you book early to avoid disappointment.
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Composition in Contemporary Painting
Course Code: E2101P005 Tutor: Alison Hand Course Dates: Mondays, 20th September - 29th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £550 Material Costs: £5 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00In this course, you’ll investigate how paintings are put together and why, challenging your own assumptions to develop your individual painting practice. This course is not about traditional notions of composition. You will explore four overarching themes: how composition / structure impacts our reading of a painting; painting within a digital age; using multiple viewpoints and perspective to construct space; and paintings that deal with the body within fragmented space. You’ll develop your understanding of these themes both practically through painting, and contextually by looking at relevant contemporary artists.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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Drawing and Painting for Beginners
Course Code: SC2004131 Tutor: Lucy Smallbone Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 9th August - 13th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00This is a structured opportunity to gain fundamental drawing and painting skills, whilst blurring the boundary between drawing and painting by using both wet and dry materials together. Throughout the week, students will be using a limited pallet keeping the focus on tonal painting. By looking at still life, interior/exterior and portrait, students explore various ways of seeing, increasing their understanding and confidence to draw and paint. Topics include linear drawing, tonal drawing, composition, sketching outdoors, expressive drawing/painting, study of natural forms and portrait painting. A fun and intensive course that will leave students with the knowledge and inspiration to start their own artworks. -
Drawing For All
Course Code: WC2004001 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 21st & 22nd August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £170.00A wonderful opportunity for people with all levels of experience to explore and enhance their drawing and life drawing skills. Over this packed weekend, students work through a variety of themes to learn fundamental drawing skills, including measurement, drawing the figure, and tonal drawing. As well as developing observational drawing skills, students are encouraged to be creative and expressive and to try out new approaches such as exploring different drawing materials, and experimenting with line and contrast. This is an intensive, informative, and fun weekend course, which teaches essential drawing skills whilst encouraging a creative approach.
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Drawing for All
Course Code: SC2004009 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 23rd August - 27th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00A wonderful opportunity for people with all levels of experience to explore the skills of drawing and life drawing. Throughout the course you will work to a variety of themes to learn fundamental drawing skills, including composition, tonal drawing, measurement and movement. Once mastered students are encouraged to develop a creative approach interjected with urban sketching, exploration of different lines, contrasts, compositions, materials and techniques. This is a structured informative, yet fun and stimulating, course that teaches essential drawing skills whilst encouraging a creative approach.
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Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: EC2004314 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Wednesdays, 11th August - 8th September 2021 Days: 5 Times: 6.45pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £150 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £150.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each of the 5 sessions will focus on a different theme, providing a range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life and self- portraiture among others, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in one session and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
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Drawing from the Body
Course Code: E2101DR002 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Thursdays, 23rd September - 2nd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course looks at different aspects of working from the figure and provides an introduction to key skills and concepts in drawing. You will first develop fundamental skills in observation and comparative measurement, before moving on to capturing the figure in motion and developing drawings of the figure within space. Throughout the course we will work from both the nude and clothed figure within the studio setting.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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Etching Workshop
Course Code: SC2004PR03 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 16th August - 19th August 2021 Days: 4 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00This course is designed to give a broad yet intensive introduction to etching in all its shades of grey. You will develop a composition through line, texture and tone by etching a zinc plate in a mordant of saline sulphate. This 5 day workshop concentrates on hard-ground (fine line) and soft ground combined with aquatint (tone) in its various forms. The course is flexible in its composition allowing attendees to work at their own speed within the medium. Students may also work on their own individual etching projects.
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Etching: Aquatint, Sugarlift and Spit-bite
Course Code: EC2004PR13 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Thursdays, 26th August - 23rd September 2021 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £180.00This popular five-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 zink etching plates.
Open Access runs on Wednesday evening and Saturday during the day, giving you the opportunity to further develop your printmaking skills. There is a maximum of ten students per course guided by one to one tutoring from Katherine Jones, acclaimed printmaker with over fifteen years printmaking experience.
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: Hardground, Softground and Aquatint
Course Code: E2101PR004 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Thursdays, 23rd September - 2nd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 Material Costs: £40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00This course explores etching with a focus on line, texture and tone; an approach which can be both graphic and painterly, originally utilised by Francesco Goya and still employed by contemporary artists today. Using a low-toxic saline sulphate mordant, you’ll learn to paint with sugar and etch aluminium and zinc plate to realise a series of print editions.
Processes will be demonstrated week by week during the first half of term. Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course
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Experimental Etching
Course Code: WC2004PR99 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 21st & 22nd August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00Explore 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. The course will be guided by one-to-one tuition from Temsuyanger Longkumer.
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Expressive Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with Hazel Reeves
Course Code: WC2004053 Tutor: Hazel Reeves Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 14th & 15th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Intermediate/Advanced Fee: £195 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £195.00This 2-day workshop is an exciting opportunity to work with top portrait artist Hazel Reeves and is for those with a bit more experience with portraiture. It will enable you to focus on getting expression, character, emotion and movement in your sculptures. Using a different model each day, you will have the chance to sculpt in clay a series of smaller heads focusing on ways of bringing the piece to life, using texture, form, tone and the pose/composition. This concentrated modelling will be interspersed with fun exercises – with clay and without – to bring more spontaneity to your work.
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FD (Contemporary Portraiture) Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00FD (Contemporary Portraiture)
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Figure and Portrait Painting with James Bland
Course Code: SC2004006 Tutor: James Bland Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 23rd August - 27th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00A fun and intensive week of life and portrait painting appropriate to all skill levels. Less experienced students will enjoy an introduction to portraiture and figure painting while more advanced students benefit from a refresher in figure work from an experienced artist which will progress their practice. The emphasis will be on learning practical skills as well as bringing out intuitive ability. The course will cover planning a painting and executing a portrait over 2 days, a clothed figure composition and a life figure painting over the remaining 2 days.
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Fine Art Foundation Deposit
£200.00Fine Art Foundation
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Hand Built Ceramics
Course Code: EC2004047 Tutor: Annette Bugansky Course Dates: Mondays, 9th August - 20th September 2021, NO TEACHING on 30th August Days: 6 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £180.00A comprehensive introduction into the methods and variety of creative potential of sculptural ceramics. The course covers studio practice, clay types, basic core techniques of hand building for sculpture: coiling, pinching, slab building and surface decoration. These will be taught and put into practice to make finished ceramic forms. Through practical projects you will understand the material and, with emphasis on experimentation, how you can manipulate it to create a variety of forms. These can then be decorated with raw glazes and slips for a once fired finished piece.
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Immediate Printmaking: Drypoint, Carborundum and Collagraph
Course Code: E2101PR06 Tutor: Katherine Jones Course Dates: Mondays, 20th September - 29th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 Material Costs: £40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00Explore intaglio and relief techniques in this course, using texture and tone to make prints that are both painterly and graphic. You’ll learn to use monoprint, collagraph and drypoint plates in a low-toxic environment to develop a direct and immediate style of printmaking. This course is ideal for students who wish to bring their drawing, texture and colour skills to the print studio, to complete a series of multi-plate colour prints in a unique self-led project.
New processes will be demonstrated during the first 5 weeks. Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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Introduction to Japanese Woodcut
Course Code: SUN2004PR83 Tutor: Carol Wilhide Justin Course Dates: Sundays, 5th & 12th September 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00Japanese Woodcut or Mokuhanga is a relief process that is completely non-toxic in that it uses watercolour pigments and nori (rice starch) instead of oil-based ink. The prints are handprinted using a baren, no presses are necessary making this a process that can be done at home. The workshop explores the history of the traditional Japanese prints as exemplified by Hokusai and Hiroshige and follows the teaching that the tutor Carol Wilhide Justin herself received from Japanese sensei on her residency in Japan.
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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: SC2004137 Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00A well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or want to start from the beginning. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone and relate all these elements together through composition. This course aims to foster self-confidence and enjoyment of painting in a stimulating community environment. There will be work from both still-life and life models. Students will learn how to handle oil paint and understand different ways of approaching painting. Throughout the course students will learn from works of many artists to improve their development. There is plenty of guidance from the tutor and the course is fun and relaxing.
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Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: E2101P001 Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Fridays, 24th September - 3rd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course is suitable for those who have little or no experience with oils and wish to improve their technical skills with students gaining a basic understanding of how to work in oil paint and the practicalities of using oil painting materials. You will gain the confidence to work in oils and your tutor will help you start to develop a technical skill that can be used successfully to convey your visual ideas.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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Introduction to Painting
Course Code: WC2004013 Tutor: Neil Morley Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 21st & 22nd August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £220.00This is a well-structured and systematic course for those who have never painted before or would like to reassess their approach to painting. Students learn to see colour, shape and tone, and to relate 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 working from a life model, from still life as well as exploring a more creative approach to painting helping you establish your own style and identity. This course is a fun and relaxing experience that offers a high level of tutor contact time.
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Introduction to Sculpture
Course Code: WC2004003 Tutor: Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 7th & 8th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £170.00This 2-day course is an exciting introduction for beginners, as well as for those with some previous experience, to gain or develop basic sculpture skills. Working mainly in clay and plaster and some other mixed media, you will learn a range of techniques with the opportunity to explore your own creative project. The combination of clay and plaster opens up creative possibilities and offers a fun weekend at your own pace. You will spend the first day creating a small clay figure sculpture from a life model. On the second day you will develop creative sculpture using plaster and mixed media no need to worry if you have nothing in mind until you arrive for the course.
This is a great opportunity to discover, or return to, making 3-dimensional work and develop an individual approach. There will be the option to leave your finished sculpture for hollowing and firing for an additional fee.
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Introduction to Sculpture
Course Code: WC2101003 Tutor: Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 27th & 28th November 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £170.00This 2-day course is an exciting introduction for beginners, as well as for those with some previous experience, to gain or develop basic sculpture skills. Working mainly in clay and plaster and some other mixed media, you will learn a range of techniques with the opportunity to explore your own creative project. The combination of clay and plaster opens up creative possibilities and offers a fun weekend at your own pace. You will spend the first day creating a small clay figure sculpture from a life model. On the second day you will develop creative sculpture using plaster and mixed media no need to worry if you have nothing in mind until you arrive for the course.
This is a great opportunity to discover, or return to, making 3-dimensional work and develop an individual approach. There will be the option to leave your finished sculpture for hollowing and firing for an additional fee.
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Life Drawing
Course Code: SC2004001 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00Understanding the structure of the human figure and the way it is situated within a space is an essential practice for anyone keen to develop their drawing and observational skills. Each day you will have a different theme to explore, working from the 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 bring your drawing on most effectively and is suitable for more advanced drawers as well as beginners.
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Linocut Masterclass with Nick Morley
Course Code: WC2004PR85 Tutor: Nick Morley Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 28th & 29th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00This course is suitable for beginners or those with printmaking experience. Nick Morley (aka “Linocut boy”) specialises in hand carved linocuts. Students will learn to use professional Swiss tools and apply different printing techniques to create a range of effects. Nick will lead the group through the planning, carving and printing stages of multiplate printing.
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Materials & Mark Making
Course Code: E2001D62 Tutor: Claire Humphries, Jane Millar Course Dates: Fridays, 24th September - 3rd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course investigates the power, possibilities, and meaning of mark making in drawing. Each week you will approach mark making from a different perspective, contextualising your work through discussion of contemporary and historical artists who use drawing in their practice. Over the course you will test materials and experiment, use time and process to layer marks and create drawing devices from objects. Your aim will be to develop a deep and vibrant visual vocabulary of mark making in drawing, using a wide and experimental range of tools, materials, and approaches.
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Measurement & Proportion in Drawing
Course Code: E2101D02 Tutor: Adele Wagstaff Course Dates: Fridays, 24th September - 3rd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00In this course you will develop a straightforward approach to using systems of measurement when drawing from life or two-dimensional sources. You will gain confidence with using measuring techniques in drawing. The first part of the course will be dedicated to drawing figures and objects from life, followed by an assignment where your own photographs will provide the subject material for finished studies
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Kathryn DesforgesMokulito Wood Lithography with Kate Desforges
Course Code: WC2004PR88 Tutor: Kate Desforges Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 18th & 19th September 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £195 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £195.00Plywood 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. -
Observation, Anatomy and Measurement
Course Code: E2101S008 Tutor: Laura Postle Course Dates: Tuesdays, 21st September - 30th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 Material Costs: £10 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00Studying directly from a life model, you’ll sculpt the full figure on a half-life scale in clay. You’ll learn the essentials of construction, including various techniques in observation, measurement and use of a plumb line, and will combine these modelling skills with fundamental anatomical knowledge. You’ll also gain an understanding of the importance of capturing gesture and proportion.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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One Day Taster: Oil Painting – 22nd August
Course Code: TAS2004T11 Tutor: Lucy Smallbone Course Dates: Sunday, 22nd August 2021 Days: 1 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £105 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £105.00This is a fun day-long taster course in oil painting for those who may be considering a longer evening or daytime course and are wondering how much they will enjoy it. Throughout the day the tutor will lead the class in hands-on, practical demonstrations to show you how to mix colour and see shape and tone, and how these elements relate to form a composition. We aim to foster self-certainty and an enjoyment of painting in a relaxed yet stimulating environment.
You will make at least two paintings in the day, the morning will be spent focusing on how to handle oil paint whilst working from a still-life set up using natural and organic forms. During the afternoon students will be taken through detailed colour theory whilst painting a bright colourful still life, they will learn how colour and pigment strengths affect oil paint and how to use it to create a vibrant expressive painting. Throughout the day you will be encouraged to play and enjoy the application of paint whist also understanding techniques of working from observation.
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Online Tutorial
Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 £30.00 – £60.00You can book a tutorial with one of the Art Academy’s tutors even if you are unsure which tutor is the best suited for you. We will discuss your interests with you and make a recommendation for the best suited tutor.
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Online Tutorials with Annabel MacIver
Tutor: Annabel MacIver Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing £30.00 – £60.00Annabel teaches drawing for those who are beginning their journey in art or picking it up after a long break, and is also an experienced life drawing tutor. She focuses on building confidence in mark making and helping students to develop their drawing skills and style using a range of tools. Annabel works across media including print, mainly collagraph and etching.
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Online Tutorials with Beñat Olaberria
Tutor: Beñat Olaberria Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting and Drawing £30.00 – £60.00Beñat is an abstract artist who focuses his teaching in helping his students understand the basic principles of drawing and painting while he helps them find their own interests and visual language by encouraging creativity and experimentation in their mark-making and use of media.
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Online Tutorials with Carl Randall
Tutor: Carl Randall Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting and Drawing £30.00 – £60.00Carl is a figurative painter, who is interested in helping students grasp the fundamentals of painting and drawing. Lessons in shape, tone and colour are designed to simplify the process of rendering the visual world, with the aim of helping students gain confidence in their own painting and drawing skills. Exercises based on still-life or portraiture are often used, taught in logical and manageable steps. He also enjoys teaching composition, and assisting students with their own personal, self-directed projects.
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Online Tutorials with Eigil Nordstrøm
Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting, Drawing, Artistic Practice £30.00 – £60.00Eigil’s practice as an artist is centered around painting, but also involves drawing, photography. He is a very versatile and enthusiastic teacher, covering all levels of drawing, painting and artistic practice. This includes students looking for their first basic introduction, through intermediate students wanting to push their technical skills and discover their own style of painting, to degree level students developing critical context, lateral thinking and professional development. He also specialises in perspective drawing, landscape and interior painting.
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Online Tutorials with Gail Seres-Woolfson
Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting, Drawing, Collage and Abstraction £30.00 – £60.00Gail teaches a variety of painting and drawing classes, supporting and encouraging students to develop their skills and style. She is a warm and personable tutor, equally popular with beginners and more advanced students. Gail’s own work focuses on the urban landscape, abstraction and mixed media painting and collage, and as well as these areas she offers tuition for drawing and painting (acrylics and oils) across the fundamentals including tone, colour, measurement, portraiture, perspective and working from photographs. Gail is also delighted to work with students to pursue their own artistic projects.
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Online Tutorials with Jackie Smith
Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting and Printmaking £30.00 – £60.00Jackie specialises in supporting beginner students with ways into figurative and landscape painting, and printmaking. Focusing on exploring composition, tone and colour using acrylic paint, she can help to direct students to develop their own practice with exercises and ideas to work on their own. Jackie also works in relief and intaglio printmaking and can help print students who have some experience and some basic printmaking tools at home to develop their ideas and skills.
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Online Tutorials with Jessica Wetherly
Tutor: Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Sculpture and Installation £30.00 – £60.00Jessica excels at finding practical solutions to manifest ideas into reality and is interested in helping you discover meaning to your making within a wider contemporary and historical context. A training in figurative and portrait sculpture forms the foundation to Jessica’s practice with traditional techniques of modelling, moulding and casting. She is able to help students work with composition, anatomy, form and the architecture of space, applying core principals of observation to a variety of mediums. Jessica provides step by step methods to provide access for beginners whilst improving and directing intimidate and advanced students. Jessica teaches an array of drawing, sculpture, installation and critical practice.
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Online Tutorials with Kate Dunn
Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing and Painting £30.00 – £60.00Having studied in both a classical and contemporary setting, Kate has a breadth of knowledge spanning drawing and painting. Her teaching style takes its roots in ‘the methods of the masters’; considering how classical techniques can be applied to classes at any stage. Encouraging a questioning of the choices we make when creating an artwork, she urges students to recognise their habits, tastes and ticks, (even beginners have them!), furthering a deeper understanding of why and what we are attracted to.
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Online Tutorials with Lucy Smallbone
Tutor: Lucy Smallbone Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting with Oils, Acrylics and Watercolour £30.00 – £60.00Lucy is a colourful semi abstract landscape painter that specilises in oil paint, acrylic and watercolour. Students will learn a more expressive style of painting with a focus on finding their style and mark that suits them. Students will be taken through the basics of colour mixing, tone and paint styles which will help them to gain confidence and knowledge to push their painting practice forward.
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Online Tutorials with Lynne Abrahamson
Tutor: Lynne Abrahamson Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Sculpture and Textiles £30.00 – £60.00Lynne teaches Sculpture and Textiles and in her classes, she introduces students to a whole range of materials and artists in order to inspire and enable them to push their ideas and their practice in unexpected ways. Lynne has over 10 years experience working 1:1 and is skilled at listening in order to find out where a student is at and helping him/her to reach the next stage on their artistic journey. Lynne is passionate about materials and techniques and experiments with a whole range in her own practice, from thread and embroidery to latex, wire, fabric and cotton wool, to create 2-D and 3-D forms!
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Online Tutorials with Natasha Lien
Tutor: Natasha Lien Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing and Painting in Watercolour, Acrylic and Oil £30.00 – £60.00Natasha is a figurative artist who has many years of experience in teaching all levels of students from beginners to advanced. she caters to each individual students needs and encourages students to develop fundamental two dimensional skills such as tone, structure, measurement, composition and colour mixing whilst looking at art history and getting inspiration from the great masters.Online lessons will include copying paintings and photos as well as working from observation, covering all subject matters, still life, portraiture and landscapes. Natasha also encourages students to develop personal projects. -
Online Tutorials with Nevine Fathy
Tutor: Nevine Fathy Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing and Painting £30.00 – £60.00Nevine is a figurative artist, who focuses on teaching the fundamentals of representational drawing and painting. Students are guided through exercises to gain confidence in their skills while exploring their own unique artistic voice. Regardless of their level of experience, Nevine is enthusiastic about guiding students of all levels through their creative journey and will be giving suggestions and recommendations for their art practice beyond the class.
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Online Tutorials with Nicholas McLeod
Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Painting: Oil and Acrylic £30.00 – £60.00Nicholas specialises in painting with an emphasis on understanding the basic principles that underpin the medium: by helping students to understand colour mixing, paint application and tone, each student can start to develop a strong foundation on which to base their own practice. Nicholas is also interested in contextualising contemporary practice within a wider art historical field and enjoys helping others to navigate this in regards to their own painting.
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Online Tutorials with Rachael Ball
Tutor: Rachael Ball Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing, Painting, Writing and Illustration £30.00 – £60.00Rachael is passionate about visual storytelling and creating children’s picture books as a means of self-expression; for creating wonder or just for pure pleasure. At the start of your tutorial, she will identify your strengths and needs so that she can give you the best feedback to support you. Whether that’s refining your current children’s book or creating a story and characters from scratch. If you require further sessions she will create a step by step program to enable you to create a successful children’s book. During the program you will look at various authors and illustrators approaches to visual storytelling whilst developing your own ideas and style. Rachael recognises the importance of our emotions in our learning and sees building confidence and finding our own visual vocabulary as key to finding our own unique style.
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Online Tutorials with Zoe Toolan
Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Various dates Times: 30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slots Fee: £30, £60 Subject: Drawing, Live Art, Multidisciplinary £30.00 – £60.00Zoe regards teaching as an art in its own right and sees it as a vital part of her own practice. She’s an experienced and energetic tutor who passionately believes that drawing is the key to understanding yourself, other people and the world around you, as well as being the gateway to all other artistic disciplines. Through an individually tailored mix of discussion, practical application, art history and contemporary context, Zoe will work with you to build a supportive framework to identify and further your artistic goals.
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Outdoor Creative Painting
Course Code: EC2004024 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Wednesdays 4th August - 8th September 2021 Days: 6 Times: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR, Various locations £180.00As 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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Outdoor Painting
Course Code: SC2004024 Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 9th August - 13th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00This is a fun course that offers the fantastic opportunity to paint in and around London’s urban landscape. The Art Academy is just a short stroll from the Thames, conveniently situated in the historic Southwark London Bridge area which will feature as the main focus of this course. Working with quick sketches in oil or acrylic, students will practice how to efficiently and accurately capture tone and colour in the outdoors. Creating loose and vigorous paintings, we will look at how to capture a sense of light and atmosphere at different times of day. Looking at the works of other artists we will discuss different ways of composing a painting in an urban setting. Basic painting techniques such as tone, colour and texture will be addressed, as well as creative expression in the application of paint. Painting outside of the studio is always an exciting experience and students of all levels are sure to enjoy painting outdoors. -
Paint Applications in Portraiture
Course Code: E2101P007 Tutor: Carl Randall, Edward Sutcliffe, Giles Lester, Robin-Lee Hall, Tim Benson Course Dates: Tuesdays, 21st September - 30th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £550 Material Costs: £8 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00This course is all about paint! Working with several different tutors, each of whom are practising portrait artists who work using very different painting techniques, you will be given the opportunity to explore a variety of ways of applying paint when painting a portrait. The results are likely to be significantly different from week to week. The course is suitable for people with some experience of portrait painting.
NB: Because this course is taught by 5 different tutors and is focused on different painting techniques, there are more materials required for it than for other courses
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Painting for Beginners
Course Code: EC2004113 Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Wednesdays, 11th August - 8th September 2021 Days: 5 Times: 6.45pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £150 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £150.00This 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 in Practice
Course Code: E2101P004 Tutor: Neil Morley Course Dates: Tuesdays, 21st September - 30th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course will help you discover what it is about painting that motivates and inspires you. You will explore how to develop ideas from photographs and 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.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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Painting Outdoors
Course Code: WC2004024 Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 14th & 15th August 2021 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £170 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £170.00This is a fun course that offers the fantastic opportunity to paint in and around London’s urban landscape. The Art Academy is just a short stroll from the river in the historic area of London Bridge, which will feature as the main focus of this course. Working with quick sketches in oil or acrylic, students will practice how to efficiently and accurately capture tone and colour outside. Creating loose and vigorous paintings, we will look at how to capture a sense of light and atmosphere at different times of day. Looking at the works of other artists we will discuss different ways of composing a painting in an urban setting. Painting outside of the studio is always an exciting experience and students of all levels are sure to enjoy the challenge.
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Painting Portraits from the Masters
Course Code: E2101P009 Tutor: Giles Lester Course Dates: Thursdays, 23rd September - 2nd December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course will give you the opportunity to study and analyse the approaches taken by great portrait painters from the past and learn how to apply something of the techniques and approaches used by these artists. Working directly from paintings in London galleries and then painting in the studio, you will analyse their work and create copies of well-known portraits. This course will culminate in you developing a portrait of your own, influenced by artists you have been studying.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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Pewter Casting using the “Lost Wax” Technique
Course Code: SC2004032 Tutor: Robert Worley MRBS Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 16th August - 19th August 2021 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00This practical course is suitable for beginners and experienced artists who want to experiment with metal cast sculpture. Pewter is a metal that can be cast and finished in your own studio, with relatively basic equipment, and without the need of a foundry. Pewter is a silver coloured tin metal alloy which melts at low temperatures. During the course you will model a sculpture in wax, learn how to cast in pewter using plaster waste moulds and the ‘lost wax’ casting technique.
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Photopolymer and Photoetching
Course Code: SC2004PR97 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 9th August - 12th August 2021 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00During 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 week, guided by our experienced tutor. The intaglio prints exhibit rich velvet blacks with a wide and continuous tonal range, sensitive to the original expression of the artist.
The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands-on learning; ideal for a study week abroad, to develop a body of work for a portfolio or an opportunity to learn a new creative skill. There is a maximum of ten students per course, materials are included and we advise that you book early to avoid disappointment.
On completion of this course you will be eligible for a free Open Access session (noting that UV equipment cannot be used during Open Access) to continue editioning your work.
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Portrait & Figure Painting
Course Code: E2101P31 Tutor: TBC Course Dates: Saturdays, 25th September - 4th December 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00Taught by experienced, preeminent portrait and figure painters, the Saturday Portrait and Figure Painting Class introduces different approaches within portraiture and figure painting. This term, Clae Eastgate will guide you through portrait painting and the technical application for creating a head and shoulders portrait. Working in three modules, the course will cover a drawing technique for effectively assessing and finding head angles, proportions and tonal values. You will also learn colour mixing from scratch, to work with the placement of colour and create palettes for different skin tones, culminating in painting a head and shoulders portrait in full from life. Charlie Schaffer will be concentrating on teaching how to look closer, how to understand what it is you are seeing, and pay equal attention to all aspects of the drawing and painting.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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Portrait Painting
Course Code: SC2004218 Tutor: Charlie Schaffer Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00This is a well structured course with an emphasis on learning to understand the construction of the head and its features and using these skills to better create more intense, expressive portraits. Working with oil paints students will develop a series of artworks, from short expressive painting sketches, to longer more detailed pieces. The students will also be encouraged to work intuitively and expressively in tandem with an emphasis on accuracy of observation. The class has the benefit of 1:8 model to student ratio, as well as tuition from a talented professional artist, Charlie Schaffer. Students will receive one-to-one guidance throughout the course, and Charlie will be on hand to give regular feedback and constructive advice. He will also be demonstrating and painting alongside the students.
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Portrait Painting
Course Code: EC2004018 Tutor: Andrew Hitchcock Course Dates: Mondays, 9th August - 20th September 2021, NO TEACHING on 30th August Days: 6 Times: 6.45pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £195 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £195.00This 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 Masterclass with Andy James
Course Code: WC2004051 Tutor: Andy James Course Dates: Friday - Sunday, 13th - 15th August 2021 Days: 3 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £360 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £360.00This course is designed to help you further develop your portait painting skills, focusing on both creating a likeness and increasing the expressive aspects of your portrait skills. These two elements will be explored together over this three-day masterclass; you’ll first make several charcoal studies, followed by a brief oil sketch and finally, a fully developed portrait in oil. You’ll focus on accuracy of observation and measurement, while also making a fresh, energised and expressive response to the model. By the end of the masterclass, you will have developed your existing skills and knowledge of structure, tone, colour, composition and express use of paint and charcoal, and you will have completed one portrait painting and a number of briefer sketches and studies. The class has the benefit of 1:8 model to student ratio, as well as tuition from a talented professional artist.
Throughout this masterclass, you’ll receive regular one-to-one guidance from Andy James. A self taught artist, Andy has been painting for over 25 years, capturing incredible likeness and energy of his subjects through his sumptuous, rigorous and painterly approach. Andy has worked on many prestigious commissions of well-known public figures. He was the winner of the Carroll Foundation Award, the Changing Faces Award and of BBC’s Star Portraits, and served as the Vice President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 2008 to 2014.
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Portrait Painting Masterclass with Andy Pankhurst
Course Code: SC2004250 Tutor: Andy Pankhurst Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £395 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £395.00For some artists the portrait can be about purely formal aspects, with no relevance placed on the character of the sitter. Under the tuition of Andy Pankhurst you will be encouraged to explore and discover what you personally want to “paint about”, working from a model throughout the week. Starting with preliminary drawings on day one you will be introduced to the concepts of measurement and proportion, form, tone, space, composition and pictorial structure. The focus will then be on producing a colour oil sketch from the portrait model with a particular emphasis on colour and temperature. The final three days of the course will be spent on a large-scale portrait painting of a sustained pose. This exciting course is an intensive five days that offers a high level of tutor contact time.
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Portrait Painting Masterclass with Tim Benson
Course Code: SC2004050 Tutor: Tim Benson Course Dates: Monday - Wednesday, 9th August - 11th August 2021 Days: 3 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £315 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £315.00This three-day portrait course will offer an opportunity for intensive study under the tuition of Tim Benson. The class has the benefit of 1:8 model to student ratio, as well as tuition from a talented professional artist. Students will produce at least four oil sketches on the first day and at least one more ‘finished’ painting by the final day. Under Tim’s guidance, students will concentrate on tonal painting allowing the emphasis to be on the form. During the course of the painting there will be an in-depth look at how to mix up colours. The tutor will also be working alongside the students demonstrating a ‘wet in wet’ technique. This exciting course is an intensive three days that offers a high level of tutor contact time.
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Portrait Sculpture
Course Code: EC2004005 Tutor: Anthony Waters Course Dates: Thursdays, 26th August - 23rd September 2021 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £155 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £155.00If you are interested in learning to sculpt the human head then this is an ideal class for you. You will model Portrait Head Sculpture in clay for 5 weeks with a 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 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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Portrait Sculpture For All
Course Code: SC2004039 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 9th August - 13th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00Portrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This week-long course aims to introduce you to the process; to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model.Whether setting out a portrait head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method and/or searching for a more expressive manner of approach, you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural experience.
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Reduction Relief: Linocut and Woodcut
Course Code: E2101PR02 Tutor: Temsüyanger Longkumer Course Dates: Tuesdays, 21st September - 30th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 Material Costs: £40 (See Daily Breakdown for Details) From: £550.00This course focuses on form and colour through reduction relief printmaking; a traditional and immediate sculptural approach to print using professional Japanese woodcut tools. This course is ideal for developing your colour skills, learning how to apply multiple colour combinations to wood and linoleum blocks to expand your printmaking knowledge and develop a self-led project.
Processes will be demonstrated week by week. Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. Although the course has a general theme and approach there is no fixed or prescriptive methodology and individuals are encouraged to blend their own experience with all aspects of this course.
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Relief Printing: Multiplate Woodcut
Course Code: EC2004PR14 Tutor: Carol Wilhide Justin Course Dates: Tuesdays, 24th August - 21st September 2021 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £180.00This 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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Spatial Construction & Performance
Course Code: E2101S002 Tutor: Enam Gbewonyo, Robin Tarbet Course Dates: Mondays, 20th September - 29th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 £550.00This course is for students who are interested in exploring the construction of space, both literally and with concern to the language of space as material itself. We will look at the internal space of the body and what it means to make artwork that challenges the limits of the body in its environment.
Although the world we live in is ever expanding into the digital and virtual field, this course explores tactility; the immediacy of materials that can be played with, manipulated and displayed. The material of space can sometimes seem irrevocable, yet as artists our role is to play and to see what it might mean to treat steel like paper or concrete like water.
Through the course you will develop your voice as an artist, explore your own language and how you might begin to communicate to your audience. Tutors will take you through some of the planning processes of making large scale works and the idea of making proposals, both with a view to realising the work and the idea of proposal as artwork.
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The Fundamentals of Portraiture
Course Code: E2101P006 Tutor: Robin-Lee Hall Course Dates: Mondays, 20th September - 29th November 2021 Days: 10 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £550 From: £550.00This course is an intended revision course for students with experience of portrait painting. It examines fundamental aspects of portrait painting to ensure you have a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and skills required. You will analyse form and colour, consider again the handling and mixing of colour, and how it applies to portrait painting.
Your tutor will support you fully throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support, providing very regular feedback, critique and constructive advice.
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Young Artists: Animation Challenge
Course Code: SC2004022 Tutor: Emma Seach Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 9th August - 13th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00This fun five-day course for students aged 12-16 provides a skills-based experience and expert tuition in animation. Students will be taught skills in stop motion, 2D drawing and the use of Adobe Creative Suite as an animation tool.
The days will be themed and split in half; the mornings will focus on skills development and the afternoons will focus on creating an animation using the skills learnt. The course will culminate in a screening of work to peers and parents.
Students will be encouraged to work in groups and independently while challenging or responding to ideas and new skills in an enjoyable and creative space.
Please note, you must complete a consent form before your child can join our Young Artists programme. This form is available for download here. Please email your completed form to shortcourses@artacademy.org.uk. Your child may also bring a completed hard-copy version of this form with them on the first day of their course.
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Young Artists: Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media
Course Code: SC2004228 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Tutor: Alice Clarke, Gail Seres-Woolfson Days: 5 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00In this interesting new course, you will experiment with a range of materials that you may not be familiar with, including different paints, textiles, plaster casting and mixed-media. The course aims to help you develop a new range of skills and expand your artistic vocabulary, and culminates in a personal project on the final day where you can translate your ideas and interests into a finished artwork using the techniques and media you have learned about. There will be time for one-to-one guidance and input from the tutor on days 3 to 5, to further help and encourage you to develop your own ideas and artistic projects.
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Young Artists: Drawing, Painting and Sculpting the Figure
Course Code: SC2004119 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 9th August - 13th August 2021 Tutor: Alice Clarke Days: 5 Times: 10.15am - 4.15pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00Young Artists is an exciting five day course for ages 12-14 providing high level art tuition, including drawing workshops, contemporary painting, specialist sculpture techniques, and using experimental media. Focused classes create a supportive environment, and there is a strong focus on personal outcomes and solutions to develop independent judgement. Access to specialist materials and facilities improve technical skills, and discussion and presentation sessions build confidence and critical understanding. This course is ideal for those studying a range of arts based GCSE subjects, or wanting to advance their artistic skills and creative confidence. -
Young Artists: Drawing, Painting and Sculpting the Figure
Course Code: SC2004219 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 23rd August - 27th August 2021 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson, Jessica Wetherly Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00Young Artists is an exciting five day course for ages 12-14 providing high level art tuition, including drawing workshops, contemporary painting, specialist sculpture techniques, and using experimental media. Focused classes create a supportive environment, and there is a strong focus on personal outcomes and solutions to develop independent judgement. Access to specialist materials and facilities improve technical skills, and discussion and presentation sessions build confidence and critical understanding. This course is ideal for those studying a range of arts based GCSE subjects, or wanting to advance their artistic skills and creative confidence. -
Young Artists: Manga Illustration
Course Code: SC2004223 Tutor: Chie Kutsuwada Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 23rd August - 27th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00In this NEW course students will learn all basic knowledge and techniques to complete their manga comic strip. The course focuses on the uniqueness on manga style, such as how to make pages look exciting and attractive within the limitation of monochrome and how to express the character’s emotions effectively. At the same time, it includes the very important basic skills like figure drawing. The students are encouraged to use traditional approach to ‘draw and plan’ pages and to finalise their work in digital form. The aim of the course is to make sure that all the students feel more confident creating manga illustrations and to complete at least two pages of manga style art.
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Young Artists: Manga Illustration
Course Code: SC2004123 Tutor: Chie Kutsuwada Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 16th August - 20th August 2021 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00In this NEW course students will learn all basic knowledge and techniques to complete their manga comic strip. The course focuses on the uniqueness on manga style, such as how to make pages look exciting and attractive within the limitation of monochrome and how to express the character’s emotions effectively. At the same time, it includes the very important basic skills like figure drawing. The students are encouraged to use traditional approach to ‘draw and plan’ pages and to finalise their work in digital form. The aim of the course is to make sure that all the students feel more confident creating manga illustrations and to complete at least two pages of manga style art.
