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Fine Art Foundation Deposit
£350.00Fine Art Foundation
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Introduction to Oil Painting with Lucy Smallbone – Online Course
Tutor: Lucy Smallbone Location: Online Fee: £40 Experience Level: Beginner £40.00For beginners and those returning to oil painting, this course is divided into six easy-to-follow lessons that you can take at your own pace. Your tutor, Lucy Smallbone, is an experienced teacher of oil and acrylics at Art Academy London who has a passion for gestural landscape painting. She will explain why she enjoys painting with oils, introduce you to the concepts of tone, colour and colour-mixing, show you four different techniques for applying oil paint and explain how you can plan your own projects and develop a style of your own going forward.
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Certificate Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00Certificate Programme
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Young Artists: Experimentations with Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media
Course Code: SC2104028 Tutor: Farnoush Amini, Annabel MacIver Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14 Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In 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: Fine Art Workshop
Course Code: SC2104020 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Tutor: Alice Clarke Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 15-17, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00An inspiring five day course for ages 15-17 providing a skills-based experience and expert tuition in a range of materials and techniques. The programme is taught by specialist tutors who are also professional, practicing artists. Access to portrait models and contemporary painting and sculpture techniques provides a unique opportunity to develop new skills. Students develop their painting style encompassing portraiture and mixed media abstraction, along with two days of exploring different sculpture techniques. This is an ideal course for those studying arts subjects who wish to develop coursework, create new work for their portfolio, develop new techniques and skills, and further existing abilities in a professional art school environment.
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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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Figure and Portrait Painting Masterclass with James Bland
Course Code: SC2104051 Tutor: James Bland Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £385 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £385.00A fun and intensive week of life and portrait painting appropriate for advanced skill level. By the end of the masterclass, you will have developed your existing skills and knowledge of structure, tone, colour, composition under the guidance of an experienced practicing artist. The emphasis will be on learning practical skills as well as bringing out your intuitive ability. The course will cover planning a painting and executing two types of portrait: head and shoulders and a full figure composition.
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Des HaughtonIntermediate Portrait Painting with Des Haughton
Course Code: SC2104151 Tutor: Des Haughton Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Intermediate Fee: £355 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £355.00This five-day portrait painting course will offer an opportunity for intensive study under the tuition of Des Haughton. This is a five-day intermediate course in painting portraits from observation in oils and it is designed for students with previous painting experience. The aim of this exciting Portrait course is to give students opportunity to focus exclusively on the challenges faced when painting a portrait. The course will cover a variety of techniques including how to construct a portrait, how to mix colours, how to see and understand “Tone” and to explore the important role tone (light) plays in creative volume. The final part of the course examines “expression” and the possibilities within portraiture.
It’s an intensive five days that offer a high level of tutor contact time with Des giving demonstrations, individual guidance, criticism and advice. The course aims to stimulate, refresh and advance your practice on an individual basis. Please be aware that on Friday the class will finish at 4.30pm.
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Young Artists: Drawing, painting and sculpting the figure
Course Code: SC2104119 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Tutor: Helen Stone, Usva Seregina Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00Young 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. -
BA (HONS) Fine Art Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00BA (HONS) Fine Art
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Young Artists: Animation Challenge
Course Code: SC2104022 Tutor: Sujay Narayan Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00A fun and inspiring four day course for ages 12-16 providing a skills based experience and expert tuition in animation. You will be taught skills in stop motion, 2D drawing for animation and the use of Adobe Creative Suite as an animation tool. The course will be fast, fun and will culminate in a screening of your work to peers and parents. The days will be themed and split into half with the mornings focusing on skills development and the afternoons focusing on making an animation using the skills you have learnt in response to a given theme. You will be encouraged to work in groups and on your own and to challenge and respond to ideas and new skills in an enjoyable and creative space.
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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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Abstract Painting
Course Code: WC2104038 Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 6th & 7th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £175.00This 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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Portrait Painting Masterclass with Tim Benson
Course Code: SC2104251 Tutor: Tim Benson Course Dates: Monday - Wednesday, 1st - 3rd August 2022 Days: 3 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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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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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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: SC2104018 Tutor: Charlie Schaffer Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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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Young Artists: Manga Illustration
Course Code: SC2104123 Tutor: Chie Kutsuwada Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In this 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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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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Creative Mix
Course Code: SC2104030 Tutor: Temsüyanger Longkumer, Gail Seres-Woolfson, Lynne Abrahamson Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00The Creative Mix is an ideal way to explore a variety of artistic methods. Over the five days, students will work through various exercises in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. This is a great ‘taster’ course and an excellent opportunity to both develop skills and get creative with your own ideas.
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Young Artists: Fine Art Workshop
Course Code: SC2104120 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Tutor: Lynne Abrahamson, Zoe Toolan Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 15-17, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00An inspiring five day course for ages 15-17 providing a skills-based experience and expert tuition in a range of materials and techniques. The programme is taught by specialist tutors who are also professional, practicing artists. Access to portrait models and contemporary painting and sculpture techniques provides a unique opportunity to develop new skills. Students develop their painting style encompassing portraiture and mixed media abstraction, along with two days of exploring different sculpture techniques. This is an ideal course for those studying arts subjects who wish to develop coursework, create new work for their portfolio, develop new techniques and skills, and further existing abilities in a professional art school environment.
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Young Artists: Manga Illustration
Course Code: SC2104023 Tutor: Chie Kutsuwada Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In this 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: Experimentations with Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media
Course Code: SC2104128 Tutor: Farnoush Amini, Annabel MacIver Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14 Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In 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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Collagraph Printmaking with Katherine Jones
Course Code: WC2104PR86 Tutor: Katherine Jones Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 6th & 7th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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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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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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Relief Printing
Course Code: SC2104PR04 Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 25th - 28th July 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00This course is ideal for beginners or for those wanting a refresher course. In the first half of the week you will learn how to cut a reduction linocut. This technique popularised by Picasso uses just one linoleum block that is successively cut to make multi-coloured prints. In the second half of the week you will learn a different technique using woodblocks and colour separations to cut three different blocks to create your multi-plate prints.
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FD (Contemporary Portraiture) Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00FD (Contemporary Portraiture)
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Outdoor Painting
Course Code: SC2104024 Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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. -
Young Artists: Drawing, painting and sculpting the figure
Course Code: SC2104219 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Tutor: Helen Stone, Jessica Wetherly Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00Young 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: Graphic Novels and Comics
Course Code: SC2104121 Tutor: Chris Geary Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 14-16, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00This five-day course encourages students aged 14 to 16 to use traditional and digital techniques to create pages for comics and graphic novels, including character design and development, visual storytelling, colouring and lettering. By the end of the course, students will have produced at least two full-colour pages of comic-strip art.
This course is ideal for students of all skill levels, from those looking to advance their artistic skills and creative confidence to those looking to increase an interest in a subject that isn’t their favourite!
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Young Artists: Manga Illustration
Course Code: SC2104223 Tutor: Chie Kutsuwada Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-16, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In this 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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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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Figure Painting Masterclass with Charles Pickard
Course Code: WC2104051 Tutor: Charles Pickard Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Intermediate/Advanced Fee: £200 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £200.00In this exciting weekend course, under the tuition of Charlie Pickard, students will tackle the most challenging and important academic subject to master: the human figure. Students will have the opportunity to study a model from life for a 2-day pose, allowing enough time to thoroughly observe the nuances of form and colour, by painting the model for a total of six hours per day. Critiques will be focused on achieving a high level of academic accuracy, building a strong foundation that will aid in all further artwork. Charlie Pickard will also demonstrate a painting alongside students, using a direct painting method.
This is an intermediate/ advanced level course and previous painting experience is required.
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Introduction to Japanese Woodcut
Course Code: SUN2104PR83 Tutor: Carol Wilhide Justin Course Dates: Sundays, 24th & 31st July 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £185 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £185.00Japanese 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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Expressive Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with Hazel Reeves
Course Code: WC2104053 Tutor: Hazel Reeves Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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Drawing For All
Course Code: WC2104001 Tutor: Thomas Golunski Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with David Klein
Course Code: SC2104053 Tutor: David Klein Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £375 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £375.00Portrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This course aims to build upon your previous experience [Intermediate/Advanced] to further how to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your tutor, David Klein, member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (MRBS) and the Society of Portrait Sculptors (SPS). 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.
David Klein hopes to impart a few of the tools he has learnt and explore on this course that wonderful tension between finely rendered form and unworked chaos. Portraiture is a search. This search for form, truth and personality requires tools. From the force of the neck into the weight of the head, which in so many ways defines and marks exceptional sculpture. This course will explore the structure, turning points of form, emphasis and simplification.
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Drawing and Painting for Beginners
Course Code: SC2104131 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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. Students will explore various ways of seeing, increasing their understanding and confidence to draw and paint. Topics include linear drawing, tonal drawing, composition, expressive drawing/painting, study of natural forms and personal project. A fun and intensive course that will leave students with the knowledge and inspiration to start their own artworks. Please be aware that on Friday the class finishes at 4.30pm.
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Portrait Painting Masterclass with Andy Pankhurst
Course Code: SC2104351 Tutor: Andy Pankhurst Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £395 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £375.00For 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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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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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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Kiln Formed Glass
Course Code: SC2104007 Tutor: Maria Zulueta Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00A comprehensive introduction to the various techniques of kiln formed glass as well as a brief study of the history of glass-making. This is an all round opportunity to experiment with ideas and technical glass making skills from a sculptural perspective that progresses to completing an independent project.
The course covers model and mould making using a variety of mould making materials, approaches kiln formed glass techniques and starting points such as open casting, fusing and slumping. You will be taught how to cut, clean and arrange glass in preparation for fusing and slumping into a basic bowl shape. A short project will be set to encourage you to adopt an experimental approach using mould making refractory open cast processes. You will be shown how to use coloured glass to create a 3D sculptural glass form of your own design. You will be taught through demonstration, group and individual instruction and learn from hands on experience. Through looking at both contemporary and historical works you will discover the potential of the medium of glass. -
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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Painting the Figure in Space
Course Code: SC2104033 Tutor: Carl Randall Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00This course is a packed week covering a range of ways to paint the human figure in different types of spaces, and is a good introductory course or works as a refresher for those with painting experience. We start by painting the life model in the studio space, focusing on perspective and placing the figure in the room. The next day we look at a technique used by contemporary painters and the old masters, of working from miniature models as a way of working out interesting compositions. Days 4 and 5 are one project – gathering information collected from outside, and then constructing your own compositions in the studio, incorporating 3 figures into the space as a way of suggesting narrative. Oils and acrylics both welcome. -
Portrait Sculpture For All
Course Code: SC2104039 Tutor: Anthony Waters Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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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Painting Outdoors
Course Code: WC2104024 Tutor: Eigil Nordstrøm Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 30th & 31st July 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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Drawing Views of London
Course Code: SC2104004 Tutor: Natasha Lien Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 22nd July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ 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 outdoor sketching and urban drawing. Over the five days, students will draw on location at various sites near the Art Academy. Students will tackle the architecture of the Southbank, explore busy Borough Market, sketch the serene view across to St Paul’s and much more. Each class will begin with a brief introduction to the day’s subject, showing examples of the work of artists who have depicted similar scenes to the ones which the students will experience. Each day the tutor will introduce a new material or drawing technique for the students to explore over the day, in their sketchbooks or on larger sheets of paper.
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One Day Taster: Drawing – 9th July
Course Code: TAS2104T02 Tutor: Jackie Smith Course Dates: Saturday, 9th July 2022 Days: 1 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £105 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £105.00This is a fun, day-long taster course in drawing 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 practical demonstrations to help you begin to see shape and tone, and how these elements can relate together to form a composition. We aim to foster self-certainty and an enjoyment of drawing in a relaxed yet stimulating environment. As you work through a series of exercises, you will gain confidence with pencil and charcoal, which will encourage you to further explore the medium. -
One Day Taster: Oil Painting – 31st July
Course Code: TAS2104T01 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Sunday, 31st July 2022 Days: 1 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm 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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Drawing the Portrait
Course Code: SC2104068 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00Both a vital stand alone discipline and arguably the foundation for all other types of art, drawing and the ever-fascinating world of portraiture collide in this inspiring five day portrait drawing course.
In this beginner’s course drawing fundamentals will be addressed throughout each day while. Working mainly from portrait models, students will first explore portrait through a practical and structured approach to observation. The skills of anatomy and measurement will be complemented with more experimental ways of working, critical analysis of various artworks and group discussion, all with aim of instilling the confidence needed to marry physical likeness with personal artistic expression.
A vibrant and supportive studio environment will be created by your tutor Zoe who will encourage you to explore and push yourself through both the discipline and subject. This course is a must for anyone interested in improving their portrait understanding, furthering their interest in drawing through the focus of portraiture, and those wanting to progress to create portraits in other disciplines, such as painting. We recommend completing a beginners drawing course or having basic drawing skills before signing up for this course.
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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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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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Young Artists: Exhibition Challenge
Course Code: SC2104115 Tutor: Alice Clarke Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm Experience Level: Ages 12-17, All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London - Red Lion Court, Ground Floor, 44-46 Park St, SE1 9EQ £335.00Art is all about sharing your ideas with the world. If you join this course you will plan and execute a group exhibition in a dedicated gallery space over the course of two months. It’s an ambitious goal and you will be supported by experienced tutors to push your artwork and develop your ideas. As a group you will choose a theme and everyone will create new work to display together. During our final session we will host a private view for your friends and family to come and celebrate your creativity.
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Young Artists – Fine Art Workshop: Latex and Textile
Course Code: SC2104025 Tutor: Lynne Abrahamson Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 1st - 4th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Ages 12-17 Fee: £275 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £275.00This exciting new course aims to introduce students to the use of textiles, embroidery and latex in contemporary art; this will enable you to expand your artistic vocabulary, develop your portfolio and experiment with mediums that you may not be very familiar with. Each day will begin with an introduction to artists who use textiles in their work, to inspire you and contextualise the lessons. In the morning, you will be taught different techniques and in the afternoon, you will apply these techniques to a project (either your own idea or one suggested by the tutor).
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: Experimentations with Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media
Course Code: SC2104228 Tutor: Farnoush Amini, Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14 Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00In 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: SC2104319 Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 22nd - 26th August 2022 Tutor: Mercedes Balle, Anthony Waters Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Ages 12-14, All Levels Fee: £345 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £345.00Young 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. -
Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with Ellen Christiansen
Course Code: SC2104253 Tutor: Ellen Christiansen Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Advanced Fee: £375 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £375.00Portrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This course aims to build upon your previous experience [Intermediate/Advanced] to further how to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your experienced tutor, Ellen Christiansen, member of Society of Portrait Sculptors, winner of the 2014/15 Founders’ Sculpture Prize and winner of Heatherley’s Prize 2018. Setting out a head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method of approach, you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural progression.
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Life Drawing
Course Code: SC2104001 Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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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Pewter Casting using the “Lost Wax” Technique
Course Code: SC2104032 Tutor: Robert Worley MRBS Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 15th - 18th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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.
Bring your own ideas or come with an open mind and be inspired to work with new materials and sculpture techniques. This is a practical workshop based course with one to one and group guidance from the tutor. -
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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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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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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Drawing and Painting for Beginners
Course Code: SC2104031 Tutor: Gail Seres-Woolfson Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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.
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Art History – British Art of the 20th Century (From the Edwardian Era to the YBAS)
Course Code: OC2201AH07 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 3rd October - 31st October 2022 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £105 Location: Online £105.00A new century brought with it aspects of the traditionalism of the previous era, with some artists continuing the themes of the Pre-Raphaelites. However, key factors, including the significant number of women artists studying at the Slade and Roger Fry’s organisation of a Post-Impressionist exhibition in London, contributed to the development of modernism. Two World Wars devastated a generation of young men and artists both at home and at the Front responded with both horror and sympathy to what they witnessed. Pop Art celebrated the optimism of post-War Britain in the Swinging Sixties. This confident attitude continued during the ‘Cool Britannia’ of the 1990s with the Young British Artists (YBAS). The artists who dominated this latter movement became household names, their work and attitude scandalised and fascinated in equal measure.
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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.
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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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Rachael BallDesign a Children’s Book – course with Rachael Ball
Course Code: SC2104063 Tutor: Rachael Ball Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London - Red Lion Court, Groud Floor, 46-48 Park St, SE1 9EQ £335.00On this exciting one week summer course you will learn the secrets to inventing, writing and illustrating a children’s picture book; experiment with different media and approaches; benefit from regular mentoring from a published author and gain professional tips for approaching a publisher. By the end of this fun and inspirational week, you will have written a compelling story; created fabulous characters; experimented with making a finished page or pages of artwork and designed and developed a storyboard.
This course is ideal for aspiring writers and illustrators who want to learn the fundamentals to making a picture book and is suitable for amateurs and professionals alike.
The tutor, Rachael Ball has also taught workshops on writing and illustrating picture books and graphic novels at Anglia Ruskin University, the Arvon, the House of Illustration and the City Lit. Her first graphic novel, published by Bloomsbury was one of the Guardian’s best graphic novels 2015. Her second YA graphic novel, Wolf, published by SelfMadeHero in 2018 was described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘wildly inventive, poignant and elegiac.’ -
Introduction to Oil Painting
Course Code: SC2104037 Tutor: Nicholas McLeod Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London - Red Lion Court, Ground Floor, 44-46 Park St, SE1 9EQ 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 Hand Built Ceramics
Course Code: SC2104047 Tutor: Adele Williams Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 18th -21th July 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00Our new week-long course is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in working with clay. While learning different techniques you will create ceramic pieces which you will have an opportunity to decorate using carving, impressing technique as well as slips. Your ceramic pieces will be fired fired for you.
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Printmaking for Beginners
Course Code: SC2104PR01 Tutor: Carol Wilhide Justin Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 1st - 4th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £270 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £270.00This course is ideal for beginners, repeat attendees or visitors to London, to offer an in depth introduction to relief and intaglio printmaking. For the first two days, you will learn to work with Japanese wood carving tools to create a series of multi-colour reduction relief prints on linoleum. During the last two days of the course, you will learn to combine both a hard-ground line and aquatint tone to create a series of black and white etchings. Guided by the tutor, students will expand their knowledge to realise a portfolio of prints.
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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Portrait Painting
Course Code: SC2104118 Tutor: Charlie Schaffer Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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Drawing for All
Course Code: SC2104009 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 22nd - 26th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm 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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Abstract Painting
Course Code: SC2104041 Tutor: Kate Dunn Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022 Days: 5 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £335.00This course has been created to be both practical and discussion led, the aim is for us to learn ways of looking, speaking and making. The central focus is to question our conditioning; how historical, political, social, gendered and other factors have influenced our relation to the visual world around us, and therefore our relation to visual art. The general daily structure of this course will be as follows: every day we will begin with an introduction to visual and theoretical references. Then we will then paint until mid-afternoon, at which point we will have a discussion about each participant’s work. The last day of the course the participants will make a self-directed painting for half of the day, after lunch we will do a crit on the work, in which everyone will receive comments from the group and have a chance to respond. -
BA (HONS) Contemporary Portraiture Deposit
Zoho: Academic Course £100.00BA (HONS) Contemporary Portraiture
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Introduction to Sculpture
Course Code: WC2104003 Tutor: Anthony Waters Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 6th & 7th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00This 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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Dynamic Figure Sculpture
Course Code: SC2104038 Tutor: Jessica Wetherly Course Dates: Monday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022 Days: 5 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner+ Fee: £335 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £335.00This course focuses on teaching students to use the human form to express emotion, energy and character through working on a series of sculptures. Students will focus on understanding how to use different forms and compositions to express the character of the pose and to understand subtlety in the choice in forms, textures and materials. This course offers students an opportunity to work with different materials, to try something a bit different and loosen up your sculptural techniques. It is suitable for beginners to advanced students. Our experienced tutor will show beginners a step-by-step approach to figure modelling, and will work with more advanced students to push their work forward in their own way. Working with small dynamic standing poses in Super Sculpey as well as two seated poses in clay. -
Drawing for Beginners
Course Code: SAT2104014 Tutor: Eleanor Bedlow Course Dates: Saturdays, 9th July - 27th August 2022 Days: 8 Times: 10.30am - 1pm 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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One Day Taster: Sculpture – 21st August
Course Code: TAS2104T03 Tutor: Farnoush Amini Course Dates: Sunday, 21st August 2022 Days: 1 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: 105 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £105.00This is a fun, day-long taster course in sculpting with clay and plaster for those who may be considering a longer evening or daytime course and want to try it out first.
Spend the morning with the joy of clay to create a small figure sculpture from a life model. In the afternoon mix plaster and other media to make your own creative sculpture. No need to worry if you have nothing in mind.
This is a great opportunity to combine these two basic sculpture skills and techniques. There will be the option to leave your clay sculpture for hollowing and firing for an additional fee and you are welcome to take home your plaster piece.Throughout the day the tutor will lead the class in practical demonstrations to help you get a feel for the medium and the way it can be manipulated into shape and form. We aim to foster self-certainty and an enjoyment of sculpting in a relaxed yet stimulating environment.
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Art History – French Art of the 19th Century (Romanticism to Symbolism)
Course Code: OC2201AH08 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 14th November - 12th December 2022 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £105 Location: Online £105.00France, by the 1800s was seen by many as the main centre for developments in the avant-garde art of the time. Walter Benjamin described Paris as ‘the capital of the 19th Century’, home to some of the most progressive artistic minds in history and a city determined to be at the forefront of artistic expression. As the Capital evolved politically, socially and culturally, its artists responded either enthusiastically or with reservation to these new changes. From the Napoleonic era to the Haussmanisation of Paris during the Second Empire and the rise of the bourgeoisie; artists including Édouard Manet were confronted with new sights and attitudes which became subjects for their work. Set against this progression was the Paris Salon, a bastion of academic traditions and at odds with radical artists. This course looks at key movements from Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
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Art History – European Modernism part 2 (Italian Futurism to Surrealism and later)
Course Code: OC2202AH10 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 27th February - 27th March 2023 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £105 Location: Online £105.00This era was marked by political upheavals including two World Wars. Course 2 will look at how artists responded to such catastrophes. Subjects not visible to the naked eye, such as the human psyche were explored in very different ways in both Abstraction and Surrealism. Dadaism, a protest against society and the futilities of war, gave us some of the most radical works in the history of art. Artists such as Picasso, who had spent the first decade of the Twentieth Century upending the conventions of art, would abandon such aims and instead call for a ‘return to order’, celebrating classical art. We will look in-depth at the key figures and styles which dominated European art in the first half of the 20th Century and consider how their efforts would ultimately transform art on a global level.
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Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 1
Course Code: OC2203AH11 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 17th April - 22nd May 2023 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £105 Location: Online £105.00This course traces the developments and trends, which dominated European art, from the dawn of the Renaissance in the early 15th Century, through to the first decades of the 19th Century when Romanticism came to the fore in both art and literature. We will explore the social, cultural and political factors, which contributed to the practices of painters and sculptors from a range of European locations. We will discover how many of these styles were often a reaction against those preceding them. Part 1 traces painting, sculpture and architecture from the Early Italian Renaissance to the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century.
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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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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: 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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Photopolymer and Photoetching
Course Code: SC2104PR97 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 8th - 11th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 9.45am - 4.45pm 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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Young Artists: Printmaking Techniques
Course Code: SC2104777 Tutor: Annabel Crowther Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 18th -21st July 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Ages 14 - 17 Fee: £275 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £275.00An inspiring four day course for ages 14-17 providing a skills-based experience and expert tuition in printmaking techniques. The programme is taught by specialist tutors who are also professional, practicing artists. Using different mark-making techniques, students will be taken through the basic processes of printmaking techniques. This is an ideal course for those studying arts subjects who wish to explore the traditional art form of printmaking, create new work for their portfolio, develop new techniques and skills, and further existing abilities in a professional art school environment.
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Drawing in Space – Wire Sculpture
Course Code: SC2104034 Tutor: Silvina Soria Course Dates: Monday - Wednesday, 25th - 27th July 2022 Days: 3 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £200 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £200.00In this NEW exciting course, you will be introduced to 3D drawing with the use of wire and steel rods. You will be taught welding and metal preparation techniques. With the help of experienced and skilled tutor Silvina Soria you will explore a variety of tools and techniques and develop your own design. Your experienced tutor will support you throughout the course in both group sessions and one-to-one support providing regular feedback, critique and constructive advice. No previous experience is required.
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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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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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Lino Etching Weekend
Course Code: WC2104PR71 Tutor: Stella Yarrow, Jackie Smith Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 20th & 21st August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.15am - 5.15pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £175 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £175.00This course is ideal for attendees keen to further develop their relief printmaking skills. It teaches a more gestural approach to lino, combining the classical skill of carving a lino block with a contemporary approach to etching its surface with caustic soda. Bringing together painterly textures and graphic forms in a colourful multi-block print.
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One Day Taster: Monoprint – 23rd July
Course Code: TAS2104T06 Tutor: Temsuyanger Longkumer Course Dates: Saturday, 23rd July 2022 Days: 1 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £105 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £105.00This is a fun day-long taster course in monoprint for those who may be considering a longer evening or daytime course and are wondering how much they will enjoy it. Students will be introduced to various monoprint tools and methods. The course fee covers all materials needed.
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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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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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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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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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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 Workshop
Course Code: SC2104PR03 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Monday - Thursday, 15th - 18th August 2022 Days: 4 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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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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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James TempleLinocut Masterclass with Jamie Temple
Course Code: WC2104PR85 Tutor: Jamie Temple Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 27th & 28th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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. Jamie Temple is an artist and printmaker with a particular focus on linocut. On this course students will learn the essential steps to linocut with Jamie leading the group through the planning, carving and printing stages of multiplate printing.
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Weekend Creative Mix
Course Code: WC2104015 Tutor: Farnoush Amini, Mercedes Balle, Temsüyanger Longkumer Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 30th & 31st July 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £180 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £180.00This stimulating and exciting weekend course 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. Over the two days, 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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Experimental Etching
Course Code: WC2104PR99 Tutor: Frederic Morris Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm 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.
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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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Introduction to Painting
Course Code: WC2104013 Tutor: Helen Stone Course Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 20th & 21st August 2022 Days: 2 Times: 10.00am – 5.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £180 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 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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Fundamentals of Portraiture Stage 1 – Online course
Course Code: OC2201018 Tutor: Thomas Golunski Course Dates: Mondays, 3rd October - 31st October 2022 Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 8.00pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £145 Location: Online £145.00Experience the magic of portrait painting. Beginning by simplifying the approach to portraiture, learn the fundamentals of line, measurement techniques and working in oils, to then progress to use tone to create 3D form and colour. Over two weeks, towards the end of the course, you will use yourself as a model to create a self-portrait with focus on the fundamentals skills you have developed, further considering when to be truthful to nature and when to reference. The perfect way for beginners to start in portrait painting.
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Fundamentals of Drawing Stage 1 – Online Course
Course Code: OC2201014 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Thursdays, 6th October - 3rd November 2022 Days: 5 Times: 6.15pm - 8.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £145 Location: Online £145.00If you have always wanted to draw but have not known where to start, this course is for you. Although aimed at beginners, this course is also useful for those who want to recap the fundamentals. Over five weeks, you will learn, develop and overcome doubts in your ability through learning the key techniques: mark making, measurement, perspective, tone, line and composition. Filled with ample opportunities to practice and improve, this course will ensure you have gained a practical understanding of the fundamentals to build confidence, working with art historical references and observational studies culminating in a finished composition.
This course is part of our three stage Fundamentals of Drawing series. Interested in deepening your understanding? Explore Fundamentals of Drawing Stage 2
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Sketching Perspective – Online Course
Course Code: OC2201041 Tutor: Illugi Eysteinsson Course Dates: Thursdays, 15th September - 13th October 2022 Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 8.00pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £145 Location: Online £145.00From the innovator, Brunelleschi to the master of illusion, Escher, perspective – one’s point of view – can be argued as the most fundamental principle of sketching. This brand new course focuses on the importance of perspective and spatial perception as the basis of realism, helping you develop and learn the laws of geometry to create form, dimension, distance and space within your works.
With a focus on producing quick freehand sketches of buildings, rooms, furniture, and stairs, using plans, elevation, and axonometric drawings, master both one and two-point perspective techniques. This course is suitable for all levels, those experienced artists who are looking to strengthen their fundamentals of drawing, as well as beginners.
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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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Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 2
Course Code: OC2203AH12 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 5th June - 3rd July 2023 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £105 Location: Online £105.00In Part 2 we will examine the French Rococo of the 1700s and its spread across other European centres. British artists at this time had a very different approach to the subjects they depicted, influenced by the dramatically changing world around them. Neoclassicism, an antidote to the frivolity of Rococo, coincided with the excavation of major ancient sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. The course finishes with an exploration of Romanticism, a European-wide movement unlike any style which had gone before it and one which celebrated the natural world but also visionary scenes of imagination, heroism and tragedy.
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One Day Taster: Ceramics – 14th August
Course Code: TAS2104T04 Tutor: Adele Williams Course Dates: Sunday, 14th August 2022 Days: 1 Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £105 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR £105.00This is a fun, day-long taster course in hand built ceramics for those who may be considering a longer evening or Saturday course and would like to try it out first. Throughout the day the tutor will lead the class in practical demonstrations to help you to learn the various processes involved in working with clay by using classic hand built ceramic techniques such as pinching and coiling as well as basic finishing techniques. We aim to foster self-certainty and enjoyment of the media within this workshop and offer a relaxed yet stimulating environment. Please note that at the end of the day there will be the possibility to choose to have your work kiln fired.
