Art: life drawing & portraiture courses

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Develop a keen focus on structure, line, features and expression in traditional still-life drawing, observational painting or exploring the beauty of still-life in new mediums such as moulding and sculpting.

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ColourWheel art classes for adults - Maidenhead

ColourWheel art classes for adults - Maidenhead

In-person course

Classes are held in lovely venues - Norden Farm in Maidenhead on Tuesdays. Classes are fun and friendly, a place to learn and make new friends. There are 3 hour morning and afternoon classes to fit in with student’s schedules. You receive tuition and guidance from our excellent tutors allowing you to produce beautiful art using a variety of mediums over a 14 week period. We start with pencil drawing, setting the building blocks of skills for the course. We then work with charcoal, coloured inks, pastels both soft and...

ColourWheel art classes for adults - Godalming

ColourWheel art classes for adults - Godalming

In-person course

Classes are held in the idyllic setting of Clock Barn Hall on the outskirts of Godalming on Wednesday's. Classes are fun and friendly, a place to learn and make new friends. There are 3 hour morning and afternoon classes to fit in with student’s schedules. You receive tuition and guidance from our excellent tutors allowing you to produce beautiful art using a variety of mediums over a 14 week period. We start with pencil drawing, setting the building blocks of skills for the course. We then work with charcoal, coloured...

Animated life drawing with Aaron Jacob Jones

Animated life drawing with Aaron Jacob Jones

In-person course

And now for something completely different! Meet Aaron Jacob Jones, a London based artist, tutor, animator and live illustrator who has developed an innovative way of drawing for the digital age! Animated life drawing to be precise – they really take your breath away when you see them for the first time! (Just to clarify - His creations are animated but will not show on Craft Courses gallery! Have a look on our website or social media to see the moving images!) Aaron developed the technique himself to combine his...

ColourWheel art classes for adults - Windsor

ColourWheel art classes for adults - Windsor

In-person course

Classes are held in lovely venues - Windsor Race Course on Thursdays. Classes are fun and friendly, a place to learn and make new friends. There are 3 hour morning and afternoon classes to fit in with student’s schedules. You receive tuition and guidance from our excellent tutors allowing you to produce beautiful art using a variety of mediums over a 14 week period. We start with pencil drawing, setting the building blocks of skills for the course. We then work with charcoal, coloured inks, pastels both soft and oil,...

Portrait painting in oils

Portrait painting in oils

In-person course

Hampshire - Next course on 12th July 2020

The workshop is about creating an emotive connection to your sitter, involving the technical side of oil painting through colour mixing, exploring form and colour theory. It is a figurative workshop using natural and expressive colours with the aim is to achieve a finished or near finished painting. We will look at how oil paints works and help you to develop a personal style and explore new approaches. This is not an atelier workshop but I will be referencing historical methods. We will be concentrating on painting but some drawing...

Drawing from life with Jake Spicer

Drawing from life with Jake Spicer

In-person course

Immense satisfaction, joy and fulfilment can come from drawing. Even if it isn’t your artistic medium of choice, the act of regularly putting pencil to paper can enhance many aspects of your creative pursuits. And yet, many people don’t draw because self-doubt tells them they can’t. This is such a waste! It is with great pleasure that we welcome Jake Spicer to the studio for a courses that are dedicated to drawing the human form. So come, be taken under the wing of one of the UK’s most accomplished drawing...

Pencil portrait drawing for beginners, East Yorkshire with tea and cake!

Pencil portrait drawing for beginners, East Yorkshire with tea and cake!

In-person course

Pencil Portrait Drawing for Beginners Have you ever fancied learning to draw but never had the courage to give it a go? Well this is the workshop is for you. It is aimed at beginners and you will be tutored step by step to draw your own pencil portrait. You will receive an introduction to the basic tools and techniques including line, shading and colour. We have chosen an image of a charismatic man with a good range of light and dark. This is the perfect image to try the...

Watercolour portraits

Watercolour portraits

In-person course

I am really excited about this workshop. Capturing people in watercolour, is a great way of producing a lively portrait. We will look at how to pose people, take photos to work from and then go on to paint portraits. This day is all about painting, rather than drawing so we will be working from photos not a live model and we will explore transfer techniques - if Vermeer used the Camera Obscura, then we are allowed to use modern equivalents (in my opinion). We will explore both layering to...

Online Life Drawing (monthly)

Online Life Drawing (monthly)

Live online tuition

Our online life drawing classes give you the opportunity to draw from a life model, posing in real time, alongside a group of other artists. Although we can all draw from reference images, the Covid-19 pandemic has separated us from our communities; online life drawing provides us with a shared experience so that although we are still working from a screen, we can draw alone, together. On the last Wednesday of each month, we run a special online life drawing class. It is free, but only accessible to everybody who...

Online Life Drawing (weekly)

Online Life Drawing (weekly)

Live online tuition

Our online life drawing classes give you the opportunity to draw from a life model, posing in real time, alongside a group of other artists. Although we can all draw from reference images, the Covid-19 pandemic has separated us from our communities; online life drawing provides us with a shared experience so that although we are still working from a screen, we can draw alone, together. Every Wednesday, we hold an hour-long untutored life drawing session online. It is free, but only accessible to people who are 'Life Drawing Tier'...

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