Visual Arts & Crafts Courses & Workshops

This course is open to everybody who would like to learn the techniques of creative hand embroidery. You do not need to be able to draw to enjoy this course.

Techniques of transferring images onto different textiles will be shown and you will learn a variety of styles for hand embroidery. The design element of the course will encourage you to explore images for stitch inspiration from your own photographs, found images or from drawings. You will be able to produce attractive hand embroidered textile images with simple designs that can be framed and presented in decorative ways.

Tutor:

Sophie Long

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This course is designed to help beginners and improvers listen and trust their own intuition, turn off the noise of social media and self-doubt. Open up and just be creative. On our journey we will design and make lots of exciting images whilst exploring multimedia techniques such as mark making, printing, painting, collage and colour planning to create an A3 artwork.

Tutor:

Nicolene Grigg

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Course project (April start): Experimental Colour and Texture

Creative Sketchbook is a drawing course with a mixed media approach. Sketchbooks are used widely as a reference tool by art students and artists alike and are essential to develop your creativity. Learn how to use a sketchbook effectively and develop approaches on how to record your own art activities.

This course will develop your understanding of colour theory and how to use colour expressively. We will look in particular at the Fauves. Different methods of depicting textures and using line in more abstract ways will also be explored. The course will first focus on painting then on developing your mark-making range.

This will be an online course delivered on Zoom. Visual reference and written handouts will be emailed at least a day in advance of each class. It would be very useful to have a colour printer. If not, please contact the Landmark well in advance of the start date, so that the tutor can post any essential reference images.

Course project (June start): Summer Drawing With a Travel Sketchbook

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Tutor:

Emily Burton

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Course project: Summer Drawing With a Travel Sketchbook

Creative Sketchbook is a drawing course with a mixed media approach. Sketchbooks are used widely as a reference tool by art students and artists alike and are essential to develop your creativity. Learn how to use a sketchbook effectively and develop approaches for recording your own art activities.

The project for this course teaches you how to use a sketchbook outdoors to record urban and rural landscapes, people, animals and objects. You will learn a range of approaches in different media and how to use a sketchbook confidently in a public environment and during travel journeys. Weather permitting we will draw outside for one or two sessions.

Tutor:

Emily Burton

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A course which focuses on drawing the head – developing a greater understanding of proportions and capturing character. You will learn about the architecture of the head, neck and facial features and how the underlying structure influences the surface form. By the end of the course you should be able to depict the head from different viewpoints using a selection of different materials and approaches.

Due to social distancing restrictions we will not be working from a portrait model for this course. However, the course is aimed at preparing you to draw intelligently from a real person and will be focused on understanding the head as a three-dimensional structure. Source material will include skulls, carefully selected photographs and the work of other artists.

Tutor:

Emily Burton

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Training the Photographer’s Eye – Techniques for taking striking photographs

The Voyage of Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes

Marcel Proust

We are delighted to be delivering this photography course via Zoom.

A creative photography course which develops the photographer’s ability to see the world with ‘new eyes’. Participants learn to develop their skills of observation and curiosity, seeing the details, capturing the mood, using colour and the nuance of light.

This course is perfect for those who want to explore their creative vision, develop a strong understanding of their camera equipment and make the most of its features. The content is designed for beginners and intermediate photographers and is suitable for digital and film photography. It is ideal if your camera has some manual functions for greater creative control.

As we are unable to meet in person, Jackie will offer students extra email and telephone support as necessary. We hope that this helps in filling the gap of not meeting in person for this course.

Tutor:

Jackie Rado

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Course project: Exploring Landscape Painting

Explore Landscape sketching and painting techniques including both studio studies and ourdoor work.

Designed for all levels, core skills will be covered on how to develop preliminary sketches into paintings.

Tutor:

Bob Meecham

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Course Project: Creative Concepts in Watercolour

The aim of this course is to develop solid watercolour skills whilst looking at the practice and themes of contemporary as well as traditional artists. The course will look in further detail at 2 artists during each module and encourage students to adopt a creative thinking practice with their own work.

The artists referenced are William Tillyer and Rebecca Hind, and the course will allow you to become familiar with their conceptual influence and how they can inform your own work.

An inherent feature of watercolour is translucency and freshness. You will develop a good understanding of colour theory by applying glazing methods and by overlaying washes. This exciting course provides you with an element of art historical reference whilst learning watercolour skills.

This course is suitable for intermediate/advanced students.

Tutor:

Emily Burton

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The aim of the course is to develop your painting and drawing techniques in Botanical Art with an emphasis on accurate depiction. Flowers, foliage and plants are observed whilst Marcia teaches through step-by-step demonstrations. You will learn through practical exercises and in exchanging ideas with your tutor and other students. Marcia Hughes will also encourage you to work towards taking part in exhibitions.

This course is suitable for people with some experience of botanical art.

Tutor:

Marcia Hughes

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