Studio Art Club: Transform Your Sketchpad

Sketchpad Transformations Part 2 is a new exciting 6 week course.

It is designed to inspire your creativity, develop ideas and open your mind to new artistic approaches.

You will transform a bland and empty sketchpad into a rich and creative journal through drawing and painting which will offer a range of possibilities ripe for development.

Each week you will build a new page and be introduced to a different media, technique or subject touching upon the work of artists who have worked on similar themes.

Materials
Participants will need to purchase an A4 hard backed sketchpad (not spiral bound) containing good quality cartridge paper and bring it to the first session.

Appropriate media should be brought to forthcoming sessions, guidance given by tutor during the preceding session. During Part 1 we created a rich variety of working surfaces in our sketchpad. However new starters will have the opportunity to do this too in session 1

Wed 1 Nov Paintbox
Learn about composition and colour in this fun watercolour painting

Wed 8 Nov Coffee cup and beans
Using coffee as our painting medium we will look at depicting a shiny surface using tone.

Wed 15 Nov Tulips
After examining the photographs of Peter Arnold and paintings of Georgia O Keefe we will depict a tulip using acrylics.

Wed 22 Nov Living Jewels
Using oil pastel we will learn how to create a brightly coloured iridescent insect.

Wed 29 Nov Seeds and seed heads
Using your media of choice create exciting studies from a variety of objects.

Wed 6 Dec Mushrooms
An opportunity to explore this subject matter using acrylic paint/coloured pencil or pastel.

1 Nov - 6 Dec
11am - 2pm
£160 for 6 week course