Drawing and Painting
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We have a huge variety of drawing and painting courses to offer.
- Drawing
- Painting
- Illustration
- Digital Design
- Printmaking
- Ceramics
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Pastels and Watercolour
- Diploma
- Art and Design for Young People
- Specialist Courses
Please contact the school if you require further details or a course description.
Email: psad@enablelc.org
Here are some of the courses we offer at PSAD:
Book Illustration
This course covers all aspects of illustration and aims to enable students to respond to a variety of briefs, working to deadlines. The areas covered include editorial, picture book illustration, storyboards, cards etc.
Botanic Drawing and Painting (beginners)
This is a course in Botanical Illustration is for the beginner to intermediate Botanical illustrator and continuing students of botanical art and illustration.
Drawing and Watercolour Painting: Flora, Fauna & Natural Forms (all levels)
Botanical drawing and painting is a creative art form and a means of recording natural structures. Working from plants and flowers you will be introduced to careful observational painting and drawing. Exploring working with form, line, tone, texture, colour and water colour techniques. A range of plants and flowers will be the subject of this studio based class each week.
Through group and one to one tuition, demonstrations and looking at images from other artists.
Drawing and Painting
The course is suitable for all students who wish to improve painting techniques and drawing skills. The course will concentrate on landscape, figure and still life compositions.
Drawing (students with some experience)
Using a variety of materials you will explore different forms of description and expression. Subject matter will range from domestic ‘still life’ objects, food, plants and the human figure, through to space, place and movement. Each week will focus on a particular theme with exercises in exploring ways we see and experience the world and the use of the drawn mark to record that experience. We will discuss the work as a group at the end of each session. Throughout each term we will look at the work of different artists, discussing the many and varied ways in which we can draw..
Using a variety of materials you will explore different forms of description and expression.
Drawing into Watercolour and Gouache
This course aims to develop your drawing abilities further, which in turn will underpin both your painting in watercolour and gouache.
Experimental Art and Media (all levels)
This course has two aims. The first is to give you the knowledge and confidence to work with a range of different core materials – not only in drawing and painting, but also in experimental techniques including collage, mixed media, photography, printmaking and film. The second is to help you explore your own ideas and to help you develop a personal visual language. A key part of this will be to give you the skills to develop ideas, research them, plan a body of work and bring it to a successful conclusion.
Introduction to Drawing and Painting
It is suitable for beginners and also for students with some experience who would welcome a structured refresher course. The course can be taken a term at a time or as a three term programme.
Autumn term: Introduction to drawing and painting (acrylics) 50:50 drawing to painting.
Spring term: Introduction to oil painting. 80:20 amount of painting to drawing.
Summer term: Oil painting – city & landscapes. 70:30 painting to drawing. A chance to develop oil painting further.
Life and Figure Drawing (all levels)
This is a wide-ranging, structured life drawing course suitable for all levels and especially for those who have general drawing skills but have not drawn the figure very much.
Life Drawing
This is a wide-ranging, structured life drawing course suitable for all levels and especially for those who have general drawing skills but have not drawn the figure very much. This class will look at the broader context of the practice of life drawing. So in addition to working from the nude, with attention to basic anatomy, we will study the clothed figure, observing the fall and tension of the clothing, and placing the model in the surrounding context. The course will include work on individual portraiture, together with consideration of groups of figures, their interaction and spatial context, and compositional ideas. The emphasis throughout is on close observation.
Life Drawing Pay As You Go (PAYG)
Oil Painting (Intermediate)
The course is suitable for students with some experience in oil painting. The course has two aims: to broaden and develop your painting techniques, including traditional and contemporary processes and materials; and to help you to begin to develop a personal voice both in your painting style and in the ideas you aim to explore in your work. The course will be project-based. Projects will usually start with some sessions that focus on a particular technique or painting process, followed by sessions in which you are creating your own response to a theme with personal guidance from the tutor.
Painting and Drawing (all levels)
This class offers students who already have some painting & drawing experience the opportunity to extend to develop their skills, knowledge and approaches through the use of different media in particular OIL PAINTS*. Each terms work is structured around a general theme, for example ‘Landscapes real & imagined’. Initial work may include drawing in various media including collage. The balance of painting to drawing varies each term.
Painting with Gouache
Those with some previous experience of working with either water colour, acrylic or oils who wish to explore a new medium. Learn to use the vibrant and versatile medium of gouache paint – a medium used by artists such as Matisse, John Piper, Paul Klee and David Hockney. You will be learn to use gouache techniques and materials, build up your confidence in using the medium and explore the diversity of gouache by taking inspiration from some of the techniques of established gouache artists.
Portrait Drawing (all levels)
You will learn to identify the skeletal structure of the head and assess its anatomical proportions. You will learn how to take proportional measurements and judge angles and planes. You will consider facial type, individual proportion, body language, particularity and expression as other vital ingredients in the mix. This course is a useful preparation for a portrait painting course, or for life drawing and painting classes.
Portrait : Drawing the Head (students with some experience)
The emphasis of the course will be on structure and anatomy and ways of understanding and describing this, through close observation of the model. You will not be studying colour on this course. You will work from live models as well as skulls, casts, yourselves and each other. You will explore different media as useful tools to convey various responses. You will draw at different speeds and explore the use of caricature.