You’ll continue working with materials such as pencil, charcoal and paint, while making more deliberate decisions about how you use them. There is an emphasis on refining and resolving your work, as well as understanding how your ideas develop through making, reflection and discussion.
You’ll work increasingly independently in and outside of the studio environment, with guidance to help you think critically about your process, pace and outcomes. Testing ideas and sketchbooks remain an important aspect for recording development and reflecting on your progress.
You’ll also continue to explore artists and visual traditions—past and present—to help place your work in a wider creative context and inform your decisions.
This course is ideal if you have attended previous courses and want to deepen your practice, while still remaining open and supportive for those joining with some confidence and curiosity.
Across the course, you may explore:
• Core drawing and painting skills: quality of line, mark making, and a range of drawing and painting techniques
• Form and structure: two- and three-dimensional forms, anatomy and observational approaches
• Composition and visual language: rhythm, movement, balance and composition
• Materials and processes: a wider range of materials, painting techniques, grounds, and studio practice (including cleaning and care of tools)
• Colour and paint: colour relationships, mixing and more personal, expressive use of paint
• Subjects and themes: still life, plants, buildings, landscape and abstraction, developed over time
• Space and depth: perspective and spatial construction within more resolved work
• Art and context: art movements and major artists (historical and contemporary) to inform and situate your practice
