Drawing and Painting

Participation in our evening classes provides far more than the opportunity to learn new skills but also numerous benefits to our mental health and wellbeing. Evening classes are known to lower stress levels, improve confidence, increase social integration, contribute to personal growth and lifelong learning to name just a few advantages.

Whether you are a beginner, improver or seasoned artist, this course is designed to support and encourage all abilities in drawing and painting to get those creative juices flowing. Delivered by an experienced tutor and practising artist, the focus is not only on learning new techniques and drawing/painting styles, but you will also have time to pursue your own goals with structured guidance from the tutor.

In the first few weeks of term, you will take part in warm up techniques for drawing, develop your observational drawing skills, as well as exploring and refining drawing techniques. A variety of mediums will be used such as pencil, charcoal, graphite, pen and ink.

A natural progression will then be made into painting, discovering, or re-discovering for some, the qualities and attributes of different paints, techniques and styles with time for those that wish, to develop their own drawing/painting projects.

Essential materials needed:

• A4 minimum drawing sketch paper or pad, plus thicker watercolour or acrylic paper if developing into paint.
• A range of graded pencils, eraser, sharpener and liners.
• Charcoal and coloured wet or dry mediums depending on preference ie: coloured pencils, pastels, watercolour, acrylic.

Your tutor will regularly review your activities and offer you support. You will be encouraged to identify small, realistic and achievable goals to work towards throughout the course with focus on starting to develop your own artistic style. All within a warm, friendly, learning environment.