About this course
Exploring Mixed Media is an introduction to different ways of creating drawn and painted images and will give you the opportunity to explore a range of experimental mixed media techniques including collage, pen and inks, frottage, typographic printing, and painting and stenciling.
During the course we will be focusing on using these techniques in a range of ways to build up fragmented or abstracted compositions. We will be working both in black and white and colour and the key approach to media will be experimentation! Some experience of drawing and painting is useful, but not essential as each week we will explore a different process (or processes in combination). It will be fun!
You will learn about how you can use these media and techniques creatively through looking at and discussing other artists and designers work and by demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition.
By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in a range of experimental, creative techniques, produced some effective developmental images and gained skills for future art and design work.
What will learners achieve by the end of the course?
You will be able to:
Discuss how other artists and designers have used experimental techniques in their work to explore ideas.
Experiment successfully with text and printmaking techniques to explore ideas.
Use painting and stenciling techniques to explore colour, markmaking, layering and composition.
Experiment with a range of mixed media confidently to produce images.
Use vocational language confidently to explain your own work.
Booking your place and fee information
Booking your place and fee information
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https www.inspireculture.org.uk skills learning funding your courses
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To enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
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West Midlands
West Yorkshire
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