Portraiture for Beginners - West Bridgford Methodist Church - Adult Learning

About this course

The Portraiture for beginners course will introduce you to the skills needed to begin making portraits. We will be exploring different ways of creating drawn and painted portraits, using a range of different techniques and media. Some experience of drawing and painting is useful, but not essential as throughout the course you will be building on and extending your existing skills. Each week will have a different creative focus, exploring the formal elements of line, mark making, tone, proportion, form and colour through a range of different drawing, painting and printing techniques, developed from observation. You will also have the chance to experiment with a range of media (including pencils, oil pastels, inks, and acrylic paints) to develop your personal skills further. You will learn about the tradition of portraiture and self-portraits, different drawing and painting techniques and how to use formal elements and media effectively through looking at and discussing other artists work and by demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition. By the end of the course, everyone will have explored and gained confidence in using a range of drawing and painting techniques to produce portraits 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 have created portraits and self-portraits using formal elements (line, tone, markmaking, form, proportion and colour). Use line drawing to describe shape. Use tone to describe form, surface and contrast. Use colour to explore shape, form and contrast. Produce observational portraits and self-portraits using a range of drawing, printing and painting media. Use art and design language confidently to describe your own work and others.

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 Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course. 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 West of England West Midlands West Yorkshire