Still Life Drawing and Painting - West Bridgford Methodist Church - Adult Learning

About this course

In the Still-Life Drawing and Painting course we will be exploring different ways of creating drawn and painted images from every day, familiar objects, 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 focus exploring the formal elements of line, texture, tone, colour and pattern creatively through a range of different drawing and painting techniques, developed from observation.

You will also have the chance to experiment with a range of media (including pencils, watercolours, and acrylic paints ) to develop your personal skills further. You will learn about the tradition of still-life, 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 with some essential drawing and painting techniques, produced finished 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 have used line, tone and colour to produce creative still-life images. Use line drawing to describe shape, pattern and texture. Use tone to describe form, space and contrast. Use colour to explore shape, space and contrast. Produce observational drawings and paintings from selected still-life subject matter using a range of media. Use art and design language and vocabulary to describe your own work

What you will need to bring to the course:

Apron or big shirt.

B, 2B, 3B pencils, rubber–WH Smiths, Amazon.

Range of paintbrushes- pack from The Works, WH Smith or Amazon.

Scissors.

Charcoal or charcoal pencils. Hobbycraft, Amazon.

Watercolours (if you have them) The Range, Hobbycraft, Amazon.

Set of acrylic paints, The Works, The Range, Hobbycraft, Amazon.

Water pot.

A3 cartridge paper pad (at least 140g paper) – (example Daler Rowney A3 cartridge pad yellow and red cover, or Seawhites cartridge paper pad) The Range, Hobbycraft, WH Smith Amazon.

Palette- The Works, Hobbycraft, The Range, Amazon.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive 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 funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• 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

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.