Still Life Painting and Drawing - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

About this course

In the Still-Life Painting and Drawing 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 and 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

You will need to bring:

• An apron or big shirt

• B, 2B, 3B pencils, rubber

• Range of paintbrushes

• Scissors

• Charcoal or charcoal pencils

• Watercolours (if you have them)

• Set of acrylic paints

• 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)

• Palette

Suggested reading:

1) Still-life : techniques and tutorials for the complete beginner / Susie Johns. Library catalogue.

2) Easy acrylic painting: beginner tutorials for small still-lifes / Jennifer Funnell. Library catalogue.

Booking your place and fee information

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

•    Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
•    Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• Greater London Authority
•    North East Combined Authority
•    South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
•    Tees Valley Combined Authority
•    West Midlands Combined Authority
•    West of England Combined Authority
•    West Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
•    York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Hull and East Yorkshire
•    Greater Lincolnshire
•    Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
•    Cornwall Council
•    Lancashire Combined County Authority
•    Buckinghamshire

• Warwickshire

• Surrey

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.