Art Courses Brixton
Art courses near Brixton: The New School of Art offers a diverse and exciting array of art classes for beginners and established artists in easy reach of Brixton. Our centres in Lewes, Brighton and London host courses in drawing, oils painting and art history led by inspiring tutors, all highly regarded artists and art historians.
Brixton is an inspiring and diverse centre for the Arts. Not only established artists but also many emerging creatives call Brixton home. When considering taking an art course, Brixton is the natural choice. The New School of Art presents a range of courses, all led by high regarded and well established art historians and artists who offer continual guidance and support to their students throughout their course.
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Beginners Art Classes Brixton
Our art courses have been designed with artists of all levels in mind, from beginner to professional.Regardless of whether you are just beginning, having some fun or developing your artistic skills, our tutors will be able to work with you at your level.By aiming to ensure a maximum class size of 10 or 12, we are able to offer small, intimate Beginner art classes and a tutor on hand to give you the individual attention you need.Both individual and group work is involved in our Beginner art lessons.You will be given the chance to both to discuss your specific needs one on one with your tutor and to share ideas with other students.
Advanced Art Classes Brixton
Our Advanced art courses in the greater Brixton area are ideal for professional artists who are looking for more experience, depth or focus on the work they already create.As practising artists, all of our tutors can give technical support and provide insight into the industry as it stands at the moment.In the Advanced art class you will be surrounded by like minded artists who wish to define and develop their own practice and challenge their skills and knowledge.We realise that as working professionals it can be hard to juggle your responsibilities and taking part in a course, so we have timetables which can accommodate your busy schedule.
Fine Art Courses Brixton
For a broader overview of fine art, the New School of Art offers a Fine Art course in the greater Brixton area.By providing an introduction to fine art practice – including drawing and painting– the tutors will help students focus and critically reflect upon their work and painting.As it is led by professional artists, this programme gives students the opportunity of benefitting from class discussions, workshops and one to one tutorials.During the course, students will be able to develop their skills and understand how their course tutor works.
Life Drawing Classes Brixton
We also offer Life Drawing classes in the greater Brixton area, which are very popular.We maintain that thorough study in drawing is important to all figurative work and this underlines our beliefs as an Art school.The class involves drawing the life model in a variety of poses.The Life Drawing classes allow artists to explore their creativity and practice their draftmanship in a focused and supportive environment.Tutors will be available to give guidance and provide instruction.No matter what your level of ability is, this programme will develop your skills.Whether you are looking for tuition and direction, or a chance to work on your drawing in a more social setting, this class will be able to provide that for you.
Landscape Painting Courses Brixton
We offer 2 day Landscape Painting workshops in the greater Brixton area which are led by artist Louise Balaam NEAC, member of the New English Art Club.This course will show you Louise’s work and painting style.The emphasis will be on acquiring the skills of working quickly, freely and dynamically.Weather permitting, students will draw outside, working on simplifying, abstraction and working with pencil and watercolour, before moving onto painting in the studio.Students are free to create several paintings over the two days while Louise is on hand to provide advice and individual attention.Students can look at some of Louise’s sketchbooks while their own sketchbooks will be used as reference and for inspiration.On the second day everyone’s work will be critiqued by the group.
Portrait Painting Brixton
Tim Benson VPROI, Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, presents our Portrait Painting Masterclass, a 2 day workshop in the greater Brixton area.During this course, students will become familiar with the artist, his work and the philosophy behind it.On the first day, after a demonstration by Tim, you will proceed to create small, quick oil sketches which focus more on tone, colour and form than detail.Students will produce a large painting on the second day, with the added difficulty of not adding detail.Students’ work and the choices they made during its creation will be discussed and analysed during this process to discover how to create tension and interest in the composition.The course will end with a one on one critique of the student’s work.