courses
Courses at City Arts
New Courses Due in 2018
PAST COURSES
Manga Drawing course for Kids with Donna Lewis
3, 10, 17, 24 June & 1 July 2017
10 am to 12:30 pm – for five sessions
£100 (£80 concessions)
A five week course covering Manga drawing, techniques and pens. This course is designed for beginners and children with experience of drawing Manga. Each week, we will focus on different features and characters, and then apply these to your work-in-progress. In the final week you will create a cartoon storyboard, using all of the elements and skills you have acquired during the course
‘Poetry in Print’ with Donna Lewis and Isabel Carmona
Friday 7 July: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Sat 8 & Sun 9 July: 10 am to 4.30 pm
£180 including all materials (£150 concs)
Refreshments inc, but bring lunch
A three day exciting and dynamic workshop, in which you will write poems based on your own ideas, make Concertina and Japanese bound books and decorate them, and create linocuts to illustrate the poems in your book.
You then get to take away your own “Poetry in Print”.
All materials provided. Bring your own love of words.
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Drawing Mediums for Adults with Isabel Carmona
30 May, 6, 13, 27 June, 4 & 11 July 2017 10 am to 12:30 pm for six days
£180 (£150 concessions)
Each day we will explore one medium in earnest: pencil, charcoal, drawing pen, ink pen, biro, colour pencil. Practice working with line and tone, hatch or scribble. A fun, practical workshop for those who want to have a go with normal drawing tools and do more. You will receive a sketchbook to collect your drawings and other materials needed will be provided for the class
Exploration of the portrait for adults with Isabel Carmona
1, 8, 15, 29 June, 6 & 13 July 2017
10 am to 12:30 pm – for six days
£180 (£150 concessions)
Find different ways of portraying people, ourselves or others, in various media:pen, pencil, watercolour, marker pen. Lose the fear of not doing it right. We will seek expression, fun, loose lines, tone and colour. You will receive a sketchbook to collect your portraits and other materials needed will be provided for the class
Manga Drawing Course for Kids with Donna Lewis
Tuesday 1, 8, 15 & Thursday 24, 31 August
10am – 12.30pm
Kids 10+
£100 including drawing pack
A 5wk course covering Manga drawing techniques and equipment. This course is designed for beginners and children with experience of drawing Manga. Designed for beginners and children with drawing experience.
Each week you will focus on different feactures and characters, and then apply these to your work in progress.
Sketching the City with Isabel Carmona
Thursday 10, 17, 31 August
6.30pm – 8.30pm
£75 including drawing pack
£25 single session
Refreshments included
Lose your fear of sketching outdoors by drawing in the company of others.
Explore ways of capturing the atmosphere of the City of Newbury, whilst sketching outdoors. Try out watercolour, pen and ink and mixed media techniques.
During these sessions we will sketch various views of Argyle and Hampton roads and record the beauty of the street.
