Visual Arts
Art is the sensual medium of combining colour and texture to produce things of beauty and utility. Art is about the inner vision being unleashed into outer expressions be that through appreciating the art of others or creating your very own art works.
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Intermediate Watercolour Techniques - Enhancing Skills, Composition, and Expressive Application
<p>Take your watercolour skills to the next level with this 8-week intermediate course. Designed for learners with basic experience, this program delves into advanced techniques like colour blending,
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Drawing for Beginners
<p>In an easy-to-grasp step-by-step manner, this course seeks to systematically outline and guide you through some of the fundamental principles that lead to a comprehensive proficiency in drawing. We
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Birds and Botanicals
<p>Discover the intricacies of painting a bird and botanical subject in watercolour, with an easy and fast process. Learn to transfer a supplied image on to watercolour paper and how to colour mix and
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Life Drawing in Oiled Charcoal - Beginners to Intermediate
<p>Following in the footsteps of great Master draughtsman, like the Italian Bolognese artists Guercino and the Carracci, learn to draw the life model in the highly sensual medium of oiled charcoal. A
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Calligraphy for Beginners: 14th Century Renassaince Gothic
<p>Learn this lovely script that evolved from the early 1300’s Renaissance. Learn with a chisel-shaped nib and refine your technique based on letter-construction, pen angles and spatial awareness.
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A Celebration of 400 Years of Women Artists
<p>In every century there have been outstanding women artists who have achieved a reputation that has tested time and sat well-earned, alongside their male colleagues. Often their life stories are
...Approximately 5 hours
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From French Royalty to Empire - Art and decorative elegance from Louis XIV's Versailles to Napoleon
<p>French monarchs managed their images as carefully as any self-branded celebrity today. How did Louis XIV use the artisans and artists of the day through his patronage to enhance and dazzle his
...Approximately 4 hours
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Portraits of Russia: Rublëv, Pushkin, Turgenev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
<p>This course, focussed on the life and work of some of Russia’s most outstanding personalities, will begin with the work of Andrey Rublëv, Russia’s most famous icon painter, and his circle, and the
...Approximately 6 hours
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Kenwood House, London - Art & Storied Past
<p>Kenwood House, on Hampstead Heath, is famed for its magnificent art collection and storied past. The art includes paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Gainsborough, and many Tudor marvels. The
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Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
<p>This class will show you how to employ a range of traditional artist’s materials in combination with one another. The class will greatly benefit anyone wanting to come to grips with the breadth of
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