Painting and the creative imagination

Course

In London

£ 289 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Explore the richness of painting and the imagination through a variety of practical methods and guided exercises to access and develop your imagination. The aim of the course is to step aside from formal understanding and to engage directly with your perception, energy and imagination. This course complements, and is a valuable addition to, more formal drawing courses.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

- paint from your imagination
- identify and employ a variety of sources of inspiration for your imagination
- employ a toolkit of resources to access, free-up and sustain your imaginative engagement
- develop a body of work from initial sources
- explore colour and the imagination
- identify how meditation can assist your painting practice.

Basic materials are provided.

If you would like to buy art materials for your personal use outside of the course, City Lit students receive 10% discount off everything* from Cass Art, the UK's leading art supplies retailer. Your tutor will advise you on what you should buy. You will need to show your enrolment receipt in-store to receive your discount. Visit the Charing Cross shop at 13 Charing Cross Road WC2H 0EP or find your local shop at *Terms and conditions apply, visit

- through demonstration of painting methods
- individual and group practical exercises
- one to one tutoring
- group discussion and evaluation
- some short personal research tasks between classes
- slideshows, hand-outs and other practical learning resources.

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Subjects

  • Painting

Course programme

During the course we will explore ways of accessing the imagination and create paintings from a variety of sources of inspiration. You will be introduced to a range of artists and their sources of inspiration ranging from everyday life, to landscape, colour and visionary experience. Each session will offer some skills input e.g. on colour, gesture, ways of developing your own subject matter, and means of articulating your experience directly through the medium of paint. You will develop a toolkit of painting methods and ideas that will inform your work into the future. There will be a short guided meditation each day to aid concentration in your painting practice.

Additional information

A range of Painting courses such as: Painting: Composing and improvising with colour Ways into abstract painting Surrealist Sunday Working with colour Painting studio. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

Painting and the creative imagination

£ 289 VAT inc.