When it is sunny, the combines are working in the fields, and the garden is overflowing with courgettes, lettuces and beetroot, the thought of Autumn Art Classes couldn’t be further from your minds. Fair enough. I thought I would send out a quick list to whet your appetite. Please look at the courses for more details
When the courgettes have turned to marrows, the lettuces have bolted and the beetroot are even larger because you don’t want to eat them every day…there will still be a light on the horizon.
September
Museum visit – Homage to Ganesha –Wednesday 30th September A visit to The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to see the Homage to Ganesha exhibition, and to draw from the museum collection. Each term there will be a visit to an exhibition, and a chance to draw in a museum. Art Draw Paint – Monday 28th The start of a 10 week course covering introductions to a variety of different media including ink, graphite, mixed media and acrylic. Practise What you Have Learnt – Monday 28th Monday afternoons are a time set aside to practise what you have been learning, to bring along pictures you are working on for discussion, or to paint a Still Life.
October
Evening Life Drawing – Tuesday, 6th The first Tuesday of each month (term time) there will be an evening of life drawing. Experimental Drawing – Tuesdays 6th, 13th, 20th A reminder of the experimental possibilities, pleasure, and variety of options available within drawing. Art Draw Paint – Mondays 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th Practise What you have Learnt – Mondays 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
November
Evening Life Drawing – Tuesday 3rd Autumn Charcoal Drawing into Oil Painting – Tuesdays 17th, 24th A series of classes to lead you from drawing in charcoal into painting with oils Shipping Forecast – 18th and 19th The poetic language and rhythms of the shipping forecast are companion to the insomniac and early riser. On this course you will endeavour to capture something of the broadcast. Art Draw Paint – Mondays 16th, 23rd, 30th Practise What you have Learnt – Mondays 16th, 23rd, 30th
December
Evening Life Drawing – Tuesday 1st Autumn Charcoal Drawing into Oil Painting – Tuesdays 1st, 8th Art Draw Paint – Mondays 7th and 14th Practise What You Have Learnt – Mondays 7th and 14th