Art Mixed Media - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 26 February - 2 April 2025
• Sessions: Wednesdays: 10am - 12:30pm
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Beeston Library, Beeston
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £45.50

Art Mixed Media is an introduction to different ways of creating drawn and painted images and will give you the opportunity to explore a range of experimental mixed media techniques including collage, pen and inks, frottage, typographic printing, and painting and stenciling.

During the course we will be focusing on using these techniques in a range ways to build up fragmented or abstracted compositions. We will be working both in black and white and colour and the key approach to media will be experimentation! Some experience of drawing and painting is useful, but not essential as each week we will explore a different process (or processes in combination). It will be fun!

You will learn about how you can use these media and techniques creatively through looking at and discussing other artists work and by demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition.

By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in a range of experimental, creative techniques, produced some effective developmental images and gained skills for future art and design work.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Discuss how other artists have used experimental techniques in their work to explore ideas.
• Use inks to explore markmaking and different qualities of line.
• Use different black and white and colour media to produce textures to use in collage experiments.
• Use text and printmaking techniques to explore ideas.
• Use painting and stenciling techniques to explore colour, layering and composition.
• Use a range of mixed media confidently.

Learners should bring:

• Apron or big shirt
• Range of pencils B-4B
• Rubber
• Pencil sharpener
• Palette
• Acrylic paint set
• Black ink and set of colour inks (if you have them)
• Range of synthetic paint brushes
• Glue stick
• A3 white cartridge paper pad (good quality not recycled paper)
• Water pot
• Letter stamps (if you have them)
• Most of the equipment and materials can be bought from WH Smith, Hobbycraft, The Range or Amazon.

Suggested Reading for the course:

• Sketchbook Explorations Shelley Rhodes

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
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