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Drawing the Masters

Hone your style through recreating works from legendary artists through history. Explore your artistic ability through graphite, charcoal and water-soluble oil paint.

From the Renaissance to the Impressionists, you will be practising various classical approaches from paper and charcoal through to stretched canvas and water-soluble oil paints. Not only will you gain a deeper perspective of art history as you dive into the works of each artist, but also learn of the different practical approaches you can take to a project inspired by the Masters. Explore techniques that you can use to improve your work, and will introduce you to skills that will enable you to continue developing your paintings and drawing outside of class.

Learn the key skills the Masters have taken throughout their work in order to underpin your own style building towards a final Master Copy project. Towards the end of the course you will build towards a final project where you explore the ‘in-direct’ painting approach. You will refine your technique at presenting form whilst building our own Artistic Visual language through colour, composition and subject matter.

What will you achieve?

  • In this course we will learn of classical Art movements and their styles whilst gaining a deeper knowledge of Artists who have helped shape these movements. 
  • Represent the appearance of light, shadow and form and how to convey these with Graphite, charcoal, chalk and paint. 
  • Expand your knowledge of human artistic anatomy and proportion. 
  • Build a visual language of mark making in graphite, charcoal and paint on various surfaces and materials such as Cartridge paper and Stretched Canvas. 
  • Present a deeper understanding of classical composition within painting and drawing. using graphite, charcoal and oil paint in the classical approach, presenting Portraiture, Figurative or landscape exploring classical colour harmonies and a visual narrative. 
  • Practise building a body of work that can be developed into a fully fledged work of Art, utilising sketches, colour studies and visual research into a final piece.

Artists

You will be covering the works of Reubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and many more.

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We will be publishing new class dates soon - please register your interest and we will be in touch with more information.

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Register your interest

We will be publishing new class dates soon - please register your interest and we will be in touch with more information.

First Name*
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All City Academy tutors are experienced professionals from theatre, film/TV and performance industries. So whilst they're training you they may also be rehearsing for a West End show or working on a movie. We like that and we do believe it makes a difference in class.

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ALL ART SUPPLIES ARE PROVIDED

No need to bring anything to our Art classes - we supply everything!

City Academy's art studio base at the Arts Theatre is fully equipped with everything you need to get creative. You'll have access to charcoal, paints, pencils, pastels, ink, paper, easels, brushes, mobile lighting and a wide range of props to suit your chosen class. 

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