1 Week Summer Research Course: Drawing & Photography

Summer Portfolio Building Course

Draw, Sketch, Photograph

Course Outline

The Summer Art Research Course embraces drawing, sketching, and photography. The course aims to offer a fun, creative week of research in art and design whilst visiting or studying in the UK. This is an excellent introduction to London’s wonderful museums and art galleries. We hope to introduce you to many great masters, contemporary artists, and designers who will inspire you while we sketch and photograph. Composition is essential for drawing and photography, so we hope the course will encourage many of you to see the qualities of both work methods for the creative mind and possibly further study. All levels are welcome.

Step by step, through each day of the one-week art course, you can improve and learn a whole range of fundamental drawing and sketching techniques and more about approaches to photography too. You have the option to embrace both methods of working or you can choose one or the other.

Attending this course will be an excellent opportunity for some to build up a portfolio for higher-level applications at University. Students from all backgrounds and levels of experience are welcome. We hope everyone builds up a body of work that they can keep safely in a folder on their computer or add to an A3 portfolio.

The one-week art course is also ideal for fine art practitioners to develop their work, learn from fellow artists, and make new international creative friends.

The observation of people in places
How can drawing assist our understanding?
How can photography capture a moment?
Is complex narrative worth trying to achieve, or is it preferable to give those who populate the painting much more essential primal roles?

We will debate and explore these investigations and questions through drawing and photography. Students will be encouraged to conduct independent research investigating the crossovers between drawing, painting and photography.

What you will learn

Within this framework of drawing, painting and photography, the Summer workshops will introduce students to:

The fundamentals of drawing and sketching, through observational exercises and working from photographs, memory and the imagination.
Line, tone, composition and colour will be explored concerning Art History.
The exploration of a range of quick drawing and painting techniques.
How to capture a good photograph, the power of a moment.
Methods of work that will encourage students to develop an independent sensibility within the loose framework of pictorial representation.
How to develop your unique system of making drawings as preparatory work for paintings.
How photography can inspire drawing and painting.

Ultimately, students will gain control over their work’s form and content as they progress through the Summer Drawing and Photography Course programme whilst becoming familiar with London and its creative outlets. This is a deal for visitors and practising artists searching for new work methods and inspiration, plus students looking to build a new, dynamic portfolio during their holiday breaks.

How you will learn

Through technical demonstrations, students will:

Build confidence in attaining and extending a range of drawing skills and mediums.
Learn how drawing can clarify complex, playful compositions in paint and photography.
Understand the integral role preparatory work plays when making paintings or planning a series of photographs.
Learn the importance of colours, hue and tone.
PowerPonts will be sent out to inform summer students more about great masters and contemporary painting and photography.

Materials you will need

Course Dates

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Course Details

Days
Monday-Thursday

Time
9 am-12 noon

Duration
1 Week

Price
£490

3rd July 2023 – 6th July 2023

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