We have a huge variety of drawing and painting courses to offer including Book Illustration, Life & Figure Drawing, Oil Painting, Watercolours and Gouache as well as Experimental Art & Media.
Learn to Draw (Beginners)
This course is aimed at complete beginners who have never drawn or who have not drawn for many years or have no confidence in their drawing and need help and encouragement.
NEW 2D to 3D: Thinking, Making & Drawing 3D Campus
INVENTING LANDSCAPES; 2D - 3D EXPLORING THE REAL AND UNREAL; THINKING LIKE AN ARTIST In this course, you will explore materials and structures using a variety of models and approaches to generate responses in 2d and 3d (micro/macro).
NEW Classic Drawing & Painting (All levels)
This course is ideal for complete beginners who have never drawn before, or for those with some experience, who’d like to brush up their skills and gain confidence in their drawing.
NEW Drawing Project
“Celebrating drawing as the process of seeing made visible” Who is it for? Suitable for those with a little previous experience and those who have been drawing for some time but would like to widen, refresh, broaden and develop their drawing practice.
NEW Insect Illustrations (Short Courses)
This course is aimed at those with an interest in exploring the world of insects in all its details and in capturing the beauty of these fascinating creatures in a scientifically accurate and aesthetically pleasing way. Note: We will not kill any insects.
NEW Introduction to Portraiture 3D Campus
This course is ideal for complete beginners who have never drawn or painted from a live model before, or for those with some experience, who’d like to brush up their skills and gain confidence in their drawing and colour work.
NEW Microscopic Drawing (Short Courses) 3D Campus
This course is aimed at those with an interest in exploring the natural world in all its details, botany, scientific illustration and botanical art
NEW ONLINE Draw and Paint in Mixed Media
An exciting project-based course, exploring expressive ways to create drawings and paintings using mixed media. The course has been specially designed for an online platform with plenty of live demos and consideration for those making work at home.
NEW Open Studio: Tutorials for art practitioners 3D Campus
Students will present their projects for discussion in an informal and supportive group setting with one - to - one tutorials where the focus is on mentoring from the tutor alongside critical peer reviews, with guidance given on art historical and contemporary related models, exhibition curation and gallery visits.
NEW Portfolio Preparation 3D Campus
If you wish to develop a good grounding in a variety aspects of painting, drawing and mixed media together with an awareness of contemporary and historical art . In particular those who may wish to put together a portfolio for application to a higher level* course or employment in a related field.
NEW Understanding Colour
This course is ideal for those students new to using colour but have done a bit of drawing before. Or for those who’d like to gain confidence and improve their use of colour. We’ll focus on colour starting with colour theory/mixing using acrylic paints and creating a painting later in the day. There’ll be demos and plenty of one-to-one attention and examples of artists work to inspire you.
NEW Watercolour for Beginners
This course is ideal for beginners who want to learn the essential techniques and approaches of watercolour painting, and to develop skills in using this exciting medium.
Oil Painting (Advanced)
This is a practical and ideas-based course and you will learn with the help of tutor demonstrations, groups crits and individual guidance.
Oil Painting (Intermediate Level)
This is a practical and ideas-based course and you will learn with the help of tutor demonstrations, groups crits and individual guidance. The course is project-based, with projects running for a half or full term.
Open Studio: Contemporary Practice
A new open studio class with PSAD tutor Jane Millar, offers students a chance to work together to develop their art practice and unlock new creativity.
Painting Open Studio (Advanced workshop)
Painting Open Studio is for experienced students or advanced painting skills so that they can work independently.
Painting Projects
Project based course with different themes for each term. Previous projects have included ‘People and Places’ and ‘Cityscapes’.
