Oct Half Term - Art & Design For Young People 13-17 Years

Oct Half Term – Art & Design For Young People 13-17 Years

An enjoyable and challenging course designed to build on existing skills to create a varied body of work useful for GCSE and A level course work or for a dynamic foundation portfolio.

What The Course is About:

An enjoyable and challenging 2 day course designed to build on existing skills to create a varied body of work useful for GCSE and A level course work or for a dynamic foundation portfolio. The course aims to explore drawing media in depth; line, tone and structure with an introduction to colour and further mark making techniques working with pastels, watercolour/ gouache and ink/mono - print.

Materials Required:

What to bring to the first session: Paper and further items can be purchased from the school shop. Wear old clothes/bring an apron/disposable gloves if desired – inks will stain. Sketchbook Selection of sketching pencils, old biro, black marker pen Glue stick/scissors Masking tape Selection of OLD materials suitable for creating textures with monoprint such as: Old comb, old fork, toy car with wheels, old decorating brushes of different widths, bubble wrap etc.

Previous Experience:

All Levels

End of course:

What will I achieve? The aim of the course is to build on existing skills to create a varied body of work useful for GCSE and A level course work or for a dynamic foundation portfolio