Overview
Key facts
Sketching and drawing is fundamental to everything we do and throughout history every great artist and designer has kept a sketch book. A personal visual ‘journal’, it offers a place to experiment, record special moments or work through your ideas for a more advanced project.
In this highly creative 10-week course you’ll release your personal style through using different mediums and methods of creating traditional art.
Programme Overview
During the Sketching and Watercolour (Stage 1) course from Arts University Bournemouth you will explore the fundamentals of drawing and observation including how to capture spontaneous and honest moments. You will use a variety of materials and techniques including pencils, watercolour and charcoal looking at genres such as landscape, botanical, objects and animals.
It also includes a session in AUB’s unique Crab drawing studio with a dressed model giving you the opportunity to develop your drawing and sketching skills of the human form. Colour and design knowledge will be explored further through the university’s on-campus museum, MODIP, (Museum of Design in Plastic) as well as a potential location session.
The course aims to:
- Enable students to gain confidence in their drawing and observational skills
- Experiment and develop ideas discovering new approaches to creating
- Learn some basic water colour techniques and apply to sketching
- Learn to use the sketchbook as a visual journal or as research for an art project
- A means to relax through art in any location
Programme Structure
Courses Include:- Experienced guidance from an artist specialising in sketching and water-colour
- Learning to see and sketch the world around you
- Developing skills with pencil, pens, water-colour and charcoal creating lively drawing through expressive use of line and mark making
- Tone, contrast, textures, colour and form
- Capturing movement and basic perspective
- Basic techniques to approach landscape, botanical, animals, objects and people.
- Being inspired by techniques used by past artists – with handouts
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 days
Start dates & application deadlines
The next start dates will be announced in April.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Visual Arts Art History View 247 other Short Courses in Visual Arts in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Suitable for most levels, from beginners, to students exploring ideas for exhibitions or HE applications and wanting a bridge to further courses, or those who want to step away from digital world and build on their skills to create lively sketching and painting.
You need:
- Good quality hard back A4 sketchbook (Pink Pig, Sea Whites or similar)
- Pencils 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B
- Charcoal
- Set of black fine line drawing pens (Permanent Ink)
- Putty, plastic eraser, pencil sharpener
- Water colour paints – Pans (Winsor and Newton Cotman sketching range – set of 12)
- Pro-arte Water colour paint brushes set of 5
- A roll of cheap lining paper
Tuition Fee
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International
339 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 339 GBP for the full programme during 2 days. -
National
339 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 339 GBP for the full programme during 2 days.
Living costs for Bournemouth
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.