Art Mixed Media Next Steps - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Date	23 April - 21 May 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 10am - 12:30pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Beeston Library, Beeston View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £43.75

About this course

The Art Mixed Media Next Steps course will give you the opportunity to extend and develop your mixed media skills further. You will learn how to combine different drawing, printing and painting techniques to create layered representational and abstracted imagery.

During the course we will be focusing on using a wide range of techniques including some of the following, stenciling, monoprinting, tonking, collage, frottage, relief printing and painting. We will experiment with these processes on their own and in combination. You will then select some of these techniques to develop your own compositions. We will be working both in black and white and colour and the key approach to media will be experimentation! Some experience of drawing and painting is useful, but not essential as each week we will explore a different process (or processes in combination). It will be fun!

You will learn about how you can use these media and techniques creatively through looking at and discussing other artists work and by demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition.

By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in a range of experimental, creative techniques, produced some effective developmental images and gained skills for future art and design work.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Discuss how other artists have used experimental techniques in their work to explore ideas.
Experiment successfully with text and printmaking techniques to explore ideas.
Use painting and stenciling techniques to explore colour, layering and composition.
Experiment with a range of mixed media confidently to produce images.
Use vocational language confidently to explain your own work.

Resources required:

Apron or big shirt
Range of pencils B-4B (WH Smiths, Art Suppliers online, Hobbycraft, The Range).
Rubber (Supermarkets, Wh Smiths)
Pencil sharpener (Supermarkets, WH Smiths).
Palette (Hobbycraft, The Range, Amazon).
Acrylic paint set (Hobbycraft, The Range, Amazon).
1 sheet of stencil card (Amazon, art suppliers online, Hobbycraft).
Range of synthetic paint brushes (The Works, Hobbycraft, The Range, WH Smiths, Amazon).
Glue stick (Supermarkets).
A3 white cartridge paper pad Daler Rowney (yellow and red cover) Seawhites (good quality not recycled paper) (Hobbycraft, The Range, WH Smiths, Rymans)
Water pot
Letter stamps (if you have them)

Suggested Reading for the course:

Sketchbook Explorations Shelley Rhodes

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: