Art - Personal Projects (Landscapes, Cityscapes, Still Life) - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Date	4 June - 9 July 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 10am - 12:30pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Beeston Library, Beeston View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £52.50

About this course

The Art Personal Projects course will give you the opportunity to explore an area of personal interest to you, using the three themes of Landscape, Cityscape and Still-life as a starting point for developing your own ideas and practical work. Some experience of drawing and painting is useful, but not essential. We will be building on your existing skills using a range of traditional and innovative approaches to painting and drawing.

On the course you will initially be given prepared visual source material to work from, but you will be encouraged to begin to select your own subject matter to aid the generation of your own personal response. To begin with we will explore a range of different painting, drawing and mixed media techniques to develop your understanding of your chosen theme and subject matter and then you will have the freedom to work on your own initiative with 1-1 tutor guidance.

The first couple of sessions will focus on identifying your own personal direction within your chosen theme through an exploration of formal elements such as line, tone, texture, pattern, form and colour, which should act as a spring board for you to start your own creative investigation and will act as a stepping stone to each consecutive sessions activities.

Each stage of your personal project will be supported by discussions of artists’ work that links to individual themes, practical demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition.

By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in their own ability to generate and create work independently.

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

Discuss how other artists have explored the themes of Landscape, cityscape and still-life creatively.
Generate ideas linked to a theme.
Use formal elements creatively in own work to explore a theme or subject matter.
Set individual targets linked to a theme or subject matter.
Produce a range of creative imagery linked to a chosen theme or subject matter.
Use art and design language confidently to describe or explain your own work.

Resources required:

Apron or big shirt.
B, 2B, 3B pencils, rubber–WH Smiths, Amazon.
Range of paintbrushes- pack from The Works, WH Smith or Amazon.
Scissors.
Waterpot
Masking tape- The Range, Hobby craft, Amazon.
Set of acrylic paints, The Works, The Range, Hobbycraft, Amazon.
A3 cartridge paper pad (at least 140g paper) – (example Daler Rowney A3 cartridge pad yellow and red cover, or Seawhites cartridge paper pad) The Range, Hobbycraft, WH Smith Amazon.
Palette- The Works, Hobbycraft, The Range, Amazon.
Canvas (optional) Hobbycraft, the Range, Amazon.
Bring any additional materials that you think you might like to use to develop your work.
Charcoal, inks, oil/soft pastels, collage materials etc.

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: