Duration 

21 July – 01 August / 2 weeks 

Monday - Friday 10am – 4.30pm

Course leader(s) 

Mixed

Level - Varying levels of experience 

Course Description

This course acts as a bridge should you wish to extend your experience of drawing and consider how it might be developed into painting, whilst contemplating how these two disciplines cross over and inform one another. During week one you will be exploring some of the formal issues of drawing through observation. Special emphasis is put on looking carefully at tone and mark-making, the translation of tone and line into colour and the role of colour in both painting and drawing. In the second week you will investigate strategies to generate fresh imagery, looking at extending paint handling, translating, transferring and composing new images using a variety of materials. The course offers a new approach to perceiving and making visual work each day, and as such provides a rich ground of methods from which to build and explore personal ideas after leaving. Tuition addressing your personal development will be woven through the taught studio sessions. This course is an ideal pre-cursor to our Painting courses, where students can build on these  to branch out into an investigation of their own ideas.

Please Read Slade’s Terms & Conditions: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/summer-school/short-courses/#general-information