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You Can Draw (7 week afternoon course)
Nov
5
to 17 Dec

You Can Draw (7 week afternoon course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this seven-week afternoon course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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You Can Draw! (7 week evening course)
Nov
5
to 17 Dec

You Can Draw! (7 week evening course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this seven-week evening course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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Saturday Art Club for Children - Trees in a landscape
Dec
7
2:00 pm14:00

Saturday Art Club for Children - Trees in a landscape

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.

Inspired by the artist Elouise Renouf we will create collaged and printed trees in a landscape using painted papers, paint and printing methods.

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Freedom with Landscape Acrylics
Jan
14
to 15 Jan

Freedom with Landscape Acrylics

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Loosen up your acrylic landscape painting! We will make exploratory sketches in paint followed by a larger version on canvas board. Learn how to make a dynamic composition, select and bring attention to the focal point and experience and use a wide range of acrylic techniques.

The small group makes more personal tuition time available.

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Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils
Feb
15
10:00 am10:00

Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This workshop is an ideal introduction to landscape painting in oils. Working from a reference photo provided a landscape painting will be produced with attention to perspective, tonal values, colour mixing and application of colours. Students will be able to create a realistic landscape painting following a step-by-step process.

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Landscape Acrylics on Canvas (2 half-day course)
Oct
21
to 22 Oct

Landscape Acrylics on Canvas (2 half-day course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Enjoy the experience of painting a landscape in acrylics with the advantages of a textured canvas.  It can also go directly on your wall without a frame!    We will follow a step by step demonstrated approach and you will learn and use a wide range of techniques in the process. This is a two half-day course, of 6 hours tuition and follows on from my earlier Yardley Arts courses. New students are welcome!

The small group makes more personal tuition time available.

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Introduction to Portrait Painting in Oils
Oct
19
10:00 am10:00

Introduction to Portrait Painting in Oils

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

We welcome back the talented Cordell Garfield to run another full day’s portraiture workshop. Cordell teaches a step by step process to create a portrait from a photographic reference. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists.

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You Can Draw! (6 week evening course)
Sept
10
to 15 Oct

You Can Draw! (6 week evening course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this six week evening course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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You Can Draw (6 week afternoon course)
Sept
10
to 15 Oct

You Can Draw (6 week afternoon course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this six-week afternoon course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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Introduction to watercolour techniques (6 week morning course)
Sept
10
to 15 Oct

Introduction to watercolour techniques (6 week morning course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this six-week course you will learn the basics of painting in watercolour and pick up tips and tricks to help you tackle your watercolour painting with confidence.

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Saturday Art Club for Children - Pot Pictures
Jun
8
2:00 pm14:00

Saturday Art Club for Children - Pot Pictures

This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.

Inspired by Rosa Roberts, create your own collection of pots, jugs, cups, and bottles using mixed media, paint, collage, pens, crayons, oil pastels and more!

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You Can Draw! (6 week evening course)
May
21
to 25 Jun

You Can Draw! (6 week evening course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

On this six week evening course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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You Can Draw (6 week afternoon course)
May
21
to 25 Jun

You Can Draw (6 week afternoon course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this six-week afternoon course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.

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Watercolour Painting - Stunning Blooms
May
13
1:00 pm13:00

Watercolour Painting - Stunning Blooms

Create an expressive painting of flowers bursting with radiance, light and joy. Loosen up and lift your paintings from lack-lustre flowers to radiant blooms with wow factor!!!

Use a mixture of wet in dry and wet into wet method and a limited colour palette along with lively direct brushwork to create paintings that are radiant and fresh with a vital balance of areas of impact with strong tonal contrast combined with soft edges to create beautiful yet bold artworks.

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Contemporary Still Life (Mixed Media) Weekend
May
4
to 5 May

Contemporary Still Life (Mixed Media) Weekend

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

In this bank holiday weekend workshop, let artist Sally Ellis inspire you to create your own contemporary still life paintings using acrylic paints and inks in our stunning art centre.

Sally will guide you through her unique process which will encourage you to be playful, expressive and brave which you can then adapt accordingly in your own painting.

At the end of the weekend, you will have created up to 2 paintings on artist quality acrylic paper on cradled wooden panels.

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Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils
Apr
27
10:00 am10:00

Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

This workshop is an ideal introduction to landscape painting in oils. Working from a reference photo provided a landscape painting will be produced with attention to perspective, tonal values, colour mixing and application of colours. Students will be able to create a realistic landscape painting following a step-by-step process.

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ART ON THE WALL with Katy Burdett & Emma Lindsay
Apr
20
to 16 Jun

ART ON THE WALL with Katy Burdett & Emma Lindsay

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

‘Art on the Wall ‘ is a rolling exhibition of works on the largest wall in the main space at Yardley Arts.

Katy Burdett and Emma Lindsay are well known local artists and will be filling Yardley Arts with their paintings, prints and greeting cards, all available to view and most to buy. 

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Drawing for the Terrified (5 week morning block)
Apr
16
to 14 May

Drawing for the Terrified (5 week morning block)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

We are delighted to have Minnie Teckman return as a tutor with this five-week drawing course to get you started and give you confidence. It is designed to build up your observational drawing skills, as well as exploring and learning techniques.  Each week there will be a different theme such as tone and value, line and texture, form and space.

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Saturday Art Club for Children - Matisse Goldfish
Apr
13
2:00 pm14:00

Saturday Art Club for Children - Matisse Goldfish

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Come and immerse yourself in the vibrant and expressive world of Henri Matisse. Inspired by the master of color and bold shapes, we will create our own masterpiece using markers and paint. Through this activity, we will explore the joy of color, composition, and creative expression in the spirit of Matisse.

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Watercolour Painting -Sensational Spring Florals
Apr
8
1:00 pm13:00

Watercolour Painting -Sensational Spring Florals

Create an expressive painting of Spring florals bursting with radiance, light and joy. Loosen up and lift your paintings from lackluster flowers to radiant blooms with Wow factor!

Use a mixture of wet in dry and wet into wet method and a limited colour palette along with lively direct brushwork to create paintings that are radiant and fresh with a vital balance of areas of impact with strong tonal contrast combined with soft edges to create beautiful yet bold artworks.

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Landscape Acrylics on Canvas (2 day course)
Mar
18
to 19 Mar

Landscape Acrylics on Canvas (2 day course)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

Enjoy the experience of painting a landscape in acrylics with the advantages of a textured canvas.  It can also go directly on your wall without a frame!    We will follow a step by step demonstrated approach and you will learn and use a wide range of techniques in the process. This is a two morning course, of 6 hours tuition and follows on from my earlier Yardley Arts courses. New students are welcome!

The small group makes more personal tuition time available.

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Loosen Up Your Floral Oils (Intermediate - 2 day workshop)
Mar
7
to 8 Mar

Loosen Up Your Floral Oils (Intermediate - 2 day workshop)

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

A two-day course focussing on producing floral oil painting using a loose approach and exploring tone and colour to describe the subject, without overworking.

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Woodland Animals Watercolour Painting - Fantastic Fiery Fox
Feb
29
1:00 pm13:00

Woodland Animals Watercolour Painting - Fantastic Fiery Fox

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

Create a painting of this delightful subject in watercolour which is a perfect medium to capture the sparkling eyes, captivating character and the radiant bushy tail of this well loved creature.

We will use a limited colour palate and explore temperature and transparency and a dynamic direct brushwork using limited layers to give our artworks vive and vibrancy. The colours and techniques are very similar to the January workshop painting squirrels so its a perfect move on from this subject but with a little more challenge.

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Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils
Feb
17
10:00 am10:00

Introduction to Landscape Painting in Oils

  • Yardley Arts, The Old School Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

This workshop is an ideal introduction to landscape painting in oils. Working from a reference photo provided a landscape painting will be produced with attention to perspective, tonal values, colour mixing and application of colours. Students will be able to create a realistic landscape painting following a step-by-step process.

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