Explorer’s Art   (3 – 4.5 yrs)

The Weird and Wonderful

(Playful Sculpture)

Explore the world of playful sculptures as our Explorers create their own configurations inspired by the childlike works of Matthew Ronay. Here’s your opportunity to mold unusual shapes with plaster and balloons; then decorate the sculpted forms with ice-cream-colour.

Follow Alexander Calder’s expressive shapes and forms in 3D, as you develop a series of paper-crafted stabiles.

Core Art   (4.5 yrs+)

We All Stand Together

Artist and social activist Keith Haring’s Barking Dog and Radiant Baby inspire our Core Artists in the coming months. Expect plenty of posters with impactful social statements. Positive thematic messages, and symbolic images composed with bold designs and primary colours.

To complement this, Raymond Saá’s unconventional art technique will motivate a collection of greeting cards with painted collages and assemblages.

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Informative Illustration

Learn how to convey a message using drawings of figures and subjects. Create a triptych illustration with acrylic paint and ink pens, and design convincing images to depict a personalized message without the use of the written word.

Junior Ready-Set-Draw   (6 – 8 yrs)

Creative Sketchbooks

Art courses for 6-8 year olds with themes centering on narrative, animals landscapes, portraiture and comics, coming soon!  Please contact Colour My World for more information.

Tactile Textile   (10 yrs+)

Lines Circuit

This textile project will focus on abstract drawings with a study on the quality of lines. Rigid and loose, clear and fuzzy; machine stitched and hand embroidered. Your design, will originate from an observational drawing to be transposed into a dynamic tactile image on fabric. You’ll then be encouraged to adopt a range of coloured threads to animate your piece.

Sculpture Culture   (Pottery-Ceramics 8 yrs+)

Fundamentals Master Class

Learn to build three-dimensionally and excel in creation that takes form in art ware, figurines, sculpture, decorative and applied art objects. Acquire fundamental skills from pinching, coiling,  slab to wheel-throwing, we shall experiment with new materials whilst utilizing techniques of slip casting, clay modeling, and surface texturing. 

The Digital:Hub – Animation, DSLR & Filmmaking   (8 yrs+, 10 yrs+)

Filmmaking   (10 yrs+)

Blockbuster Movie into 60 Seconds

Learn the value of information and understand how to develop more engaging stories. Write your own script, and shoot and edit your very own video. Add voice over narration and you’ll have the skills to break down any blockbuster movie into 60 seconds.

DSLR – Digital Photography   (10 yrs+)

Double Exposure

Learn skills in portrait photography and how to play with different lighting effects to create the perfect double exposure. Using Photoshop you will learn how to combine a double exposure portrait and outdoor elements using blending techniques and colouring.

Stop Motion Animation   (8 yrs+)

Compile still photography to create computer animation. Narrative and story board creation.

Sketchbook Studies / Painting   (10 yrs+)

Hopper’s Space

This term we ask students to reflect on their time in isolation. To express their vision and feelings through their personal space. Inspired by realist painter Edward Hopper, his silent spaces and uneasy encounters, you will use light and shadow to depict moods in composition. With Hopper’s soft realism, simplified details, shapes and saturated colours, you will create a work of acrylic blocking and oil shading to contrast your inner self.

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-end self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 4.5 yrs)

Moving with the Movements

Explorers get ready! We’re about to take a whirlwind trip into abstract surrealism. Compile your very own hardback book of masterpieces, demonstrating the unique contemporary expressions of established artists, including Mark Rothko’s multiforms, Raymond Saá’s painted collages, and Damien Hirst’s visual candy painting. From acrylics to ink, oil pastels and patterns, this workshop is jam-packed with artistic development, art history and adventures galore.

Core Art   (4.5 yrs+)

I Think I’m Turning Bauhaus…

Looking at geometric, primitive and abstract art and design, you will be influenced to create a 3D architectural piece with an assemblage of coloured painted wood. Study visual text in graphic design and merge a collage of human figures, to form a dynamic outcome.  The result will bring together light, and motion in a contemporary Bauhaus twist, all informed by Bauhaus masters like Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Conceptual Illustration

Venture out into the wild and learn the technical aspects of illustrating textured animals and whimsical landscapes. Adopting the principles of graphic design, you will create a conceptual water-coloured illustration. Follow the contours of a wild animal to outline a landscaped vista in its natural habitat.

NEW Junior Ready-Set-Draw   (6 – 8 yrs)

Creative Sketchbooks

Art courses for 6-8 year olds with themes centering on narrative, animals landscapes, portraiture and comics, coming soon!  Please contact Colour My World for more information.

Tactile Textile   (10 yrs+)

Layering and Gathering

Create contrasting bold volumes and rhythms, or even a soft sculpture. In this workshop you will be working towards a monochrome twofold outcome, layering and gathering textile techniques to create a harmonious body of work.

Sculpture Culture   (Pottery-Ceramics 8 yrs+)

Fundamentals Master Class

Learn to build three-dimensionally and excel in creation that takes form in art ware, figurines, sculpture, decorative and applied art objects. Acquire fundamental skills from pinching, coiling,  slab to wheel-throwing, we shall experiment with new materials whilst utilizing techniques of slip casting, clay modeling, and surface texturing. 

The Digital:Hub – Animation, DSLR & Filmmaking   (8 yrs+, 10 yrs+)

Filmmaking   (10 yrs+)

Create a Commercial

Invent your own product and create a commercial to show it off. Write the script, film the shots and edit on Premiere Pro. What will your product be? A talking toy? A superhero drink? Learn to deliver a powerful narrative with professional guidance in camera work, props and set design. Wrap up your video with an engaging voice over and you’ll have a project that sells, sells, sells!

DSLR – Digital Photography   (10 yrs+)

Product Photography

Using diverse techniques in product photography, you will create a photographic A4 poster to market a range of products. Adopt compelling compositions, and employ ‘cheating’ techniques and action shots, all captured within a studio lighting setup.

Stop Motion Animation   (8 yrs+)

Compile still photography to create computer animation. Narrative and story board creation.

Sketchbook Studies / Painting   (10 yrs+)

Flash The Light on Fabric

Here’s your chance to interpret your surrealist expression in oils! Like clouds morphing in the boundless sky, we can tell stories that personify the natural twists and folds of textile. Sculptural forms of voluminous fabric, organic folds and pleats have the potential to create endless possibilities. Embrace dramatic abstract shapes in your very own painting!

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-end self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Visual Arts Programme Guide

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 4.5 yrs)

Go Stone Age

Design your own Neolithic characters, animals and patterns in this prehistorically focussed term of ‘Go Stone Age’. Imitate primitive paintings using crude tools to create a textured ‘cave wall’ and create a stylised sculptural deity of your imagination. Add some earth tones and your work will stand alongside some of the oldest art ever discovered.

Core Art   (4.5 yrs+)

Lost Art

Go in search of the world’s lost art! We will be exploring how artists recreate artwork that has vanished! Inspired by the likes of Michael Rakowitz’s, looted masterpieces will be reimagined. Join us to create a 3D clay model, rich in texture and a relief collage that plays with volume and space.  Sign up now for your chance to rediscover a lost treasure.

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Illustrative Publicist

Create your own product-focused-ad-illustration through sketching, watercolour and typography to create an illustration based on a classical painting. Referencing the realistic renderings of Joe McKendry and Norman Rockwell your aim will be to produce a piece of publicity art that is both clever and humorous.

NEW Junior Ready-Set-Draw   (6 – 8 yrs)

Creative Sketchbooks

Art courses for 6-8 year olds with themes centering on narrative, animals landscapes, portraiture and comics, coming soon!  Please contact Colour My World for more information.

Tactile Textile   (10 yrs+)

Embroidery – Textile Adornment

Drawing on the conservation project at CHAT (The Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile at The Mills) embroidery techniques will be applied to printed or painted fabrics. Practise your textile skills to produce contextualised backgrounds, which will bring your embroidered work to life.

Sculpture Culture   (Pottery-Ceramics 8 yrs+)

Fundamentals Master Class

Learn to build three-dimensionally and excel in creation that takes form in art ware, figurines, sculpture, decorative and applied art objects. Acquire fundamental skills from pinching, coiling,  slab to wheel-throwing, we shall experiment with new materials whilst utilizing techniques of slip casting, clay modeling, and surface texturing. 

The Digital:Hub – Animation, DSLR & Filmmaking   (8 yrs+, 10 yrs+)

Filmmaking   (10 yrs+)

Superhero Trailer

Join us for an extensive look into pre-production planning, timing and visual story telling. Develop your advance storytelling skills and basic camera techniques to create a 30 second trailer, around the Superhero theme.

DSLR – Digital Photography   (10 yrs+)

Cutout Montage

Explore the boundaries of experimental photography. French photographer Jean Faucheur’s fragmented photography plays with perspective and dissects portraiture to create stylised compositions. Learners will acquire DSLR portrait techniques, lighting set-ups and creating optical illusions in this digital photography course, playing with geometric cutout and image manipulation.

Stop Motion Animation   (8 yrs+)

Compile still photography to create computer animation. Narrative and story board creation.

Sketchbook Studies / Painting   (10 yrs+)

Deconstruction / Reconstruction

Enter the reconstructed world of the deconstructed. Broken ceramics will be reformed and then observed and recreated in drawings. With a focus on the principles of design, balance, rhythm and dominance, our budding artists will be directed to convey the emotional qualities of abstract creations with oils on canvas. All the more informed by artist Yee Sookyung’s imperfect sculptures composed from mismatched broken pieces of porcelain.

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-end self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.