JL ART COURSES 2012
We at JL art courses believe art can change perception, and the way you see contemporary life. Give confidence, be relaxing, remind you of wonderful places, see things afresh, see things differently and enable you to fill your homes with wonderful unique paintings.

Our mission is to -
- Aim to help anyone who has an interest in the arts to make a great piece of work.
- To provide affordable short courses
- To help create a good platform for groups of new artists to meet
- To help make great Art Accessible for all!
- To create a fun and lively learning environment
- To help build confidence in how to make a work of art

- To help artists engage and access contemporary art discussions (with exciting talks and trips)
- To help develop knowledge of contemporary art, and art history
- To build on the knowledge of techniques in contemporary art and art history to help develop new insights, and new commentary in new work.
- To help artists at all levels to be inspired, from kids workshops, to achieving a first great picture to helping more experienced artists with their professional development

Brush Studios - JL Art classes offer classes in the following areas
-Painting
-Drawing
-Introduction to Sculpture
- Art History Round Table Discussions
- Kids Club

Please see below for further information on upcoming courses.

Activities also available

- Corporate Art Events
- Art Parties
- Art Trips

- Private Tuition

To sign up or for further information please email info@jlartclasses.com or phone 07979742930.

 

Look forward to hopefully meeting you on one of the courses.

 

Best wishes,

Josephine Lyons

Founder and Tutor - JL ART CLASSES

 

 

 

JL ART CLASSES

UPCOMING COURSES

14^th of May to 11^th of June, Every Monday (5 week course) £110

7.40pm to 9.40pm Portraits and the Human Body

This five week course is about painting portraits and the figure.  This course will look at the biological diagrams of the body, an understanding in portraiture and painting the figure a notion of inside and outside represented in painting.  The courses will look at the ways artist sees a character and observes different traits.  The course will look at helping the students find their own selection and development in line, colour and subject.  

The first two weeks of the course will be exploring different ways of drawing the figure, and then there will be a three week (6hr) pose.   Looking at washes highlights on the form, negative spaces, how to paint skin, and fabric, definition, background, pressure and textures in applying paint.  The course will discuss the work of Howard Hodgkin,  Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Paul Gauguin, Matisse, Yves Klein, Constantin Brancusi, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Painter and His Model by Pablo Picasso, 1927, and Rene Magritte.

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

18^th of June to 16^th of July, Every Monday

7.40pm to 9.40pm – Painting from Nature (5 week Course) £110

Working from 5 different still life compositions this course aims to enable you to make five great small paintings. Looking at realism, impression, how to resonate different atmospheres and create textures in painting. The course will explore how to capture glass, wood, flowers and mirrors. This course is a perfect introduction to including other objects also in backgrounds in figure painting. Looking at colour, tone, directions of lines and marks. The course will discuss the work of Cezanne, Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso Cockerel, 1938, Van Gogh, Willem Kalf.

All Materials provided. Suitable for all levels. Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

Sundays 17^th of June to 19^th of August

Summer Outdoor Course Landscapes 10 week Course £110

This course is a ten week course round Oxford.  Painting portraits in landscapes and also Port meadow.  Working on a composition for four weeks.   Visiting the colleges, University parks, Pitt Rivers Collection and various meadows.   Looking at what compositions make a great landscape and how to observe perspective in drawing outside. This is also the perfect course to start building a sketchbook and explore different mediums from watercolour to pastels.  The last five weeks will be spent outside painting a landscape of Portmeadow.

This course is dependent slightly on the weather (if wet inside options will be available). 

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

Saturday Day Course – Exploring the ideas about the Age of the Enlightenment

16th of June, 11am to 4.30pm (45 minute Lunch break) £55

Science and art have had a close relationship at many different times in art history. This course will look at how the investigation to find an understanding of the world has led to studies of a notion of truth in painting.  The desire for allegories and metaphor in art connected to science.  Looking at stories of fertility gods, to biological paintings of muscles, and how imagination can play a role in focusing our attention in science.   This is an ideas based course – focusing on also ideas about the solar system and landscape and bringing these ideas into painting. This will be a five week project based course. In this course can work in pairs or individually.

Discussing the work of artists Leonardo da Vinci, Carvaggio, and contemporary artists work that deal with similar concerns. 

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

23^rd of July to 20^th of August, Every Monday

7.40pm to 9.40pm Materials Course and Making Portraits course – Charcoal, Watercolours, Acrylic, Oils and Portraits (5 week course) £110

This course will be an introduction to different materials.  During the course the class will paint 5 different portraits, one in pencil, one in charcoal, one in watercolour, one in Acrylic and one in oil. The course will look at the different techniques that can be explored in each different medium.  Layering, washes, staccato, blurring and soft mark making, pointillism, blocking, perspective and tone. 

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

27^th of August to 24^th of September, Every Monday

7.40pm to 9.40pm Summer Expression and Painting landscapes (5 week course) £110

Painting the fruits of the season, the landscapes of blossom and evoke the light of summer.  This course looks at exploring different expressions and impressions in painting.  During the course, each student will pick one subject of choice in relation to summer, and look to develop their own great paintings of this subject.  This course will look to help students develop their own research into painting in summer and summer landscapes.  The course will look at different types of painting expression and accentuating different atmospheres.

Discussing the work of  Kitagawa Utamoro, Plum Blossom Paintings

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

1st of October to 29th of October, Every Monday

7.40pm to 9.40pm Portraiture for Beginners.  (5 week course) £110

This course will be the painting of a portrait for 5 weeks.  The integrity of a character, understanding the way that the model is and bringing about a naturalist impression of the model.  The course will focus on the development of the presence of individuals in painting.  The course will go over the basics of measurement, tone, colour, and composition in painting.  In the last three weeks the course will focus on completing one great painting of the model for a 6hr pose.  All Materials provided. Suitable for beginners.

The course will discussing the photographic work of Henri Cartier –Bresson and the work of the Prague Photographer

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

1st of November to 3rd of December, Every Monday,

7.40pm to 9.40pm Still Life – 5 weeks – One Composition, £110, 5 week Course

 This course will focus on painting a large still life for five weeks on canvas.  The course will look at how to observe and practise in painting different textures, colours, and capture the different forms of objects. Evoke calming atmospheres, and a sense of autumn in the painting.  Painting on a large canvas, this course aims to help students capture a beautiful selection of colour, and form. All materials provided.  Suitable for all levels. Acrylic on canvas.

The Course will discuss the work of Cezanne, Renoir, and Mondrian    

All Materials provided.  Suitable for all levels.  Book now!

Classes limited to 12. To book now email info@jlartclasses.com

 

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Dependent on student numbers, the courses may be subject to changes or cancellations.