One Week Holiday Course | From Image to Environment, Gallery to Street

Moving between the inspiration of historical artworks and the energy of London’s environment, this course invites you to develop your approach to drawing and sketching.

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One Week Holiday Course | From Image to Environment, Gallery to Street Image

Course details

Dates

6 Jul – 10 Jul 2026

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£445.00

Location

Parks & urban spaces

Tutors

Jeanette Barnes

Overview

In the mornings, we will spend time with influential artworks, exploring their compositions and strategies. In the afternoons, we will take these ideas into the cityscape and develop our own responses. Over four days, you will draw from paintings in several galleries, such as the National Gallery, the V&A, the Wallace Collection and Tate galleries. You will sketch from works that will enrich your afternoon drawing outdoors, from example paintings by historical and modern artists.

In the afternoons, we will draw by the river, a park and in lively city locations. You will learn how to sketch outdoors in an energetic and responsive way, explore spatial ideas and develop techniques for drawing people within an environment. On the fifth day, we will spend the entire day drawing outside, giving you the opportunity to choose and develop your own particular way of working.

Who is it for

Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels welcome, including beginners.

What’s provided

For our courses being held out and about, you will need to bring your own paper and materials with you. You will be sent a suggested material list before the start of the course.

What to bring

This is an example list of what may be needed; a full material lists will be provided one week before your course begins. Our suggestions include:

-Drawing Pencils
-Conté Crayons
-Pastels
-Ink Pens
-Coloured Pencils
-Putty and Hard Erasers
-Pencil Sharpener
-Sketchbook

Appropriate clothes for wet weather just in case

Concessions

Unfortunately, we do not offer concessions on our Summer School courses.

All of our course rates are subsidised and we also offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses.

Image: 'Greenwich' by Oliver Macdonald Oulds

Tutors

Jeanette Barnes

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