Drawing is a fundamental skill that applies to all areas of art and design. Learning to draw helps you learn to see, and to translate what you see into a two dimensional image. Drawing courses at Rosetta Art Centre teach you to draw what you can see but also to draw what you can imagine, allowing you to creatively explore the process and interpret reality into your own vision.

We offer one-session-per-week courses in drawing, as well as residential courses where you can stay on location over a weekend and immerse yourself in creativity.

Current Courses:

Start Date: January 2012
Course Length: Six weeks, one session per week
Session Length: 2 hours
Location: Rosetta Rathbone Art Studios
Course cost: £350

This course runs over six weeks, two hours per week and aims to encourage fresh and exciting approaches to drawing to broaden drawing and mark-making experience. There will be a strong emphasis on experimentation with line, tone, colour and texture. A range of different approaches to drawing and mark-making will be introduced using a variety of media, working with traditional and non-traditional tools such as sticks, carrots, combs, etc., to create expressive figurative and abstract works of art. Alternative methods of drawing, including mono-printing, sgraffito and collage effects will also be explored.
The course will take place at the Rosetta Rathbone Studios in Canning Town.

By the end of the course you will have:

- Experimented with a wide range of drawing media.
- Explored a range of traditional and alternative approaches to drawing.
- Learnt effective visual strategies for building up simple figurative, semi-abstract or abstract compositions.

Course level and skills required:

This course is open to anybody with an interest in drawing from complete beginners to the more advanced learners who want to expand their experience and practice of drawing and mark-making in a spirit of experimentation. Demonstrations of all techniques will be given and supported with hand-outs. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?

Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Painting, all awarded by City & Guilds at level 2 or 3, for you to progress onto. The 2011-12 programmes includes a ten week Award or a one year Certificate course at level 2, or a two year Certificate course at level 3.

Start Date: January 2012
Course Length: One session
Session Length: 2 hours
Location: Rosetta Art Centre
Course cost: £60

This one off session give you a great introduction to broadening drawing and mark-making experience. There will be a strong emphasis on experimentation with line, tone, colour and texture. A range of different approaches to drawing and mark-making will be introduced using a variety of media, working with traditional and non-traditional tools such as sticks, carrots, combs, etc., to create expressive figurative and abstract works of art. Alternative methods of drawing, including mono-printing, sgraffito and collage effects will also be explored.

By the end of the session you will have:

- Experimented with a range of drawing media.
- Explored a range of traditional and alternative approaches to drawing.
- Learnt effective visual strategies for building up simple figurative, semi-abstract or abstract compositions.

Session level and skills required:

This session is open to anybody with an interest in drawing from complete beginners to the more advanced learners who want to expand their experience and practice of drawing and mark-making in a spirit of experimentation. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the session, what else can I do to improve my skills?

Rosetta Art Centre offers longer courses in Drawing for you to progress onto. Drawing is the essential ingredient to all visual art forms. It will inform any medium that you choose to explore. See the range of other courses Rosetta Art Centre has to offer.