BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4443@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190205T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190205T210000 DTSTAMP:20190104T170727Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-chambers-beginner-acryl ic-painting-by-dot-art/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat Chambers: Beginner Acrylic Painting by dot-art DESCRIPTION:\n\nExplore and investigate a broad range of traditional and co ntemporary painting processes and practices\, focusing on the use of acryl ics\, with renowned artist and experienced teacher Richard Meaghan. Suitab le for beginners.\n\n***To avoid a booking fee and pay by card\, cheque or cash\, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660***\n\nTu esdays 6.45pm - 9pm starting 5th February 2019 (£160 for 10 sessions)\n\n \nProgram\n\n\nThis painting course will be open to all abilities from com plete beginners who haven’t done art since school\, to those who use art as a hobby\, as well as artists wanting help developing their own work an d practise.\n\n\nOver the course of 10 weeks\, you will develop your aware ness of painting as a unique means of visual communication. Through practi cal work you will consolidate your knowledge of visual grammar and expand your visual literacy. You will consider how ideas\, information and feelin gs can be articulated\, transformed and conveyed through visual systems\, processes and conventions. As well as having the opportunity to reflect on historical precedents and draw upon your own experiences\, you will be en couraged to explore your own aesthetic abilities and visual judgements whi ch will form a fundamental part of your practise.\n\nDuring the course you will be asked to explore and develop ideas relating to your own "Personal Environment". This will involve the processes of research\, development o f ideas and the design and production of work relating to the brief.\n\nYo u should focus on making work that relates to your own experience of being in the world. This may relate to home or work life\, landscape or nature as you see it\, remember or imagine it. It could also relate to hobbies or interests\, film\, media\, politics\, religion\, sport etc etc and can in corporate any number of differing experiences that make reference to who y ou are.\n\nAs artists we have a whole array of interests and ideas but how do we make art with all this stuff?\n\nThis course will give you the oppo rtunity to use your imagination and develop those inventive processes alon gside traditional and contemporary techniques. You will make art as an art ist does and develop your project from its conceptual beginning to its phy sical end. The course will help you develop a deeper understanding of art and how as practitioners we think and realise work.\n\nThis course provide s skill based learning in order to deepen the understanding and applicatio ns of the visual language that surrounds us. During the 10 weeks you will build up to the creation of your own finished painting in acrylics as foll ows:\n\nWeek 1: The importance of drawing (gradation study).\nWeek 2: Colo ur theory.\nWeek 3: Underpainting (grisaille study).\nWeek 4: Chroma (stil l life study).\nWeek 5: Invention and composition.\nWeeks 6-10: Individual project.\n\nTutor: Richard Meaghan\n\nProfessional artist Richard is curr ently based in a studio at Metal in Liverpool. He studied Fine Art at Staf fordshire university\, and on graduating\, was awarded a travel grant to s tudy Renaissance Art in Italy. The resulting work was awarded first prize in the Sefton Open\, followed shortly with his first solo Public exhibitio n at the Atkinson Art gallery\, Southport.\n\nMeaghan was chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibit alongside Turner Prize winners Chris Of ili and Keith Tyson in ‘Exposed- Art and Culture in England’s North We st’ and was shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize in 2009. He has exhi bited widely both nationally and internationally and has future exhibition s planned for Liverpool\, London\, Copenhagen\, Denmark\, Berlin\, Germany and Brussels\, Belgium.\n\nDates\n\nWinter Session 2019\, Tuesday evening s from 6.45 - 9pm\n\n5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th February\n\n5th\, 12th\, 19t h\, 26th March\n\n2nd\, 9th April\n\nVenue\n\nBluecoat\, School Lane\, Liv erpool\, L1 3BX\n\nSituated in the centre of Liverpool\, just behind Churc h Street\, down Church Alley and in front of Liverpool ONE. You can enter the building via the front courtyard off School Lane\, or through the gard en at the back off College Lane. Nearest train station- Liverpool Central. \n\nCost\n\n£160 for the 10 week course (full course must be booked in ad vance)\n\nIt is possible to split this cost into two payments of £80\, pl ease call 0345 017 6660 for more details.\n\nMaterials\n\nYou will need to provide your own materials\, a full list will be provided 2-3 weeks befor e the start of the course.\n\nIf you would like to access the materials li sts at an earlier date\, please click on our suggested prefilled Cass Art Basket below\, which offers you a 5% discount on everything you will need for the course. You are more than welcome to add or remove items from thi s basket.\n\nhttps://www.cassart.co.uk/dot-art-acrylic\n\nNotes\n\n There are a maximum of 15 places available on the course\, so early booking is essential.\n To avoid a booking fee and pay by card\, cheque or cash\, pl ease contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/01/beginner-acrylic-painting-dot-art.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR