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:1487@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170207T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170207T210000 DTSTAMP:20161116T090311Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-dot-art-beginners-acryl ic-painting/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: dot-art: Beginners Acrylic Painting 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 reknowned artist and experienced teacher Richard Meaghan. Begin ners Acrylic Painting\, Suitable for beginners.\n\n***To avoid a booking f ee and pay by card\, cheque or cash\, please contact dot-art Services dire ctly on 0345 017 6660***\n\nBOOK HERE\n\nTuesdays 6.45pm-9pm starting 7th February 2017 (£160 for 10 sessions)\n\n\nProgram\n\n\nThis painting cour se will be open to all abilities from complete beginners who haven’t don e art since school\, to those who use art as a hobby\, as well as artists wanting help developing their own work and practise.\n\n\nOver the course of 10 weeks\, you will develop your awareness of painting as a unique mean s of visual communication. Through practical work you will consolidate you r knowledge of visual grammar and expand your visual literacy. You will co nsider how ideas\, information and feelings can be articulated\, transform ed and conveyed through visual systems\, processes and conventions. As wel l as having the opportunity to reflect on historical precedents and draw u pon your own experiences\, you will be encouraged to explore your own aest hetic abilities and visual judgements which will form a fundamental part o f your practise.\n\nDuring the course you will be asked to explore and dev elop ideas relating to your own "Personal Environment". This will involve the processes of research\, development of ideas and the design and produc tion of work relating to the brief.\n\nYou should focus on making work tha t 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 imagi ne it. It could also relate to hobbies or interests\, film\, media\, polit ics\, religion\, sport etc etc and can incorporate any number of differing experiences that make reference to who you are.\n\nAs artists we have a w hole array of interests and ideas but how do we make art with all this stu ff?\n\nThis course will give you the opportunity to use your imagination a nd develop those inventive processes alongside traditional and contemporar y techniques. You will make art as an artist does and develop your project from its conceptual beginning to its physical end. The course will help y ou develop a deeper understanding of art and how as practitioners we think and realise work.\n\nThis course provides skill based learning in order t o deepen the understanding and applications of the visual language that su rrounds us. During the 10 weeks you will build up to the creation of your own finished painting in acrylics as follows:\n\nWeek 1: The importance of drawing (gradation study).\nWeek 2: Colour theory.\nWeek 3: Underpainting (grisaille study).\nWeek 4: Chroma (still life study).\nWeek 5: Invention and composition.\nWeeks 6-10: Individual project.\n\nTutor: Richard Meagh an\n\nProfessional artist Richard is currently based in a studio at Metal in Liverpool. He studied Fine Art at Staffordshire university\, and on gra duating\, was awarded a travel grant to study Renaissance Art in Italy. Th e resulting work was awarded first prize in the Sefton Open\, followed sho rtly with his first solo Public exhibition at the Atkinson Art gallery\, S outhport.\n\nMeaghan was chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibi t alongside Turner Prize winners Chris Ofili and Keith Tyson in ‘Exposed - Art and Culture in England’s North West’ and was shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize in 2009. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has future exhibitions planned for Liverpool\, London\ , Copenhagen\, Denmark\, Berlin\, Germany and Brussels\, Belgium.\n\nDates \n\nWinter Session 2017\, Tuesday evenings from 6.45-9pm\n\n7th\, 14th\, 2 1st\, 28th February\n\n7th\, 21st\, 28th March\n\n4th\, 11th\, 18th April. \n\nVenue\n\nBluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\n\nSituated in th e centre of Liverpool\, just behind Church Street\, down Church Alley and in front of Liverpool ONE. You can enter the building via the front courty ard off School Lane\, or through the garden 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 advance)\n\nIt is possible to split this cost into two payments of £80\, please call 0345 017 6660 for more details.\n\nBOOK HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/11/dot-art-beginners-acrylic.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:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR