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Life drawing - Spring

Course code: QCAT105P

Subject area: Art & Design

Study level: Part Time

Course level: E

Course details

6:45pm - 9:15pm

Thursday

12th Jan 2023 - 30th Mar 2023

Abingdon Campus

Contact details

enquiries@abingdon-witney.ac.uk

01235 555 585

Apply for this course

This course allows you to progress and consolidate your learning at your own pace. This can accommodate complete beginners and those with some prior experience of life drawing, including some who have completed this course previously.

The course content includes:

· Looking at ways to represent the model

· Composition.

· Drawing in pencil, charcoal and pastel.

· Mark making exercises.

· Perspective.

· Proportions of the head.

· Line construction and tonal drawing.

· Introduction to human anatomy.

· Experiments with style.

Do not buy any materials until your course is confirmed as running.

For the first session please bring:

- A small set of good graphite pencils ranging from HB to 6B such as Derwent or Faber Castell. A good rubber/eraser such as Windsor and Newton or Faber Castell, (not a plastic rubber as they smear), A box of willow charcoal, (medium sticks). Drawing paper: a good cartridge pad A3 or A2. Cartridge paper is heavy slightly rough paper that has been prepared for drawing, it comes in weights 150gsm to 300gsm. Cheap paper is usually smooth and difficult to shade on, although you might like to get a cheap pad as well for quick exercises.

Please note there will be no session on 16/02/2023

Abingdon and Witney College is subject to Ofsted regulation and is required to work with all its students to make sure they understand Government initiatives around Safeguarding, Prevent and Fundamental British Values. Information on these matters will be shared with you during your course.

You will also be asked to complete monitoring paperwork, which helps us to deliver course content to the highest quality.

Life Drawing is an inexhaustible subject and unless you are Michelangelo then there is always more to learn, therefore learners could enrol for further life drawing lessons. That said, if you can draw the human figure then you are well placed to go on to study painting in a medium of your choice.
Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.

For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2022 prior to starting the course.
Learners are expected to provide their own materials, which might cost up to £20. Please do not purchase materials until the course is confimred as running


Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.

Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.

If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.

Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.

The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.

16 - 18 Fee

19+ Fee

Tuition Fee: £151.25
Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £151.25

19+ Reduced Fee

Tuition Fee: £90.75
Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £90.75

As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. However, you will be asked to complete activities that demonstrate how you are progressing on your course.
As this is a not accredited informal methods of assessment will be used.

Observation/Demonstration

Self-assessment

Question & answer/reading

Practical exercises

1:1 tutor support

You will be required to complete a RARPA form which represents Recognising and Recording your Progress and Achievement.

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