semi-abstraction to abstraction, brief overview

This course offers you the opportunity to take your own personal journey towards semi-abstraction and abstraction. Intended to show members how they can take this journey on a well structured course, yet flexible enough to allow for individual choices.

Remember, working this way gives you complete freedom as an artist. No restrictions as there's no right or wrong way of doing it. It's simply down to your own creativity, but often this needs to nurtured.

Course will be ongoing through the year and will develop in an organic way. Though structured to teach from the very basics, how to create and develop an idea into a finished piece of art, or series, the course will be flexible to enable the participants to have an input so that everyone gets the maximum outcome. You will be encouraged to work on your own initiative away from class. This could be exploring ideas, researching like-minded artists to further your own knowledge. More on this in class.

It's intended to run a taster session at Lydiate parish hall on Sunday December 15th. 10am to 3pm. Will focus on the first criteria, how to come up with an idea, then developing that idea in drawing & sketching.

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Syllabus for the first few once a month class (second Sunday of each month 10am to 3pm. Fee £35 per Sunday on going through the year. Or weekly class (Wednesday afternoons 1pm to 3, fee £130 for 10 consecutive weeks then re-enrolling, ongoing through the year) both at Lydiate parish hall 288 Southport rd, L31 4EQ)

The class will be a very friendly and interactive class, where we learn from each other, as opposed to struggling on one’s own at home, for example.

It’s easy to be put off from experimenting working towards semi-abstraction, eventually full abstraction, as it’s such a wide-ranging subject and therefore easy to stumble and get lost!

For this reason, it’s intended that the class will develop from the very basics, starting with semi-abstraction through to abstraction, done over a period of 12 months. A step-by-step approach to ensure a thorough understanding of each process before moving on to the next stage.

Also to encourage you to work at home with a combination of research and practice. This approach to art is very creative and doing the research will be enjoyable and rewarding, as it will reveal ways of doing art differently that would otherwise not occur to us or appearing too difficult to make a start.

Class one (either second Sunday monthly all day 10am to 3pm, or weekly Wednesday afternoons 1pm to 3.

• Getting to know each other, explaining what we’ve done in the past, what you are seeking for the future.
• What do we mean by ‘semi-abstract & abstract art’? As this is a wide area of art practice, we need to start to get an understanding of the differences.
• Discussion on coming up with ideas, though on the first class you will be provided with two subjects (feel free to bring images of your own if you prefer, but make them simple).
• When making semi-abstract & abstract art, the most important thing to remember is that you can’t go ‘wrong’. There are no rules, as in academic drawing/painting. This is why you need guidance, otherwise you will find it almost impossible to break out of working purely representational.

Once you have half of an idea, Varsha and Roy will then talk & demonstrate you through various was of drawing & sketching processes to reveal the different ways to help you to develop the idea further.

Below, a simple example of how we can experiment if working from a photo. Remember, you will probably do several sketches to develop the final composition which you’re happy with and ready to commit to a final piece.

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