Creative Discovery by Rachel Kerslake
June 12 @ 1:30 pm - July 17 @ 4:30 pm
£240
Six week course, Thursday afternoons, 1.30-4.30pm, led by Rachel Kerslake.
During the Creative Discovery course, you will be guided to explore your unique art style and artist voice by experimenting with different mediums, materials and techniques. You will create a variety of reference materials and creative content that will form of personal library of ideas, sketches, studies and reflections. The final session will be dedicated to compiling the materials into coherent journals to guide your ongoing creative process. When you complete the course, you will have your own artistic reference library that you can use to inspire future art projects.
This course is not about creating finished pieces of art, but is designed to provide a safe and supportive space where you can step out of your creative comfort zone and explore new directions. This course is suitable for creating reference material for any art form, not just painting.
Week 1: Introduction to artist voice and reference materials – understand how to develop your own artist voice means and explore different ways to generate reference materials (sketches, studies, inspirations).
Week 2: Exploring materials and techniques – experiment with different materials and techniques to create a diverse body of reference material.
Week 3: Developing personal themes and visual storytelling – focus on exploring and developing personal themes, stories, and concepts in visual form.
Week 4: Abstract exploration – experiment with abstracting your sketches and studies to create reference material that focuses on ideas and telling stories, rather than literal representation.
Week 5 Refining and organising reference material – begin refining and selecting the reference material. Start finalising your content and organising the visual library for the final sketchbook.
Week 6 Compiling the creative journal – finalise the reference library and compile the most successful work into a creative journal or sketchbook for future use.
Materials:
This course will encourage you to explore mixed media such as acrylic, watercolour, coloured pencils, paint pens, ink, collage, simple printing, recycled paper materials etc.
I will provide basic materials – and please to bring your own materials to explore with as well. A list of recommended supplies will be provided.
You’ll create a mood board to inspire your work
Explore different ways to develop reference materials
Explore personal themes and ideas
Experiment with pattern, colour and mark-making
Your creative journal can inspire future work
Explore ideas to help you find your voice
You’ll create a mood board to inspire your work