Explore your creativity through mixed media

What is the course about?

This course will help you build your confidence and start exploring drawing, painting, responding to the world around you and working with your imagination and ideas. 

 What topics will you cover:  

• Explore expressive mark making through a range of different media.  

• How to work with subjects and themes to trigger new ideas and creative thinking.  

• How to look at your surroundings to record and make your own responses.  

• How to develop your creativity further.  

 Materials and processes include:  

 Collage, mixed media, mark making with pastels-charcoal-paint, acrylics, watercolours and   monoprint.  

 Contextual exploration of other artists’ works and techniques.  

 What will I achieve?  

 By the end of this course, you should be able to  …  

• Employ a broad range of 2D creative techniques in a variety of media.

• Record and develop your own creative ideas.  

• Identify ways in which to take your creativity further.  

 How will I be taught? What kind of activities will I be doing?  

 Practical demonstrations, working in small groups and individually.  

What will I need to bring? Where can I get this? What do we provide?  

Basic materials and equipment will be provided:

Soft  Pastels, Acrylic paint, Magazines,  craft knifes or Stanley knifes  

You  are  welcome  to  use  any  other  art  materials  you  may  already  have  such  as  oil  pastels,  acrylic paint  and coloured paper.

When I have finished, what course can I do next?  

Westway Trust Sketching around North Kensington course starting on 2 July 2026.