ART MASTERCLASS

ART MASTERCLASS

Join us in store at Manchester Exchange Square for a series of art workshops hosted by Manchester Creative Art Courses. Explore the different art movements, while learning about the techniques and skills needed to create your own beautiful pieces of art. Enjoy complimentary cheese and wine on the evening (because that's what artists eat and drink right?).

Tickets are £10 and fully redeemable in store on the day.

EXPRESSIONISM: 6 MARCH
Personal Colour & Gesture

Explore emotive non-realistic colour, distorted shapes and gestural mark making to express your inner moods and feelings. Expressionist artists often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world.

Discover your own colour preferences and expand your mark making skills while creating personalised self-expressive still life drawings.

REALISM TO ABSTRACTION: 13 MARCH
Keeping it Simple.

Travel the journey from Realism to Abstraction and create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrain. Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.

Learn some of the principles of abstraction to create your own artwork, based on simple ideal forms.

RE-INTERPRETING STILL LIFE: 20 MARCH
A creative approach

This workshop explores how we can make drawings that really do depict our life experiences of a 3D world on a piece of paper. With inspiration from contemporary living artists we will explore new ways of making our own inspired, personally creative still life drawings with an imaginative twist.

Experience this in a dynamic class and create drawings that are unusual.

CREATIVE DRAWING: 27 MARCH
Self Expression

Free your imagination through exploring the art of drawing in its purest form. You will be encouraged to move beyond realism and representation by trusting your innate imagination, intuition and sense of play. A variety of exercises will help free your imagination and develop your mark-making skills to enable you to express a new playful and expressive attitude towards making imagery.

This workshop is full of activities to help you improve your drawings making them fresh, inventive and full of self-expression.

Tickets Terms & Conditions:

Tickets are subject to availability and eligibility, and are for the specified event date only. Your ticket admits one and is personal to the recipient. Tickets are non-transferrable, non-refundable and cannot be exchanged for cash equivalent or otherwise. Selfridges reserves the right to refuse entry to any attendee and to remove any individual from the premises for any reason. Selfridges reserves the right to cancel or amend this event at any time and for any reason.

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