Short courses

Colour, light and space: theory into practice

Six-day practical and theoretical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

1—6 September 2018

The British Academy Room and The Clore Learning Centre, Royal Academy, Burlington Gardens

A unique and immersive week-long practical and theoretical course exploring colour, light and space in art using a variety of media including dry and wet drawing materials, collage, oil and acrylic paints.

£2,400. Includes all materials, light refreshments and lunch each day and drinks receptions throughout the week.

Short courses

Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: making light visible

Evening session

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

Tuesday 25 September 2018
6.15 — 9.15pm

The Sir Hugh Casson Room, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly

An exclusive opportunity for Friends and Academicians’ Room members to enjoy monthly life-drawing sessions in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. This month’s session concentrates on light and shade.

£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.

Short courses

Oceania symposium

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

Thursday 27 September 2018
11.30am — 6.30pm

The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

This symposium explores the power and diversity of Oceanic art, and the politics of its circulation, interpretation and curation today.

£45. Includes a complimentary ticket to the Oceania exhibition.

Short courses

Anatomical drawing

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 29 September 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 30 September 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Life Room, Royal Academy Schools

Artist, writer and broadcaster Dr Sarah Simblet will lead a detailed examination of the human body, explored through the eyes of the artist. With particular reference to physicality and aesthetic beauty, Sarah Simblet will make use of works from the RA’s historic teaching collection, as well as life models, to explore this complex subject matter.

£420. Includes all materials, lunch, and wine reception.

Short courses

Understanding the human form

Five-week practical evening course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 3 October 2018, 6.15 — 9.15pm
• 10 October 2018, 6.15 — 9.15pm
• 17 October 2018, 6.15 — 9.15pm
• 24 October 2018, 6.15 — 9.15pm
• 31 October 2018, 6.15 — 9.15pm

The Life Room, RA Schools, Royal Academy of Arts

With practising artists Adele Wagstaff and Andy Pankhurst, learn the essentials of drawing and explore anatomy and the human form in the Royal Academy’s historic Life Room, a purpose-built space for life drawing.

£420 Includes all materials, light refreshments and a drinks reception at the end of the final session.

Short courses

Stolen! How, when and why?

Ten-week art history and theory course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

9 October — 11 December 2018

The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts.

A distinguished line-up of academics and art-world professionals investigate the rationale behind and impact of the theft of paintings from public institutions, with insight into the world of art crime.

6.30–8.00pm each week (registration from 6pm). £420 for full course, £260 for weeks 1–5 OR weeks 6–10. Includes all materials and light refreshments throughout.

Short courses

Imagining Oceania: contesting histories, creating futures

Weekend-long art history course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 13 October 2018, 10am — 5pm
• 14 October 2018, 10am — 5pm

Wolfson British Academy Room, 6 Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Join leading art historian Dr Kathryn Brown to explore the entangled narratives of Oceanic and European art, the legacies of colonialism and the breath-taking contemporary art of the Pacific Islands.

£420. Includes all materials, light refreshments at the beginning of each day and wine reception at the end of day one.

Short courses

Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: weight

Evening session

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

Tuesday 23 October 2018
6.15 — 9.15pm

The Sir Hugh Casson Room, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts

An exclusive opportunity for Friends and Academicians’ Room members to enjoy monthly life-drawing sessions in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. This month’s session concentrates on representing weight.

£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.

Short courses

How to build, prime and paint a canvas

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 27 October 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 28 October 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Led by award-winning painter and figurative artist Andy Pankhurst, this practical course will teach the traditional techniques used to build and prepare a canvas, as well as how to use oil paints to paint from life.

£480. Includes all materials, lunch and a wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Painting set free

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 3 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 4 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Artist Virginia Verran leads a course focused on experimenting with oil paint, using light, transparency and fluidity of expression to explore creative responses to paintings on postcards.

£480. Includes all materials, lunch and a wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Drawing and painting inventively

Five-week practical evening course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 7 November 2018, 6.30 — 9.30pm
• 14 November 2018, 6.30 — 9.30pm
• 21 November 2018, 6.30 — 9.30pm
• 28 November 2018, 6.30 — 9.30pm
• 5 December 2018, 6.30 — 9.30pm

The Life Room, RA Schools, Royal Academy of Arts

Artist Emyr Williams explores inventive approaches to drawing and colour painting. Each week will present a new set of challenges that connect painting to drawing in unforeseen ways while building confidence and technique.

£480. Includes all materials, light refreshments and a drinks reception at the end of the final session.

Short courses

Drawing: the essentials

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 10 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 11 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Life Room, RA Schools, Royal Academy of Arts

Study the fundamentals of drawing in this back-to-basics practical course. Participants will work from especially selected objects and male and female life models to explore line, tone, perspective, scale, measuring and foreshortening.

Price: £420 Includes all materials, lunch and wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Sketching into painting

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 17 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 18 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

This intensive weekend course will take as its starting point the Klimt / Schiele exhibition, with particular focus on Gustav Klimt’s use of preparatory sketches in the design of his paintings and friezes.

£420. Includes all materials, lunch and wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Contemporary art valuation

Two-day art business course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 17 November 2018, 10am — 5pm
• 18 November 2018, 10am — 5pm

Wolfson British Academy Room, 6 Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts.

Anna Dempster and Anna Lipskaya return to lead a weekend course on art valuation. The course offers practical insights into one of the most opaque aspects of the art world, focused on the exciting sector of contemporary art.

£540. Includes all materials, light refreshments, lunch and a wine reception at the end of day one.

Short courses

Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: surface form

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

Tuesday 20 November 2018
6.15 — 9.15pm

The Sir Hugh Casson Room, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts

An exclusive opportunity for Friends and Academicians’ Room members to enjoy monthly life-drawing sessions in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. This month’s session concentrates on surface and form.

£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.

Short courses

Learning to draw: from pencil to pixel to iPad

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 24 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 25 November 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Life Room, RA Schools, Royal Academy of Arts

In a contemporary update to the venerable legacies of drawing from life and from antique casts, this course explores both traditional media and Apple’s iPad Pro and Apple Pencil technologies.

£420 Includes all materials, lunch and wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Origins of painting: from cave to Cleopatra

Weekend-long art history course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 24 November 2018, 10am — 5pm
• 25 November 2018, 10am — 5pm

General Assembly Room, Burlington House, Piccadilly

This weekend course, led by antiquities expert Judith Nugée, explores the rich and sophisticated origins of painting in the ancient world.

£420. Includes all materials, light refreshments at the beginning of each day and wine reception at the end of day one.

Short courses

Nuda Veritas: the pleasure of collage

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 1 December 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 2 December 2018, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Using the Klimt / Schiele exhibition as a starting point, this two-day mixed media course led by artist Sadie Hennessy will explore themes inspired by the erotic image.

£360. Includes all materials, lunch and a wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Connoisseurship: who painted what, when and how to tell

Two-day short course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 1 December 2018, 10am — 5pm
• 2 December 2018, 10am — 5pm

Wolfson British Academy Room, 6 Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Following the stellar success of his previous courses, renowned art historian and dealer Dr Bendor Grosvenor returns to the Royal Academy of Arts to lead an intensive weekend course focusing on connoisseurship – relevant for art lovers, collectors and art-world professionals.

£540. Includes all materials, light refreshments, lunch and a wine reception.

Short courses

Preparing to paint a portrait

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 26 January 2019, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 27 January 2019, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

Explore the preparatory methods used by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and develop ideas for a portrait painting in this practical course, led by former President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Robin-Lee Hall.

£420. Includes all materials, lunch and a wine reception at the end of the first day.

Short courses

Tots to teenagers: representations of childhood in Western Art

Two-day art history and theory course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 16 February 2019, 10am — 5pm
• 17 February 2019, 10am — 5pm

Wolfson British Academy Room, 6 Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts

This unconventional art history course led by expert Sophie Oosterwijk offers unique insights into the history of childhood through its presentation in western art.

£420. Includes all materials, light refreshments at the beginning of each day and wine reception at the end of day one.

Short courses

Small-scale sculpture

Weekend-long practical course

● Fully booked

● Cancelled

• 23 February 2019, 10.30am — 5.30pm
• 24 February 2019, 10.30am — 5.30pm

The Clore Learning Centre, Royal Academy, Burlington Gardens

This course encourages participants to explore the meaning of sculpture in both a personal and a practical sense, using a diverse range of non-traditional art materials, techniques and objects to create unique small scale pieces.

£420. Includes all materials, lunch and a wine reception at the end of the first day.