Art and Design using Mixed Media

This exciting and hands-on course offers budding young artists and designers the opportunity to develop their natural creative interests within a structured taught programme. They’ll be expertly led by their tutor Julie James, who comes from diverse creative professional background in art and design practice.

Your young artists will explore the potential of their own creativity using a range of methods and materials. This’ll give them the chance to develop a range of skills and techniques that’ll allow them to work in a variety of different mediums and combine them to create truly expressive pieces of work.

This course has been designed especially for young artists that wish to develop independent skills and advance their own creative journey through a range of materials and techniques, some of which may not be covered in their school art classes.

Your young artists will be supported to fully explore their creative talent and future potential, with the aim of helping them discover the art and design discipline that they wish to specialise in.

• Explore a range of materials and different processes
• Get to grips using a range of professional tools, equipment, and studio environments
• Contemporary design
• Experiment with different art disciplines, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and modelmaking
• Art theory
• Sustainability and environmental impact
• Develop their personal style

• Possess improved artistic skills
• Understand how to use a range of professional tools safely and effectively
• Be able to use a range of different art materials and understand which materials best suit their intentions
• Have developed a variety of traditional and contemporary design techniques
• Understand issues surrounding sustainability and the environment
• Know which art discipline they wish to specialise in
• Have increased confidence in their own skills
• Have boosted creativity and imagination
• Untap their potential and talent
• Appreciate the importance of good time management
• Be encouraged to experiment and explore their ideas
• Appreciate teamwork and team building ethics
• Feel inspired by the new skills they've learnt and from sharing ideas with new friends
• Have the foundations to continue creating beyond this course

All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Saturday Art School certificate of attendance.

After this course, your young artist could:

• Continue to harness their creativity; explore our full range of Saturday Art School courses to see where their creative journey will take them next
• Look forward to the future and the next step(s) in their creative journey by exploring AUB's Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media
• Continue to develop their skills at home as a hobby

• We understand how important young creative artists are – they've so much potential, untapped abilities, and enthusiasm
• Your young artist will study at a leading specialist university – we know what we're doing when it comes to providing unparalleled courses
• We encourage your young artist to be themselves and explore their existing interests; as such we harness their natural style and flair to enable them to develop their unique creative voice
• Our tutors are industry professionals, so they'll learn from the best
• We cater for all abilities and have no formal entry requirements for this course, so there's nothing holding your young artist back
• Your young artist will learn in a safe and encouraging environment where there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• They'll learn 'by doing' and always feel fully included, respected, and supported
• They'll benefit from our incredible campus and its industry-standard studios, and use state-of-the-art equipment and software to unleash their creativity