School of Expressive Arts After-School Club


The Sixth Form Bolton is proud to offer an exciting after-school club for pupils with a passion for Art and Design, and for those interested in pursuing a career within the creative industries.

These sessions will support you to learn and develop a wide range of expressive art skills. In the final week there will be an opportunity to showcase the new skills you have learnt.

Venue: The Sixth Form Bolton

Course cost: £20 per course to be paid in full in advance

Duration: 6-week course

Dates: 11 January 2024 -15 February 2024

Day: Thursday, 4.30pm-6.00pm

Age group: Year 10 - Year 11 pupils

To book your place please contact us on: afterschoolclubs@bolton-sfc.ac.uk

WEEKS 1 AND 2: FINE ART

Giant, expressive, colourful, painting workshop: An introduction into working ambitiously. Learn how to enlarge images quickly and then have fun creating a very large-scale painting using expressive mark making and brush strokes.

WEEKS 3 AND 4: GRAPHIC DESIGN

From sketch to vector: An introduction to Adobe Illustrator’s image making tools you will get to know the pen tool, shape, colour and gradient tools, as well as shape builder and pathfinder tools to create a vector illustration.

WEEKS 5 AND 6: ART, CRAFT & DESIGN

Create your own sculptural needle felted artwork: Using one simple needle, learn how to sculpt life-like or abstract, soft-sculptural pieces of work, from pieces of food, to animals or a vibrant patterned piece of art!

Image of graohic design artwork
Image of two students creating artwork
Image of artwork with 'Save our Ocean' titile
Image of two hands creating artwork
Image of student sewing
Image of paint brush and palaette



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