Online Courses: Artists' Techniques and Methods
Course Overview
The Artists’ Techniques and Methods course will introduce you to a number of key works in Tate's collection and examine the techniques the artists' used to create their work. You will look at a range of techniques from drawing, watercolour, collage, and oil painting. The course is divided into six units:
- Gaudier-Brzeska's Drawing Techniques
- Collage Techniques
- Turner and Watercolour
- Pre-Raphaelite Composition and Symbolism
- Whistler's Oil Techniques
- Richard Hamilton and Mixed Media
Each unit examines different artists in Tate's collection and looks at how they created their work. The units contain video clips and step-by-step guides to using the techniques to create your own art works at home.
Each unit is accompanied by a downloadable worksheet that you can print out and follow in your own time. You are encouraged to upload images of your work and share them with other students on the course via an online image gallery. You can also pose questions to other course students on the online discussion forum.
The course is designed to be fun and engaging but is not tutored or accredited, and does not count towards any official qualification. However, when you have completed all the units on the course, you will be issued with a Tate certificate that you can download and print out.
There is no time limit for the course and you can spend as much or as little time on each unit as you like. Once you have purchased the course and received your login details, you will have unlimited access to the course website and content. After you have completed the units and received your certificate, you will still be able to upload images of your own work and contribute to the discussion forum.
If you have any questions regarding the online course, please email onlinecourses@tate.org.uk.