Fortnightly Art Course at St Francis Church, Bournville.

🌸 Spring Term 2025
Upcoming: Sat 7 June / Sat 21 June

☀️ Summer Term 2025 (6 classes)
Wk 1: St Lazar’s Orthodox Church (Church Hall), 6.30-8.45pm, Tue 1 July
Wk 2: Quaker Meeting House (Small Hall), 10-1pm, Sat 19 July
Wk 3-6: St Francis Church (Lower Room), 10-1pm, Sat 26 July, Sat 16 Aug, Sat 23 Aug, Sat 30 Aug

🍁 Autumn Term 2025
DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

Venue (unless otherwise specified)
- St Francis Youth & Community Centre. Lower Room with access to outdoor seating

Course
- Includes a range of supported personal projects. These may include personal studies, reproductions of classic art or pet portraits
- Develop freehand drawing & use proportional and observational techniques, including a grid system to plan your portrait
- You will be introduced to shading, layering and blending techniques (this includes colour theory and paint mixing) to produce a realistic portrait, including tips and tools required to produce a photo-real portrait
- Support with independent projects, including one to one tutoringand feedback, including demonstrations to understand the process of building up a portrait from initial sketch to completion
- Taught media includes graphite, coloured pencils, pastel pencils, oils and acrylics
- For those interested in more painting classes, look for upcoming Painting Weekend dates and ‘Paint like…’ courses, reproducing a classic or contemporary portrait

Facilities
- Free car parking / toilets accessible
- Resources included (dry media / wet media, pencils and brushes, drawing papers, including white and toned)
- Refreshments included
- Students welcome to bring own specialist resources

Class Cancellations
In the instance that a course isn’t able to run due to low numbers, bad weather or illness, the tutor will update students and offer an alternative in-person or Zoom date.

Student cancellations
If a student is unable to attend a booked class, they will be offered a chance to catch up on a Zoom class. See ‘Friday Art Night on Zoom’ tab for more information.

About the Tutor 👨🏻‍🎨
Milan is a portrait artist and illustrator based in Birmingham. Milan has delivered drawing courses as a tutor a mac Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts and wellbeing classes at Selfridges and Resorts World Birmingham. During his career, Milan has produced portraits which featured on limited edition vinyl art for Florence + the Machine. Most recently, he produced a mural honouring the career of Rik Mayall featuring a regal portrait depicting Mayall as the King of Comedy.

Testimonials

”Milan is a fantastic tutor. He creates a really welcoming, friendly and supportive environment to learn and genuinely goes above and beyond to help students to achieve their personal goals”

- James, Zoom student

”I went and I was immediately hooked. Nearly five years later and he’s still patiently guiding me through work I didn’t believe I was capable of even trying”