Level 2 Art and Design

Welcome to the UAL level two Diploma course in Art and Design at Lewes College

This course is a really good opportunity to get a broad introduction to working in art and design. It's a platform from which you can see which area you want to progress, whichever you like to specialise in, or somewhere where you can just find out more about Art and Design 

You don't need to have any particular qualifications to join this course, except for one, you just have to be enthusiastic and want to give our design a go!

We will give you all of the opportunities and skills you need to take part and to do well on this course:

We will take you through basic drawing and printing and painting as well as moving into 3D work. That's photography and some aspects of animation. As well as all this you can try your hand with graphic design and some fashion elements

The way things work it's like this: first of all, we introduce you to drawing and if you don't have much confidence in drawing, don't worry. We will show you everything you need to do to take part. Will try out different media such as working with pencils, chalk, charcoal, and other different ways that you can use materials to make drawings

As well as looking at the drawing and then moving into printmaking and painting, will also show you the way that different artists have worked. We will introduce you to a range of artists and designers so that you get an understanding on what possibilities there are and see how people worked in the past and what you can learn from their work. 

Don't worry, it won't be boring at all! 

We will be looking at really exciting and interesting artists that you don't know. We will be introducing you to ideas that they had, and showing you how they turned those ideas into paintings, drawings, designs, photographs, and other visual languages. 

We guarantee that we will introduce you to someone or some work that you have never seen before and didn’t know anything about but which, once you get to know it, you love!

After this, we will take you through different specialist units and assignments. For example, working in graphics, possibly working with computer software like Photoshop and Illustrator,

Then on through other units like 3-D where you will make real, solid objects; collage where you will make pictures by cutting and glueing  things together as well as combining other media and techniques.

By the time that you've tried everything else, it will be after Christmas, and at this point, you will go into the final assignment which is called the FMP. That is the Final Major Project.