Summer Block in Studio Arts
Flexible & short Summer art course
Ready to boost your art skills this summer? Join our short summer course and dive into Barcelona’s art scene! Learn, create and explore with our team of experienced artist and tutors.
Don’t miss out on this chance to grow as an artist, learn new things and have fun in a supportive environment. With classes seven days a week and flexible scheduling, there’s something for everyone.
| 2025 | 1 WEEK | 2 WEEKS |
|---|---|---|
| Start dates: | 7th, 14th July, 2025 | 7th July, 2025 |
| Prices: | 395€ | 710€ |
Sun and art production
Students work in the studios (open 7 days a week, until 23:00 hrs) and make the most of all Metàfora’s large and wonderful outdoor patios, where anyone can comfortably set up an easel or a work table.
Grow as an artist
Develop your artistic discourse
- Learn a variety of techniques to express your creativity
- New workshops every week
- Get a taste of our conceptual classes.
Working spaces
- Individual studio spaces
- Studios open until 23:00 every day, including weekends.
- Large working rooms upon reservation
- Two outdoor patios
Scheduled classes and workshops
Program
WEEK 1
CLAY SCULPTING
Technical workshop to discover and understand the characteristics of the clay as a modelling, malleable material. You are gonna be able to make sculptures using different types of clay by both addition and subtraction techniques. Empty volumes from coil system, carving from a block or additing manner, even making thin works with internal skeleton required. Instructions for drying and cooking the sculptures.
CIANOTYPES
Cyanotypes is a photographic technique, using sunlight and a harmless chemical reaction. Discover “blue magic”. It is a slow-reacting, economical photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near ultraviolet and blue light spectrum, known as UVA radiation. It produces a cyan-blue print used for art as monochrome imagery applicable on a range of supports, and for reprography in the form of blueprints. The process uses only water to develop and fix.
ABSTRACT DRAWING
In this class students will work on large abstract drawings, thinking about how to make marks that don’t represent the visual reality we see but instead the non-tangible reality that feels just as real to us. How we can capture sensations with lines, forms, smudges and accidents. The class is primarily about mark-making and experimenting. About touch, about how we can make different marks and if these different marks can mean or represent something simply by the way they are laid down on paper.
WEEK 2
PRINTMAKING
Technical workshop for making a serial edition of a print. Printmaking is the process of reproducing professional copies of the same image by using artisanal printing techniques. In this workshop we will learn two techniques: Linocut and Drypoint Etching. Prints are created by transferring ink from a matrix to a sheet of paper with the help of a paper press. The resulting prints are usually part of a limited edition, numbered and signed.Usually we finish with a Printing Market Exchange between all the participants.
BODY MOLDS
Technical workshop using alginate as a flexible material for casting real human body parts and to get an hyperrealistic copy. Mold making tricks and casting materials and methods. Cleaning the copy, joining the parts and finishing for presentation. Discovering of this natural and healthy safe material for getting incredible reproductions directly from a real body.
ABSTRACT PAINTING
Students will think about how to translate their drawings and notes into finished abstract paintings; how do we turn our rough sketches into finalised pieces? If students have done the abstract drawing class from the previous week, these drawings will be used as a starting point for this class. How and when do we use an expanse of colour differently to the dots and dashes of a drawing? How do we choose a palette of colours if we can use any colour we want? Does it matter? Can we conjure up a good painting from a piece of writing? From nothing at all?
Sign up to the Summer Block
Next step: choose your dates
Once you have paid for your course, your place is confirmed.
A member of our admissions team will contact you, asking for your dates and will help solve any queries you might have.
