Organisers of international street art festival Nuart have joined up with a college and university in Aberdeen to give students the opportunity to brush up their art skills.

The team behind Nuart Aberdeen have joined forces with North East Scotland College (NESCOL) and Robert Gordon University (RGU) to offer students the chance to work alongside artists from this year's festival while they are in the Granite City.

The festival will take place from April 12 to April 15 and is set to attract thousands of visitors into the city centre.

Now in its second year, the festival will host a team of international, national and local artists to develop their latest works on walls around the city centre.

During the festival, Scottish artists Ciaran Glöbel and Elki will host creative workshops with art and design students from NESCOL and RGU's Gray's School of Art.

Glöbel will introduce people to the basic techniques and materials used in sign painting, and Elki will hold a stencil workshop.

Working from photographs as his source material, Elki can spend up to 200 hours hand cutting a single image.

Chief executive of Aberdeen Inspired, Adrian Watson, said: "Exciting as it is to bring some of the best street artists in the world to Aberdeen, a key fundamental for us is to build a legacy where art and culture is open to all and people feel that.

"This represents a fantastic opportunity for students to work with our Nuart artists to learn more about two distinctive styles of street art which they can add to their skills portfolio.

"An important part of the Nuart Aberdeen programme is to give back to the local community and get people involved and the workshops will help to spark the imagination of some of the city's most creative art and design students."