Drawing is the starting block for all visual art.
Children draw before they can read or write; why do adults falter? The more we learn about great masters from the past, or contemporary talented artists, the more we want to be like them in some way. Don’t let your admiration stop you in your tracks. I want you to steal their methods and ideas and take them on your own journey.
This course is designed to teach you about drawing, with techniques both classical and contemporary, using a variety of materials. The most important thing is to enjoy the process. The more you enjoy the process the more you will experiment, practise and explore drawing.
- Tutor, Kate Measham
- Wednesday 15, 22, 29 January
- 9.30 – 3.30
- including a light lunch and coffee, from the Glasshouse Cafe
- £255/3 workshops
- plenty of parking
- All standards welcomed, including beginners
These workshops will be held at The Glasshouse, Houghton Lodge, Houghton, nr Stockbridge SO20 6LQ
What to Expect on Drawing: Line, Shape, Mark
The more you look the more you will see. Drawing encourages you to examine your environment, to explore what is around you and how you relate to it. You discover you have choices about what you see, how you see it and how you represent it. This is what makes drawing and painting exciting.
Each week you will look at a different aspect of drawing: line, tone, mark making, measured drawing, expressive drawing, and use of different materials etc. This variety of approaches helps you to find unexpected strengths and will encourage you to explore different aspects of drawing. Each week you will look at the work of different artists to see what you can learn from their work; on the shoulders of giants.
There will be suggested homework.
Materials
This list is the essential elements.
At times I will want you to bring something extra for the following lesson. At other times I might bring materials with me for the class to use.
The sketchbook is for you to use in your own time, to take notes, to sketch your coffee cup, to stick in articles from the papers, whatever you fancy. This is a place to doodle, draw, glue, think, play, mess about. I have small, light weight sketchbooks I keep in my handbag to use when I’m in a cafe, on a train, whenever.
If you want help with this list please ask.
- A4 sketchbook
- pad of A2 cartridge paper
- 1 roll of wall lining paper (B&Q basic will be fine)
- charcoal (mixed sizes)
- sharpie pens – black
- pencils – don’t buy a set because they fill it with HBs and Hs which we don’t want. 3Bs, 5Bs, 7Bs and 9Bs.
- pop up pencils (Tesco’s own brand pack are very cheap)
- Sharpener, eraser
- pritt stick
- scissors – please name
- masking tape