On this three day course you will start with a life model, drawing for reference and information. Using very rapid sculptural techniques you will construct 3D models from your drawings using paper mâché, tape, wood, and probably wire, and anything else that seems appropriate. When you start to ‘draw’ the model in 3D different information is needed – this adds to the interesting step from straight forward life drawing to sculpture.
The sculpture will become the model for your drawing and painting over the rest of the course.
This method opens your imagination to adapting the model. It sounds a bit weird and creepy – and why not? The models can take you way beyond masks, or even catrinas as seen below. The resulting drawings and paintings have an observed reality. It should be an exciting few days.
Coffee, tea, biscuits and a light lunch will be provided each day.
Some materials will be provided but you will be encouraged to use/recycle old drawings and paintings as well as other dry waste materials (egg cartons, loo roll holder, boxes, posters…who knows)
Try this link to see how other artists have used this medium Papier mâché artists
There are new classes, new courses and a few date changes over the next few months. Below are dates and brief descriptions. Click on the titles for fuller explanations about what is on offer.
The first weeks in March form the basis of all drawing and painting, ‘What is it, how big is it and where am I going to put it?’
In the second week in April is the return of this very exciting course. Day one we have a life model who you draw with the intention of building a sculpture. Day two you build a sculpture from your drawings using papier mache and anything you can find that works. Day three you will paint from your sculptures.
Following in the tradition of learning from the great masters we are going to spend the day at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It has a splendid and varied collection of works. You will see everything (!) in the museum and choose something that you are going to work with.
There will be drawing at the museum followed by two days at the Studio Bransbury copying the picture you chose and taking the ideas forward to create a piece that is all your own.
DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, PAINT, PAINT, PAINT
There will be a return to the regular Drawing and Painting sessions but they will be at the Studio at Bransbury, NOT at Ramshill. These will be suitable for all abilities and will be based on a changing Still Life.
Drawing will be mornings only, 10.00am – 1.00pm £40/morning
Painting will be all day, 10.00am – 4.00pm £80/day
Thursday, 4th April – Drawing
Thursday, 11th April – Painting
Thursday, 2nd May – Drawing
Thursday, 9th May – Painting
Thursday, 23rd May – Drawing
Thursday, 30th May – Painting
For more information, prices and times please click on the titles
At the Riverside Cottage Studio, Bransbury, SO21 3QJ
People move…
Suitable for all abilities.
In this class you will be looking at the rhythm and pattern of movement, combined with rhythm and movement in music. You will capture the model’s movement and tempo, whether explosive, calm, or repetitive.
There will be a series of exercises designed to show you different ways of interpreting the moving body. The drawings become something very different to photographs or film, but an expression of time and rhythm.
This is exciting drawing to undertake and exciting drawings to see.
This will be appropriate for any standard, from total beginner to regular practitioner. If you have aches and pains that prevent you from doing certain moves these can be accommodated.
Throughout the class you will be made aware of your body, which parts are being stretched, how you feel when relaxed etc.
After the yoga class you will be experimenting with many different sorts of marks. Particular attention will be paid to how your body feels when making these marks. Gravity, physicality, noise and irritations all play a part in what happens when you start to draw.
After these exercises our yoga teacher will become the model for the day. She will repeat the exercises from the morning class. You will have experienced the tension, pull and release of these poses. These memories will inform the drawings as you work through the day.
Some materials will be provided. Coffee and tea are available but please bring your own lunch
Christmas is over. It is time for new year’s resolutions…so what are you going to choose? Are you a ‘giver-upper’? Will it be… no more chocolate – ever? Or do you try something new…a ‘taker-upper’?
Surprisingly, the beach photo from Norfolk was taken in January 2018. How about some blue sky thinking for 2019? (try not to focus on the clouds…just enjoy the possibilities)
Oil Painting for Beginners, January 2019
You will start at the very beginning, learning about the equipment, how to mix paints and what to do next. You will be looking at tone and become used to working with oils. After these three days you will be launched into the world of oil painting.
It will be in a fun and supportive atmosphere, though possibly a bit messy. Everyone is welcome.
The boring bits
10am – 1.00pm
Saturdays 12th and 19th and 26th January, 201
£165/3 sessions
Materials, tea and coffee included
This will be held at Ramshill, East Winterslow
If you want to know more about this course please contact me Kate Measham
In Brief…for more information about each week please click on the underlined dates.
This will be held at the Studio, Riverside Cottage, Bransbury, Barton Stacey, Winchester
This is VERY flexible. You can book in for a 1 day course, 5 separate 1 day courses, a week or the whole 5 weeks (20% reduction if you commit to the whole course). Almost any combination you can think of is possible.
If you want to try the introduction week before you book for the whole 5 weeks you will still qualify for the 20% reduction…
Join us from 21st to 28th March for a week in Andalucia, painting and drawing the countryside in spring. Click on title for much, much more information.
Please click on heading for more information. If you want to join any of these courses contact me, Kate Measham, or call on 01980 863155
In 2019 we are embarking on a Drawing Course that you can approach as a whole, or pick and choose which parts suit you. Each month there are 5 days of courses. you can do all 25 days, or pick and choose what you fancy doing.
If you are uncertain you can try the introductory week and then book for the rest of the course. If you are unable to do the Introductory Week this does not mean you can’t take the rest of the course.
Each class is a stand alone class.
In Brief – for more information click on the months
Pricing is designed to encourage students to commit to themselves and take on a demanding course.
Individual classes – £90/day.
Complete course (25days) – £1,800 (20% reduction on daily rate)
Drawing is where you start.
The primary way to explore your environment and your emotional response to it can be through drawing. Children draw before they write. Somewhere along the way we complicate matters, lose the pleasure of drawing, and its intuitive possibilities.
This course is designed to encourage you to find the pleasure in something that was once a natural response, to be inquisitive and give you confidence in your abilities. Drawing is both straightforward and complicated. Through drawing you can contemplate all the attributes of painting except the hue. It can be an end in itself, or a firm step towards other visual arts.
Starting in January with an introductory week this series of classes is designed to make you look at, and reconsider the many different aspects of a creative process. You will go from looking to seeing and understanding and, finally, towards interpreting your world.
There will be aspects of this course that feel firmly figurative; this is just a starting place. If you feel a more abstract or expressive approach would be a direction you wish to take this would be warmly encouraged.
Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate, or withdraw something from something else.
All students will discover their own area of interest and a visual language that works for them. The mix of ideas and interests within a group, combined with discussion and research makes for a creatively fertile environment.
There are five weeks of classes, over five months with one concentrated week in the studio, or at another venue, per month. There will be an element of preparation and research between the months. The more work put into the non-class time will result in a greater appreciation of the subject.
Pricing is designed to encourage students to commit to themselves and take on a demanding course.
Individual classes – £90/day.
Complete course (25days) – £1,800 (20% reduction on daily rate)
All abilities are welcomed.
If you would like more information about the course or, about accommodation, please contact me, Kate Measham.
I would like to have an exhibition of the work produced over the months. At the moment we are looking at some time in June or July.
Tate definition of Drawing
Drawing is essentially a technique in which images are depicted on a surface by making lines, though drawings can also contain tonal areas, washes and other non-linear marks
Below are some photos from last week’s three day course, ‘Life Drawing, Papier Mache to Painting’.
On Monday our model adopted two different poses and the students drew relentlessly, all day. It was appreciated that there is a difference between a working, note taking drawing, and drawing for the sake of it…(I love life drawing just for the sake of it…but it is different).
Tuesday started with making quick maquettes of each pose followed by WONDERFUL creations from one pose. Wednesday involved working from the pieces made on Tuesday.
I loved the work the students made from this process.
Sewing and knitting have ‘stitch and bitch’… this is the drawing version, without the niceness.
It has become a regular fixture on alternate Thursdays. Pick morning or afternoon sessions. There is a limited amount of space so there will be a max of 7 per class.
Drawing is a skill; it requires practise, guidance and encouragement, adventure and more practise. In this class you will be taught about materials, different techniques and, very importantly, you will learn how to look.
for more information of to book a place on this course contact me, Kate Measham. contact
This is a class that is appropriate for all abilities.
You may not have picked up a pencil for a long time, or you might attend a regular, weekly class. The idea of this class, and others that will follow, is to extend yourself, try something new, revisit something old and to remind yourself that drawing is exciting.
There is nothing like a wet Sunday in August to remind you that the seasons are changing, ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ will be available in shops near you before too long, and the Autumn Term is upon us.
Below is a list of the classes currently available. Click on titles for more information. If you want to contact me please send me an email Kate Measham
I hope to squeeze in a couple more classes at some point so keep an eye out for updates.
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Travel on A303 towards ANDOVER approach via BRANSBURY turn off – over bridge and Riverside Cottage is straight ahead – drive in to park
Riverside Cottage artist in residence Bernard Hodder has been inspired by life on the River Dever. Kate Measham has traveled the River Test painting its changing paths and teaches at Riverside.
Disabled access
Driveway parking
Opening times
10am-5pm; closed 18th, 19th & 24th
Address
Riverside Cottage BRANSBURY Nr Barton Stacey, SO21 3QJ
