Duration:

08 November - 06 December 2025 / 5 Saturdays

Saturday 10am-4pm

Tutor(s): Ian Rowlands, Kate Hopkins, Sandra Smith

This course suits a cross-section of experiences from complete beginners, to those who are more experienced, but would like to re-engage with essential skills in drawing.

Course Description

This course gives students the opportunity to explore core drawing skills. We will use drawing as a means of articulating form and as a tool for thinking, to encourage students to explore and nurture ideas through drawing and as inspiration for their own art practice. Using the idea of perception as the starting point for visual enquiry, we will be working almost entirely from observation, though we will increasingly address individual ideas and compositions as the course progresses. The five sessions will explore light and tone, space and line, measurement, proportion and drawing systems, materials and surface, and composition. Students will draw from old master paintings in one session. They will experiment with a variety of techniques and materials including pencil, ink, white chalk, willow and compressed charcoal. 

 

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