Life drawing
Choose between tutor-led courses and a weekly peer-led drawing group
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Life Drawing Foundations
£218.00Thursday morning 6-session course
– includes model fees + all materialsLife Drawing Foundations
This fully tutor-led course teaches beginners and more experienced drawers innovative and creative life drawing techniques that will form the foundations to all future life, figure and portrait drawing.Experienced and supportive teaching guides students step-by-step through practical drawing exercises to master core life drawing techniques. Students will be introduced to ideas and concepts around perception and creativity, and learn an approach to drawing the figure that will enable them to draw with a new clarity of vision, improve accuracy, and self-expression.
Every session puts forward solutions to the struggles confronted by everyone who draws – be surprised and persuaded into new understandings of what it means to draw the human figure within dynamic 3-dimensional space.
The course interprets key ideas developed by internationally renowned artist and author Heather Spears in her book ‘The Creative Eye’ .
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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Begin Life Drawing
£36.00Wednesday afternoon single-class
– min purchase: flexible mix of 4-class dates
– includes model fees + most materialsBegin Life Drawing
The absolute-beginners guide to life drawing. Perfect for those new to art and those just new to life drawing. This flexible mixed ability life drawing class is perfect for helping beginners take their first steps in drawing the figure as well as everyone starting to draw the human form for the first time.The tutor-led classes offer support and guidance every step of the way. Students will expand their life drawing knowledge and skills topic-by-topic to become creatively confident life drawers.
Attend the Begin Life Drawing classes for general tutored life drawing with a focus on a new topic each session. Classes can become a regular feature of students’ ongoing creative calendar.
Flexible mix + match booking
- Select any 4-class dates from the Begin Life Drawing classes and the Weekly Art Class.
- Plan your own timetable around your commitments and holidays – attend regularly or with breaks.
- Minimum purchase of 4-class dates.
Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, returners
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Life drawing Ancoats
£14.00Monday evening peer-led group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Life, figure and portrait drawing and painting at AWOL studios, Hope Mill. The weekly Life Drawing Ancoats (LDA) group is a small, quiet and focused life group based in Ancoats. Drawers from across Greater Manchester and the North West are encouraged to attend. LDA prides itself in being welcoming, friendly and inclusive of everyone with an interest in life drawing.
Members will enjoy peer-support from a friendly group of artists.Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners to experienced artists
Monday evening: 6.30 – 8.30pm
Venue: Hope Mill, Pollard Street, Ancoats
