Course Structure
Gain a new appreciation of creativity and the process of looking + seeing (perception). Students will learn practical tips and techniques to help avoid common drawing mistakes while understanding why we make them in the first place. Students will learn the foundations to a new way of drawing that can foster increased creativity, drawing accuracy, and greater artistic-confidence. Students will draw a variety of still-life arrangements designed to inspire and support my teaching.
Expressive drawing
Session 1
Students will improve their drawing by learning how to increase the variety of expressive marks. Increasing the quality and kinds of marks, textures and smudges students use in their drawings is crucial in creating exciting and visually stunning drawings.
Return to innocence
Session 2
Students will learn to draw with inventiveness, purity and artistic honesty. Picasso stated that, ‘It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.’ Students are offered the experience of ‘returning to innocence’ in order to discover ways of producing fresh, personal and unique drawings.
The sculptural quality of drawing
Session 3
Students will learn how to improve their drawing by observing shape and proportion more accurately and draw shapes with volume and weight. The sculptor chisels stone or carves clay to create 3D form. Students will learn to draw like a sculptor using charcoal to create convincing 3D shapes with form, volume and structure.
The nature of line
Session 4
Learning about line helps students draw more freely and intuitively giving their drawings more energy and liveliness. It is only when we truly know something that we can harness its full potential. This session helps to unlock the full expressive ability of line.
Beyond the named
Session 5
Closely observing detail and drawing what we ‘see’, not what we think we know is a vital skill to draw well. Creativity is increasingly stifled the more artists name, label, and categorise things. Students will learn ways to help them through this barrier to seeing more accurately.
Paying attention
Session 6
Students will learn to leave their ‘critical self’ behind and harness their creativity and inventiveness to create inspiring drawings. Creativity requires both intensive concentration and playfulness. Resolving this contradiction into one creative experience is how artists access the ‘creative zone’ where personal creativity can flourish.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home having taken their drawing beyond the predictable and drawn free from inhibition and clichés. Feel rejuvenated and energised to continue drawing at home.
Essential Drawing Foundations
£218.00
Thursday evening course 6-sessions
Essential Drawing Foundations
This fully tutor-led course teaches beginners and more experienced drawers innovative and creative drawing techniques that form the foundations to all future drawing and painting.
Experienced and supportive teaching guides students step-by-step through practical drawing exercises to master core drawing techniques. Students will be introduced to ideas and concepts around perception and creativity, and learn an approach to drawing 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 objects 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, intermediate, experienced
Course Overview
Gain a new appreciation of creativity and the process of looking + seeing (perception). Students will learn practical tips and techniques to help avoid common drawing mistakes and establish strong foundations to a new way of drawing that can foster increased creativity, drawing accuracy, and greater artistic-confidence. Students will draw a variety of still-life arrangements designed to inspire and support my teaching.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thurs x 6
Times: 6.30 – 9pm (sessions 1-5) + 6.30-9.30pm (session 6)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Experienced
Attendance: Every session builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend regularly to avoid gaps in knowledge, although I will do my best to fill in the gaps if students do miss a session.
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Student Review
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Course Structure
Gain a new appreciation of creativity and the process of looking + seeing (perception). Students will learn practical tips and techniques to help avoid common drawing mistakes while understanding why we make them in the first place. Students will learn the foundations to a new way of drawing that can foster increased creativity, drawing accuracy, and greater artistic-confidence. Students will draw a variety of still-life arrangements designed to inspire and support my teaching.
Expressive drawing
Session 1
Students will improve their drawing by learning how to increase the variety of expressive marks. Increasing the quality and kinds of marks, textures and smudges students use in their drawings is crucial in creating exciting and visually stunning drawings.
Return to innocence
Session 2
Students will learn to draw with inventiveness, purity and artistic honesty. Picasso stated that, ‘It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.’ Students are offered the experience of ‘returning to innocence’ in order to discover ways of producing fresh, personal and unique drawings.
The sculptural quality of drawing
Session 3
Students will learn how to improve their drawing by observing shape and proportion more accurately and draw shapes with volume and weight. The sculptor chisels stone or carves clay to create 3D form. Students will learn to draw like a sculptor using charcoal to create convincing 3D shapes with form, volume and structure.
The nature of line
Session 4
Learning about line helps students draw more freely and intuitively giving their drawings more energy and liveliness. It is only when we truly know something that we can harness its full potential. This session helps to unlock the full expressive ability of line.
Beyond the named
Session 5
Closely observing detail and drawing what we ‘see’, not what we think we know is a vital skill to draw well. Creativity is increasingly stifled the more artists name, label, and categorise things. Students will learn ways to help them through this barrier to seeing more accurately.
Paying attention
Session 6
Students will learn to leave their ‘critical self’ behind and harness their creativity and inventiveness to create inspiring drawings. Creativity requires both intensive concentration and playfulness. Resolving this contradiction into one creative experience is how artists access the ‘creative zone’ where personal creativity can flourish.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home having taken their drawing beyond the predictable and drawn free from inhibition and clichés. Feel rejuvenated and energised to continue drawing at home.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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Course Overview
Gain a new appreciation of creativity and the process of looking + seeing (perception). Students will learn practical tips and techniques to help avoid common drawing mistakes and establish strong foundations to a new way of drawing that can foster increased creativity, drawing accuracy, and greater artistic-confidence. Students will draw a variety of still-life arrangements designed to inspire and support my teaching.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thurs x 6
Times: 6.30 – 9pm (sessions 1-5) + 6.30-9.30pm (session 6)
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Experienced
Attendance: Every session builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend regularly to avoid gaps in knowledge, although I will do my best to fill in the gaps if students do miss a session.
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
Essential items to bring
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
Student Review
More reviews >
Course Structure
Gain a new appreciation of creativity and the process of looking + seeing (perception). Students will learn practical tips and techniques to help avoid common drawing mistakes while understanding why we make them in the first place. Students will learn the foundations to a new way of drawing that can foster increased creativity, drawing accuracy, and greater artistic-confidence. Students will draw a variety of still-life arrangements designed to inspire and support my teaching.
Expressive drawing
Session 1
Students will improve their drawing by learning how to increase the variety of expressive marks. Increasing the quality and kinds of marks, textures and smudges students use in their drawings is crucial in creating exciting and visually stunning drawings.
Return to innocence
Session 2
Students will learn to draw with inventiveness, purity and artistic honesty. Picasso stated that, ‘It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.’ Students are offered the experience of ‘returning to innocence’ in order to discover ways of producing fresh, personal and unique drawings.
The sculptural quality of drawing
Session 3
Students will learn how to improve their drawing by observing shape and proportion more accurately and draw shapes with volume and weight. The sculptor chisels stone or carves clay to create 3D form. Students will learn to draw like a sculptor using charcoal to create convincing 3D shapes with form, volume and structure.
The nature of line
Session 4
Learning about line helps students draw more freely and intuitively giving their drawings more energy and liveliness. It is only when we truly know something that we can harness its full potential. This session helps to unlock the full expressive ability of line.
Beyond the named
Session 5
Closely observing detail and drawing what we ‘see’, not what we think we know is a vital skill to draw well. Creativity is increasingly stifled the more artists name, label, and categorise things. Students will learn ways to help them through this barrier to seeing more accurately.
Paying attention
Session 6
Students will learn to leave their ‘critical self’ behind and harness their creativity and inventiveness to create inspiring drawings. Creativity requires both intensive concentration and playfulness. Resolving this contradiction into one creative experience is how artists access the ‘creative zone’ where personal creativity can flourish.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home having taken their drawing beyond the predictable and drawn free from inhibition and clichés. Feel rejuvenated and energised to continue drawing at home.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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