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Home / 1-day Workshops / Experimental drawing

Experimental drawing

£73.00

Saturday workshop 1-day

Explore the art of drawing in its purest form. Expand your drawing, gesture and mark-making skills and re-energise your drawing and painting. Gesture and mark-making are the building blocks to transforming ordinary-well observed drawing into dynamic and engaging self-expressive works of art.

Essential skills to both abstract and realistic drawing styles, students will learn by experimentation and tutor-guidance  to trust their innate imagination, intuition, and sense of play to nurture their inner creativity and self-expression.

Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate

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Workshop Structure

A variety of experimental exercises will help students free their imagination and develop mark-making that express a new playful and expressive attitude towards drawing and painting. Students will use a range of traditional materials and new techniques to make drawings that revel in their sheer joy of being expressive.

The purity of mark-making

Discover the connection between the marks you make and self-expression.  Making drawings using a variety of materials gives students the opportunity to explore and experiment with familiar and unusual materials and techniques.  

Feeding the imagination

Making expressive abstract drawings requires a wealth of inspiration to ensure a continual replenishment of ideas so drawings continue to evolve, change, and develop. Students learn techniques that enables them to find new mark-making ideas from the world around them.

Simplifying ideas

Distilling mark-making ideas to their essence is central to creating strong visually clear images. Less is often more, and students learn techniques that enable them to distil ideas to their central concept to create increasingly dynamic drawings.

Beyond the boundaries

Embracing spontaneity and freedom of expression requires setting boundaries. Students will work on a variety of mini projects with limitations, that will set their imaginations free.

By the end of the course…

Students will leave inspired and excited about the possibilities of pure mark-making and self-expression, understanding it can be applied to all styles of drawing from realistic to abstract.

Book now...

Help + Guidance

  • HEALTH-sure info >
    1.  CLICK HERE> Covid and HEALTH-sure procedures that ensures a safe low risk studio environment
    2. CLICK HERE>  Free Course Transfers in the event a student is unable to attend due to Covid
  • Course info

    Days: Saturday
    Times: 10-4pm
    Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring

    Suitable for: Adults
    Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate

    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.

  • Materials to bring

    Essential items to bring

    • Pencil: 4B, 6B, 8B or 9B
    • Plastic eraser
    • Kneadable ‘putty’ rubber
    • Drawing paper – choose either;
      • Cass Art: A2 size
        Mixed Media Pad 25 Sheets
        250gsm
      • Daler-Rowney: A2 size
        Mixed Media Pad 30 sheets
        250gsm

    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

  • What level course is right for me?

    To help you answer the question,

    “What level course is right for me?”

    To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.

    Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.

    Level 0: Absolute-beginner 
    For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.

    Level 1: Beginner
    For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.

    Level 2: Improver
    For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.

    Level 3: Intermediate
    For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.

    Level 4: Experienced
    For those students with creative experience who feel confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell. 

  • What course should I do next?

    To help you answer the question,

    “What course should I do next?”

    There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.

    1. Treat my courses as a Mix + Match Patchwork
      All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
      Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
    2. Choose one of the linked courses at the bottom of this page
      These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.

    Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.

Student Quotes

“Lots of new techniques & materials.  Ideas for different ways of making marks, encouragement to be expressive, inspiration to be creative with techniques, ideas and materials.” Nicola D

 

“Very enjoyable, non-intimidating teaching style, accommodation for individual creativity with tips and ideas offered at the right level.” Denise H
“Different mark making techniques, useful in all aspects of my art. Useful skills to start uni[versity] with. Felt like a lot was fitted into a short space of time. Learnt more than I thought I would.” Daisy M

More reviews >

Lets book it now ...

 

 

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Workshop Structure

A variety of experimental exercises will help students free their imagination and develop mark-making that express a new playful and expressive attitude towards drawing and painting. Students will use a range of traditional materials and new techniques to make drawings that revel in their sheer joy of being expressive.

The purity of mark-making

Discover the connection between the marks you make and self-expression.  Making drawings using a variety of materials gives students the opportunity to explore and experiment with familiar and unusual materials and techniques.  

Feeding the imagination

Making expressive abstract drawings requires a wealth of inspiration to ensure a continual replenishment of ideas so drawings continue to evolve, change, and develop. Students learn techniques that enables them to find new mark-making ideas from the world around them.

Simplifying ideas

Distilling mark-making ideas to their essence is central to creating strong visually clear images. Less is often more, and students learn techniques that enable them to distil ideas to their central concept to create increasingly dynamic drawings.

Beyond the boundaries

Embracing spontaneity and freedom of expression requires setting boundaries. Students will work on a variety of mini projects with limitations, that will set their imaginations free.

By the end of the course…

Students will leave inspired and excited about the possibilities of pure mark-making and self-expression, understanding it can be applied to all styles of drawing from realistic to abstract.

Book now...

Help + Guidance

  • HEALTH-sure info >
    1.  CLICK HERE> Covid and HEALTH-sure procedures that ensures a safe low risk studio environment
    2. CLICK HERE>  Free Course Transfers in the event a student is unable to attend due to Covid
  • Course info

    Days: Saturday
    Times: 10-4pm
    Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring

    Suitable for: Adults
    Teaching Level: Absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, intermediate

    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.

  • Materials to bring

    Essential items to bring

    • Pencil: 4B, 6B, 8B or 9B
    • Plastic eraser
    • Kneadable ‘putty’ rubber
    • Drawing paper – choose either;
      • Cass Art: A2 size
        Mixed Media Pad 25 Sheets
        250gsm
      • Daler-Rowney: A2 size
        Mixed Media Pad 30 sheets
        250gsm

    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

  • What level course is right for me?

    To help you answer the question,

    “What level course is right for me?”

    To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.

    Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.

    Level 0: Absolute-beginner 
    For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.

    Level 1: Beginner
    For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.

    Level 2: Improver
    For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.

    Level 3: Intermediate
    For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.

    Level 4: Experienced
    For those students with creative experience who feel confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell. 

  • What course should I do next?

    To help you answer the question,

    “What course should I do next?”

    There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.

    1. Treat my courses as a Mix + Match Patchwork
      All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
      Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
    2. Choose one of the linked courses at the bottom of this page
      These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.

    Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.

Student Quotes

“Lots of new techniques & materials.  Ideas for different ways of making marks, encouragement to be expressive, inspiration to be creative with techniques, ideas and materials.” Nicola D

 

“Very enjoyable, non-intimidating teaching style, accommodation for individual creativity with tips and ideas offered at the right level.” Denise H
“Different mark making techniques, useful in all aspects of my art. Useful skills to start uni[versity] with. Felt like a lot was fitted into a short space of time. Learnt more than I thought I would.” Daisy M

More reviews >

Lets book it now ...

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