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Expressive drawing L1
£145.00
Weekend course 2-days
Learn creative techniques and approaches in how to edit, re-imagine, and creatively re-interpret your subject. Explore ways of embracing an expressive semi-abstract style and create highly personal expressions of the still life arrangements. Move away from realism, take control of the creative process, and create drawings that freely express a unique artistic vision.
Projects use a variety of different drawing materials and techniques to enable students to radically transform the still life arrangements into contemporary-styled self-expressive drawings.
Suitable for: Adults, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
Course Overview
Working from still life arrangements, students will put personal creativity centre stage gaining confidence with techniques to re-imagine and re-interpret the still life. Observing reality but allowing drawing styles to evolve into creative semi-abstract artworks, the creative possibilities for self-expression are endless. Techniques learnt on this course can be applied to all kinds of subject matter.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: Sat 10-4pm + Sun 10-4.30pm
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Returners, 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.
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
Visualising Creative ideas
Session 1
Starting with some drawing games to help release students from the confines of realistic looking drawings, students will work with soft chalk and oil pastels to develop fast-paced approach to visualising ideas that will help free up their creativity and self-expressive vision.
Extracting the Art Elements
Session 2
Separating out the Art Elements (line, tone, colour, shape, texture, pattern) from within the still life objects helps students discover unique mark-making that creates drawings with a rich interesting surface texture. Students also learn how to pull the Art Elements together to create compositions full of a unique personal vision.
Embracing flow + change
Session 3
Students will learn a technique using oil pastels that enables them to draw with flexibility and intuition while adding layers of interest and depth to their drawings. Students will learn a second soft pastel and collage technique that will give them ultimate creative flexibility and control of their drawing.
Uncovering self-expression
Session 4
Students will learn more about composition to create dynamic drawings that more closely express their own style and artistic voice. The drawings completed this session represent the beginnings of a personal creative journey to express their own true vision.
By the end of the course…
Students will have developed the skills and creative confidence to create drawings in a style that is true to their own inner artist’s voice – no longer a slave to realism and naturalism.
Student Quotes
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Course Overview
Working from still life arrangements, students will put personal creativity centre stage gaining confidence with techniques to re-imagine and re-interpret the still life. Observing reality but allowing drawing styles to evolve into creative semi-abstract artworks, the creative possibilities for self-expression are endless. Techniques learnt on this course can be applied to all kinds of subject matter.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: Sat 10-4pm + Sun 10-4.30pm
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Returners, 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.
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
Visualising Creative ideas
Session 1
Starting with some drawing games to help release students from the confines of realistic looking drawings, students will work with soft chalk and oil pastels to develop fast-paced approach to visualising ideas that will help free up their creativity and self-expressive vision.
Extracting the Art Elements
Session 2
Separating out the Art Elements (line, tone, colour, shape, texture, pattern) from within the still life objects helps students discover unique mark-making that creates drawings with a rich interesting surface texture. Students also learn how to pull the Art Elements together to create compositions full of a unique personal vision.
Embracing flow + change
Session 3
Students will learn a technique using oil pastels that enables them to draw with flexibility and intuition while adding layers of interest and depth to their drawings. Students will learn a second soft pastel and collage technique that will give them ultimate creative flexibility and control of their drawing.
Uncovering self-expression
Session 4
Students will learn more about composition to create dynamic drawings that more closely express their own style and artistic voice. The drawings completed this session represent the beginnings of a personal creative journey to express their own true vision.
By the end of the course…
Students will have developed the skills and creative confidence to create drawings in a style that is true to their own inner artist’s voice – no longer a slave to realism and naturalism.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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