Days: Thursday morning x 6 sessions
Times: 10-12.30
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adults, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Attendance: Each exercise builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend every session 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.
Life Drawing Foundations
£218.00
Thursday morning 6-session course
– includes model fees + all materials
Life 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
Course Overview
Students just beginning life drawing will benefit from learning a host of techniques to help them draw more accurately and avoid many common drawing errors.
For more experienced drawers, the course will offer an opportunity to reconnect with new ways of thinking about creativity, perception, and what it means to create life drawings that capture the essential life-force and movement of the human form.
This is an expressive and creative life drawing course – not a traditional ‘academic-realist’ course.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thursday morning x 6 sessions
Times: 10-12.30
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adults, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Attendance: Each exercise builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend every session 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.
All materials included
We will be drawing with charcoal on newsprint paper
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
The Life Drawing Foundations course teaches essential foundational life drawing and perception skills inspired by the approach written about by Heather Spears in her book The Creative Eye (published 2011). The fully guided course covers topics such as;
Understanding the dynamics of the life model in space
Seeing the figure as a whole
Movement, flow and connection
Avoiding common perceptive errors
Is this course for me?
This course is suitable for students of all abilities, from beginners to more experienced drawers. Everyone will be encouraged to stretch themselves and develop their artistic abilities and attitudes towards drawing and creativity, while being offered lots of creative support, 1:1 guidance and group critiques within a friendly, supportive and welcoming studio environment.
The course is inspired by the book The Creative Eye, by Heather Spears.
Read my review> of The Creative Eye book and check it out on Amazon>>
By the end of the course
Students will have created dozens of drawings each, learning to observe and draw the life model ever more keenly and accurately capturing the flow and movement of the human form. Students will have created drawings of sensitivity and understanding and will leave with a toolbox of techniques, deeper understanding of the creative drawing process and inspiration to propel their practice of life drawing forward.
Student Quotes
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Course Overview
Students just beginning life drawing will benefit from learning a host of techniques to help them draw more accurately and avoid many common drawing errors.
For more experienced drawers, the course will offer an opportunity to reconnect with new ways of thinking about creativity, perception, and what it means to create life drawings that capture the essential life-force and movement of the human form.
This is an expressive and creative life drawing course – not a traditional ‘academic-realist’ course.
All images are students work completed on the course
Days: Thursday morning x 6 sessions
Times: 10-12.30
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adults, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Returners
Attendance: Each exercise builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend every session 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.
All materials included
We will be drawing with charcoal on newsprint paper
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
The Life Drawing Foundations course teaches essential foundational life drawing and perception skills inspired by the approach written about by Heather Spears in her book The Creative Eye (published 2011). The fully guided course covers topics such as;
Understanding the dynamics of the life model in space
Seeing the figure as a whole
Movement, flow and connection
Avoiding common perceptive errors
Is this course for me?
This course is suitable for students of all abilities, from beginners to more experienced drawers. Everyone will be encouraged to stretch themselves and develop their artistic abilities and attitudes towards drawing and creativity, while being offered lots of creative support, 1:1 guidance and group critiques within a friendly, supportive and welcoming studio environment.
The course is inspired by the book The Creative Eye, by Heather Spears.
Read my review> of The Creative Eye book and check it out on Amazon>>
By the end of the course
Students will have created dozens of drawings each, learning to observe and draw the life model ever more keenly and accurately capturing the flow and movement of the human form. Students will have created drawings of sensitivity and understanding and will leave with a toolbox of techniques, deeper understanding of the creative drawing process and inspiration to propel their practice of life drawing forward.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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