What did the students learn?The Drawing techniques evening course allows students the opportunity to explore and learn ways of developing their drawing skills in a fine art approach to making art. The course questions creativity and why we often struggle to draw what we see in front of us – why is the simple […]
Essential Drawing Foundations: June-July 2016 Discover what the students got up to during this course. The exercises, the experimentation, the finished drawings. This course enabled students to learn how to improve their creativity and drawing skills. Each week teaches students practical techniques to help them draw more expressively, improve inventiveness, and interpretation by developing a […]
Course Photo Diary: April-May 2016 Discover what the students got up to during this course. The exercises, the experimentation, the finished drawings. Each session explored one of the Art Elements of Line, Colour, Tone + Form, Texture, Shape + Pattern, and finally finishing off looking at Composition. See the photo albums below to get a […]
Course Photo Diary: 23-24 April 2016 Discover what the students got up to during this course. The exercises, the experimentation, the finished drawings and paintings. I thoroughly enjoyed supporting a group of 10 beginners to take their first steps into the world of drawing and painting. I filled up the 2 days with as much […]
What a busy studio it has been this weekend on the Experimental Drawing course. We drew on easels, the floor and walls. We did so many drawing experiments over the 2 days we could barely move for drawings! The studio came to life with so much creativity, experimentation with different media, and the buzz of […]
The studio was full, with students searching for innovative ways to re-interpret the still life arrangement in the centre of the studio. It was amazing to see how different everyone’s drawing looked even though we were all seeing the same objects. Have a look at the gallery and you’ll see just how individual and personal […]
An amazing weekend of creativity and fun. New ideas and techniques, experimentation and observational drawing using new media and old. Most students came along on this Creative Sketchbooks course with a brand new sketchbook full of pristine white pages not quite knowing what was in store for them over the 2 days. However, one student […]
The Cityscapes + aperture 2-day weekend course will focus on drawing in and around the grade 2 listed building that is our home – Hope Mill. Full of Victorian old world charm it provides inspiring views of buildings, new and old, from the many windows. This will be your inspiration for 2 days of collage […]
If you’ve invested in quality pencils please take care of them if you want them to perform their best when drawing and sketching. Here are my top tips for drawing and sketching with pencil, and how to care for them. Never drop your pencils. The graphite in the pencils can be soft and shatters […]
The Creative Sketchbooks 2-day course will show you how to use and develop your creative ideas. This taster workshop (23.11.2014) offered a little glimpse of what students would learn on the full 2-day course. What did the students think? “Really good, working with different textures – new ways to be creative.” “Simple techniques that can […]
Why keep a Sketchbook? This is a very good question. At the moment I keep 3 different sketchbooks – each for a different reason. Way back at art school I was always told to keep a sketchbook and you will find virtually all art teachers will tell you the same. So there must be a […]
Be warned – drawing, particularly life drawing, can catch you by surprise and never let you go. It can turn your life upside down and fill every spare moment if you let it. That’s brilliant – and the rewards are great because the challenge is so great! I caught the bug at art school and […]
