Drawing Skills

with Julia Hawkins

‘The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never  graduate from drawing’ - John Sloan 

The Power Of Drawing

Learn about and improve your knowledge of perspective, form, volume, tone and composition – all essential skills for today’s artist.

Materials to have with you for most lessons: Daler Rowney Fine Grain-Heavyweight A3 paper pad, variety of graphite pencils from hard to soft, rubber (not putty), Stanley knife, masking tape, A2 plastic folder to carry drawings.

Algernon Newton Drawing of a cottage and trees on the edge of the moors

Autumn 2023 Drawing Programme: “Discovering the Beginning of Everything”

Wednesdays 12:45-3:15pm

‘Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything, and not having it, one has nothing’ Giorgio Vasari

13th SeptDrawing Landscape. Both groups (10 sheets of A3 coloured sugar or coloured pastel paper, B6 graphite pencils, chalk pencils – brown and white, stanley knife, rubber, light folding stool)

 20th SeptDrawing Landscape cont. Architectural drawing (A4 hard back sketch book or clipboard and drawing paper, graphite pencils 3B – 9B, stanley knife, rubber, light folding stool)

 27th SeptDrawing Nature. House plant. (Good quality A3 drawing paper, graphite pencils)

 4th OctDrawing Nature. Drawing live animals (subject to availability)

 11th OctSet Your Interest Alight. Sketching people (Clipboard, plenty of A4 printing paper, medium size watercolour brush, sepia or black watercolour, jar for water; felt pens any colour, willow charcoal)

 18th Oct – Half Term

 

25th OctDrawing humans: eyes, nose, lips. Both groups (good quality A3 drawing paper, range of graphite pencils)

 1st NovDrawing humans: eyes, nose, lips cont.

 8th NovBeginners group: Language of lines. Exercises (points, direction lines, angles, measuring skills)

Improvers: Head and torso (A2 paper)

 15th NovBeginners: Correcting your drawing (points in space, tone)

Improvers: Head and torso cont.

 22nd NovBeginners: Drawing three-dimensional objects. Combination of geometric shapes. (A2 paper, graphite pencils)

Improvers: Head and torso cont.

29th NovMonotypes inspired by Degas. Lesson coincides with the RA exhibition: Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec.

Both groups (smooth tile or glass appr A4 size, raw umber oil paint, small and medium hog oil painting brushes, zest, rags, apron, A4 printing paper)

 6th DecMonotypes inspired by Degas cont. (bring works you printed during the last session, soft pastel, apron)