Explore the art of drawing in its purest form. Expand your drawing, gesture and mark-making skills and re-energize 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.

LESSON PLAN:

The workshop begins with a variety of experimental exercises to help free the imagination and encourages mark-making that embraces a new playful and expressive attitude towards drawing and painting. Then we move on to creating a large size drawing. Students will use a range of traditional materials and new techniques to make drawings that revel in their sheer joy of being expressive.

Registration and Fees

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• Members: $120.00; after 7/11/2024: $125.00

• Non-Members: $135.00; after 7/11/2024: $140.00

Advanced Registration Required.

Registration and Code of Conduct Policy

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:

Essentials

• Pencil: 4B, 6B, 8B or 9B

• Plastic eraser

• Kneadable ‘putty’ rubber

• Drawing paper by Daler-Rowney or similar– A combination of sizes 

• Mixed Media Pad 25 Sheets (16 x 24)
  250gsm

  1. Mixed Media Pad 30 sheets (24 x 34)
     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

This class requires: Easels, board and clips large enough to accommodate paper size