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Adult Drawing: Learn to see better in 10 lessons
When you learn to draw, you learn to see the world. It’s like traveling to a new destination without leaving your surroundings. Copying is not a bad word – that’s what artists do all the time; just add personality.
In 10 weeks of 2-hour lessons, we cover:
- Learn to draw contours as you see them. Learn to “see” without feeling restrained.
- Mark-making: using different tools or tools differently to make marks on the paper.
- Exploring different styles.
- Shading: drawing without contours.
- Composition: what to leave in and what to include in the picture; Positive and Negative space.
- Some perspective and how to create space.
- Appropriate the subject you are drawing from and transform it to make it your own
- How to stay inspired.
The aim of the class is to send you exploring on your own, without fear.
Here are some links to how I think about art and teaching art:
- Germaine Greer “I’m about to tell you what art is” in the Guardian.
- Austin Kleon “How to Steal Like an Artist“, the book.
- and of course, the classics: “How to Draw on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edward and inspiration from Mona Brooks and her Monart method of drawing.
See some of my drawings:
- Birds and other pencil drawings
- Figure drawings
- Mixed Media Drawings
- My more recent, contemporary, work includes drawings: the Laboratory of ‘Pataphysics.
