Learn To Draw Big And Bold | 19 Oct | 11am-5pm | £55 | 16+ | Tutor Cat MacDiarmid | Studio 3
Learn to draw big and bold, with confidence and expression in this enjoyable one-day workshop. Great for beginners and those wishing to inject some life into their drawing.
What will the class cover and how will it be taught?
Inject some confidence into your drawing during this one-day workshop designed to expand your drawing vocabulary and encourage expression. You will be guided through some different drawing activities covering gestural mark-making, drawing with energy, and using different charcoals, pastels and ink. Still life objects will be used as source material, as well as working from your imagination, to create a large scale drawing full of life, in either one of the materials or a mixed media piece. Let yourself go and challenge the possibilities of what a drawing can be.
The workshop will be taught through a series of practical tasks, tutor demonstrations, looking at work by other artists and group discussions.
Who is it suitable for?
Anyone who fancies giving drawing a go.
What do I need to bring?
*=essential
- *A2/A1 white cartridge paper (at least 3 pieces)
- *Chunky Willow charcoal
- *Putty rubbers
- *Indian or Quink Ink
- *Fixative or cheap hairspray to fix charcoal drawings
- Pastels
- Compressed charcoal
Are there any additional costs?
No.
About the tutor
Catherine MacDiarmid has 29 years’ experience teaching a range of art classes and applying her knowledge as practicing artist to her role as a Tutor. She exhibits widely, including exhibiting in the BP Portrait in 2001/2, New Light Art Tour 2021/22 and 2023/24 (of outstanding Northern based Artists) and regularly at the Mall Galleries. Catherine has won many awards for her art, most recently being the Watercolour Materials Award in the Jacksons Painting Prize 2023. She is an elected member of The Lakes Artists Society, the Contemporary British Portrait Painters and appeared in Sky Portrait Artists of the Year 2014, 2018 reaching the semi-finals in 2019. As well as completing private portrait commissions her work is collected internationally and she works from her home-studio in Kendal.
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