11.30am-5pm | 18+ yrs
Take your drawing skills to another level with this intensive workshop covering observational drawing skills and measuring techniques, culminating in a longer developed drawing or painting.
What will the course cover, and how will it be taught?
This is an opportunity for people of all abilities to develop life drawing skills in an intensive day workshop.
The day will be structured to include a series of enjoyable exercises that cover a variety of mark making and observational skills, ending in a long pose in the afternoon. Emphasis will be put on challenging your drawing practice and improving measuring for accuracy withing life drawing. The longer pose will give you the opportunity to push your drawings to another level, and even into painting.
A life model will be present. Through a combination of practical work, tutor demonstration and also group discussion, you will:
- Practice and develop measuring techniques within life drawing.
- Develop the representation of tone and structure in life drawing.
- Complete a more developed life drawing.
- Appreciate life drawings and paintings by some other artists
What do I need to bring with me?
Drawing boards and easels will be provided.
Please bring:
- paper (A 3 or A2 sketch book)
- Willow charcoal
- Putty rubber
- Masking tape or clips to attach your paper to a board
- Any other drawing or painting art materials and surfaces that you wish to
NB – if purchasing art materials at Youdells access a 10% discount by saying that you are attending an Art Class at the Brewery.
When using art materials your clothes could potentially get dirty so you may wish to bring an apron and/or dress for mess.
Are there any additional costs?
No
Important Information
This workshop will be held in Studio 3.
About the tutor
Catherine MacDiarmid brings over 30 years of teaching experience to her role, combining extensive classroom practice with the insight of a dedicated, practising artist. She has exhibited widely, including the BP Portrait Award (2001/02), the New Light Art (2021/22 and 2023/24), and regularly at the Mall Galleries. Her work has received numerous accolades, most recently the Watercolour Materials Award at the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2023 and the People and Faces Award 2025 at the Lake Artists Society. She is an elected member of the Lakes Artists Society and the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Catherine has also appeared on Portrait Artist of the Year (2014 and 2018), reaching the semi-finals in 2019.Alongside private portrait commissions, her work is collected internationally, and she is based in her home studio in Kendal.
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