Extended Life Drawing | Wed 30 April-9 July | 10.30am-1pm | £195 | 16+yrs | Tutor Catherine MacDiarmid | Studio 3
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Develop longer-life drawing compositions with thematic and skill-extension-based poses. You will be guided through a different life-drawing idea each week. These are designed specifically to extend your practice and confidence with life drawing, guided by our expert tutor.
What will the course cover and how will it be taught?
Each session will focus on a different idea within life drawing, such as recreating a famous pose, exploring movement or foreshortening, or simply developing tone and structure. The sessions will be structured with a series of warm-up drawings and a long drawing. Individual guidance will be given, and personal needs nurtured through one-to-one with the tutor, thus a variety of experiences will be catered for. Good liferoom practice such as measuring and observation skills, mark-making, and media exploration, will be always encouraged.
Important Information
There are no sessions during 26 – 30 May and on the 6 May.
What do I need to bring with me?
Drawing boards and easels will be provided.
Please bring
- paper (A3/2 sketch book)
- willow charcoal
- putty rubber
- soft graphite stick or pencil
- masking tape or clips to attach your paper to a board.
- any other media you would like to explore.
Other useful dry media include pastels, compressed charcoals, conte etc. If you would like to develop painting techniques, please discuss this with the tutor in the first session.
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
About the tutor
Catherine MacDiarmid is a local artist who has exhibited 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, London. Catherine has won many awards for her art, most recently the Watercolour Materials Award in the Jacksons Painting Prize 2023. Significantly, she is an elected member of The Lakes Artists Society 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 in collected internationally and she works from her studio in Kendal. Her artwork focuses on the human form and portraiture in both drawing & painting.
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