When you arrive on the Monday morning, you will be given a drawing board, paper and charcoal as we pose the model, We then spend a little time setting up the easels correctly so that the drawing - or painting - appears the same size as the model when seen together from a given distance. I explain the basics of the sight-size method for the beginners.

 

Easels are marked so that they can be located in the same place each day, as the pose is sustained for the week (mornings only) giving you the rare opportunity to make an in depth visual enquiry, and to better understand and exploit the effects of light and shadow. The model will take a break every twenty five minutes, and we finish at twelve thirty for lunch.

 

The school supplies Nitram charcoal and Canson Mi Teintes paper - at a discount - for the drawers. Painters will bring their own materials. 

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At one thirty we return for the afternoon session. Beginners will be set up to do a cast drawing, whereby they learn how to create from through light and shadow. Students with more experience work on portraits in charcoal, or in oil paint. What you learn from drawing the cast is a fundamental preparation for portraiture. Students pay their portrait model directly (£12.00 a day).

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Parking is available in the Cathedral Close (£10.00 a day) or in nearby car parks. If you don’t mind walking across the water meadows (with their stunning views of the Cathedral) there is free parking in Harnham Middle Street.

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Salisbury is full of little restaurants and bars for lunch or coffee breaks, with three or four in easy walking distance of the studio in the Close.