Schedule: 

10am-12.30pm: drawing/ painting life model (the model will take a break every twenty five minutes)
12.30-1.30pm: break for lunch
1.30-4pm: plaster cast drawing for beginners and portraits (with model) in charcoal/ oil paint for the more experienced students.
 

Morning session

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.n materials. 

 

​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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Materials

Canson Mi Teintes paper and Nitram charcoal is available for purchase in the studio at a discounted price for the drawers. We ask painters to bring their own materials. View our Materials List to find out what art supplies you may need for this class.