Drawing Fundamentals - A Monthly Series of Drawing Classes

Session 3: Large Format Charcoal Drawing with Naomi Hart Johnson

Wednesday May 15th, 2024 - 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Drawing Fundamentals is a series of classes focused entirely around DRAWING! Throughout our monthly Drawing Fundamentals series, we will guide participants through a range of exercises and activities that will explore drawing through various approaches and perspectives, develop your drawing skills and encourage you to investigate different ways that drawing can express our observations, ideas and emotions.

During each class of the series, participants will be guided through valuable short and engaging “warm-up” drawing activities that build confidence and help artists to loosen up and lean in to expressive possibilities of the drawing experience. Each class in the series will focus on a different drawing skill or approach and will provide participants the opportunity to experiment and also time to create a more developed drawing.

We will explore elements of art such as line, shape, form, pattern, texture, tone and color, exploring the effect of using these elements in a variety of ways to create unique works of art. We will look at inspiring examples of how other artists have used different ideas, techniques and materials to make their art and experiment with a wide range of different art-making techniques. Techniques used may include mark-making with pencil, charcoal, pastel, monotype print-making and ink.

This is a series of classes with each class both building on the previous class AND accessible as a stand alone session. 

Session 3: Large Format Charcoal Drawing!

Sometimes it just takes a change of perspective to see things differently. Join us for an exploration of the creative possibilities of using charcoal to draw LARGE, exciting drawings of things we tend to perceive as small, perhaps even insignificant. We will play with using raw charcoal, willow charcoal and compressed charcoal to sketch, build tonal range and create a large-scale, finished drawing that uses a unique or magnified perspective to explore an object in a new way.

We will work from first-hand observation and we will aim to connect with images, objects and even experiences through drawing exercises and celebrate them in a large, finished piece. You are welcome to bring object or images that you are drawn to or would like to work from, or choose from the range of objects and images supplied.

This workshop is for young people aged 13+ and adults.

Register below using our sliding scale payment structure.

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