About this course
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FDAD (Drawing) workshop with Joanna Veevers (FDAD only)
Thursday 3 December 2026
Make a line, discover a pathway.
The exercises and activities of the day will be represented visually and physically on paper as an accumulation of drawings, marks, rubbings and monoprint experiments creating a sort of timeline or map. Drawn line in various media will be the fundamental element that holds everything together. The lines will be a metaphor for pathways, journeys, walking and finding, accumulation, getting lost, finding the way, slowing down, speeding up, making choices, meandering and discovering. Different qualities and scales of line can be representative and symbolic.
The emphasis will be on experimentation, metaphor and suggestion rather than creating a literal timeline, or being concerned with picture making.
The work can evolve and create an assemblage that, at the end of the day, results in a horizontal or vertical piece of work that can be suspended or laid flat.
Materials and equipment:
Water based drawing ink, (e.g. Quink), and/or watercolour paints.
White wax crayon or candle
Kebab skewer or sharpened twig to dip in ink and draw with
Sharp hard pencil
HB pencil
Soft pencil (maybe 9B)
Soft (9B) Graphite stick
Coloured pencil (any colour/s)
Any additional drawing materials you may have already – pens, charcoal, conte, biro\'85
Eraser
Sharpener
Cloth or rag
Paint brushes
Stapler
Oil based printing ink (any colour/s)
Scissors
Masking tape
Glue stick
Printing Roller
Sheet of smooth glass, Perspex or thick acetate to roll ink out
Textures to make rubbings from
A drawing board or something to tape papers to and carry outside for mark making – around A2 size if possible.
A good supply of all kinds of paper but especially cartridge paper, but also newsprint, brown paper, old maps, printed pages, tracing paper, carbon paper, copier paper etc.
You will need the papers to be cut into pieces that are long and narrow. This can be done on the day. Just collect as much as you can – A4/A3/A2/A1 plus offcuts and remnants.
