Challenge and transform your drawing and painting skills and experiences by exploring dynamic and playful approaches. Work from the model using a variety of mediums and techniques that encourage intuitive responses to spontaneous mark-making to free up your drawing and painting. Make expressive work from both observation and imagination, with colour as well as black and white.
You will work through a series of fantastical set themes and poses. Each day will have a new theme with long and short poses.
The course includes the following projects:
1. Playful sessions include concertina book drawing, three-dimensional collage and full scale ink
drawings.
Music will also be used to inform your mark-making.
2. Frida Kahlo, colour, dreams and symbolism
True to the history of West Dean College, this session is designed for you to explore Surrealism
through life drawing and the works of Frida Kahlo.
The model will be set within a mass of Mexican imagery and colourful fabrics, fruit and symbolic items, such as Frida Kahlo might have used in her paintings.
On completing the course, you will have experienced a playful and alternative approach to life drawing and painting, and gained confidence in working intuitively. You will be able to incorporate figure drawing with aspects of your own imagination to make rich and expressive paintings.
Included
- The model who will sit for the course
- Some paper, paint and masking tape shared amongst the group to get you started - more available to purchase from the shop as required
What students need to bring
- Charcoal in a range of sizes, a range of pencils, a graphite stick, a putty rubber, black Indian ink, masking tape, Pritt stick glue
- A1 paper – white cartridge and black
- Coloured chalk pastels
- Acrylic paints – a variety of colours
- A range of brushes
- Canvases in various sizes, card, boards primed
Available to buy
- Available from shop:
- A good variety of art materials are available to buy, including charcoal in various sizes, a range of pencils, graphite sticks, putty rubbers, black Indian ink, masking tape, Pritt stick glue, A1 paper – white cartridge and black, coloured chalk pastels, acrylic paints, brushes, canvases – ready-made in various sizes, card, boards primed (optional).
Additional information
Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear (no sandals or open toes).
Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm for registration
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included)
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential
Daily timetable
Course teaching 9.15am - 5pm (lunch included)
Dinner: from 6.30pm (included for residential students)
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed
Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm (lunch included)
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am
Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required
