Drawing Skills
with Julia Hawkins
‘The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing’ - John Sloan
The Power Of Drawing
Learn about and improve your knowledge of perspective, form, volume, tone and composition – all essential skills for today’s artist.
Materials to have with you for most lessons: Daler Rowney Fine Grain-Heavyweight A3 paper pad, variety of graphite pencils from hard to soft, rubber (not putty), Stanley knife, masking tape, A2 plastic folder to carry drawings.
Algernon Newton Drawing of a cottage and trees on the edge of the moors
Autumn 2023 Drawing Programme: “Discovering the Beginning of Everything”
Wednesdays 12:45-3:15pm
‘Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything, and not having it, one has nothing’ Giorgio Vasari
13th Sept – Drawing Landscape. Both groups (10 sheets of A3 coloured sugar or coloured pastel paper, B6 graphite pencils, chalk pencils – brown and white, stanley knife, rubber, light folding stool)
20th Sept – Drawing Landscape cont. Architectural drawing (A4 hard back sketch book or clipboard and drawing paper, graphite pencils 3B – 9B, stanley knife, rubber, light folding stool)
27th Sept – Drawing Nature. House plant. (Good quality A3 drawing paper, graphite pencils)
4th Oct – Drawing Nature. Drawing live animals (subject to availability)
11th Oct – Set Your Interest Alight. Sketching people (Clipboard, plenty of A4 printing paper, medium size watercolour brush, sepia or black watercolour, jar for water; felt pens any colour, willow charcoal)
18th Oct – Half Term
25th Oct – Drawing humans: eyes, nose, lips. Both groups (good quality A3 drawing paper, range of graphite pencils)
1st Nov – Drawing humans: eyes, nose, lips cont.
8th Nov – Beginners group: Language of lines. Exercises (points, direction lines, angles, measuring skills)
Improvers: Head and torso (A2 paper)
15th Nov – Beginners: Correcting your drawing (points in space, tone)
Improvers: Head and torso cont.
22nd Nov – Beginners: Drawing three-dimensional objects. Combination of geometric shapes. (A2 paper, graphite pencils)
Improvers: Head and torso cont.
29th Nov – Monotypes inspired by Degas. Lesson coincides with the RA exhibition: Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec.
Both groups (smooth tile or glass appr A4 size, raw umber oil paint, small and medium hog oil painting brushes, zest, rags, apron, A4 printing paper)
6th Dec – Monotypes inspired by Degas cont. (bring works you printed during the last session, soft pastel, apron)