The Fundamentals of Drawing

with Sophie Newnham

This course is designed to help those wishing to learn or improve their fundamental drawing skills. Knowing how to purposefully observe and translate what we have seen onto the page is a practice that is an essential starting point to any drawing or painting we create. Over the course we will be taking inspiration from the works of a wide range of accomplished artists and learning new methods to aid personal expression of the world around us whilst developing our own styles.

Beginners to Intermediate

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Upcoming Dates Spring Term 2025

15, 22, 29 January

5, 12 February

(Half term 19 February)

26 February

5, 12, 19, 26 March

2 April

Course Programme

8 January The line- shapes, spacing & mark-making continuous line. PICASSO

15 January Tones and Volume- Blending tones- 5 shades of tone. MORANDI

22 January Spacing, Subtraction- Negative space and placement of objects WENDY JACOBS

29 January Measuring and perspective. Adding depth and dimension, VAN GOGH

5 February Drawing a composition of objects. Foreground vs background, heights and widths

12 February Bringing our drawings to life. Drawing our hands in different positions 2D/3D ESCHER,

26 February Reflections vs shadows. Glass of water

5 March The world around us- Observing and drawing the room (or outside- weather dependent)

12 March Mirrors and angles, drawing snapshots of ourselves and others.

19 March Architecture- drawing classical sculpture and architectural details. MICHELANGELO

26 March Amalgamating skills. Recreating an artwork of your choice. Simplification vs detailing- what to include, what not to include. Where is the focus.

2 April Amalgamating skills. Fine-tuning and finishing off our drawings.