Life Drawing Intensive with Catherine MacDiarmid
This is a five day intensive focused on the rigours of life drawing.
Dates: August 31st, September 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Times: 10am-4pm, lunch 1pm-2pm.
This is a five day intensive focused on the rigours of life drawing.
Dates: August 31st, September 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Times: 10am-4pm, lunch 1pm-2pm.
This is a five day intensive focused on the rigours of life drawing.
Dates: August 31st, September 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Times: 10am-4pm, lunch 1pm-2pm.
About the Workshop & Tutor
Catherine is a very established artist working primarily from the human form. Being invited to feature on PAOTY over 3 separate series, and with her work being in collections internationally, and as member of many a prestigious society, we are very lucky to have Catherine share her methods and practices with us. She has over 25 years of experience in teaching adult learners/artists the rigours of portraiture and life drawing so we will be in very good hands whilst being put through our paces, whether beginner or experienced practitioner. You can find out more about Catherine here.
These precious 5 days with Catherine are an opportunity to be taken through many exercises designed to address the fundamentals of drawing from a live model, including instruction on seeing, recording, translating and measuring. Exploring mark making with our various materials and grounds alongside the fundamentals will allow for us to broaden our approach to life drawing, increasing accuracy and creativity alike.
We will be developing drawings using a range of materials including charcoal, pastels and acrylic paints, beginning with shorter poses, then progressing onto some longer, more intensive and challenging works exploring settings, scale, environment, and colour. There will be continual encouragement to step outside of our comfort zone and as such this course is ideal for both beginners and practiced artists.
As with all taught sessions, this course is more about learning that can be integrated into practice rather than on getting results and showing that which we can already do. Learning to record the most useful information about our subject, discovering something about seeing the structure. Learning ways of describing. It's more about succumbing to being a student and being open to discourse, intervention, and learning, so we can then make informed choices about what is useful to us and incorporate into our regular practice no matter what our primary subject may be.
What is provided?
All equipment, paper, and materials are provided. A selection of teas and coffee, organic milk and plant based milk, plus a selection of treats will also be available.
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