Drawing is the most basic skill elemental to all art forms. Learning to draw teaches us to really look at the world around us. Suddenly we see shadow, shapes and colour all the more brilliantly. It forces us to stop and really study something and the memory of this will stay with us forever. In this fun and challenging one day workshop you will learn the fundamental skills of drawing from observation. Using a still life as subject matter experienced tutor Ochre Lawson will guide students through exercises in learning how to see shape, proportion and tone using charcoal and limited chalk pastel as our medium. She will also introduce master artists work and demonstrate techniques in how to draw. Ochre is a professional artist of over 15 years who gained her degree at the prestigious National Art School where drawing is the keystone to all their teaching.
In this workshop you will learn-
- how to draw from observation
- how to measure proportions
- how to see and render tone, texture and line using charcoal
- limited use of chalk pastel
- about historical and contemporary artists
- about different drawing materials
In this fun and informative one day workshop students will learn the fundamentals of using watercolour, loosely using landscape as our subject matter. Painting with watercolour is a challenging yet wonderful way to render the landscape being light weight and water based. Professional landscape artist and experienced tutor of over 15 years Ochre Lawson , will facilitate the workshop with demonstrations of different watercolour techniques using both pencil and watercolour. Ochre uses watercolour and pencil in her own art when she is getting her source material for her paintings. She will also talk about different master artists and how they interpreted the landscape with watercolour.
Things you will learn
- Introduction to watercolour techniques – mixing wet into wet, wet on dry
- Brushwork – creating washes, drawing with a brush, wiping off
- Mixing colour – transparent and opaque
- About Chroma, Hue and Tonal effects
- Basics of landscape composition
- Perspective and proportion in the landscape
- About Master watercolour artists
In this fun and challenging one day workshop students will learn the fundamentals of painting with a still life of flowers as subject matter. Drawing and painting from the still life set up will be explored teaching students how to draw and paint from observation. Students will learn methods of drawing an initial sketch, how to mix paint and apply tone and how to mix a limited colour palette. Students may use either acrylic or oil paint. Master artists will be referenced and experienced tutor Ochre Lawson will demonstrate different painting and drawing techniques. Ochre is a professional artist and tutor of more than 15 years used to working with a variety of students level of experience. Ochre’s approach to teaching is structured with demonstrations of techniques, showing images of different artists work and step-by-step instructions . This class is appropriate for complete beginners to more experienced.
You will learn about:
- how to draw and paint from observation
- how to measure basic proportions
- How to set up a painting palette, basic colours, brushes and materials
- how to see and paint tone
- how to mix a limited colour palette
- How to use a variety of brush marks
- About historical and contemporary artists
