For beginners or those that have tried untutored life drawing classes and found them to be a daunting experience!

 

What to expect

“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing” Vincent van Gogh

Join Annette in a supportive and non-judgmental environment to begin or nurture your life drawing experience!  Annette's patient and encouraging teaching style will help you to feel at ease and ensure an enriching experience.

 

Course content:

With the belief that fear hinders learning, Annette begins each day with a series of drawing activities prior to introducing the life model.

• workshop overview and easel set-up

• mark-making practice

• material familiarisation

• basic human proportioning methods

• Development of measuring techniques

• 'Fleshing out' building blocks of the body

• Using the envelop method to construct more complex poses.

• angles, sight lines, shapes, refinement

• describing volume and foreshortening

• introduction to light and shadow and shading techniques

 

About your tutor

Annette is a professional artist with a Bachelor of Fine Art and Advanced Certificate in Art and Design and is a Fellow of the Royal Qld Art Society. She has taught a variety of mediums in regular classes and workshops for over 26 years.

 

Annette is particularly interested in drawing and has developed a unique approach with emphasis on teaching fundamental drawing and observation skills, ensuring students’ ability to see and interpret what they see using graphite pencil and charcoal onto a two-dimensional surface. Her workshops address different learning styles and include practical demonstrations and media application.

 

Annette encourages her students to explore possibilities, make mistakes and extend on their own unique style while learning in a relaxed, friendly environment.

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What will I need to bring?

Essential Materials

• 2 - 4 sticks of Willow charcoal - a variety of fine, medium and thick

• Graphite pencil (option of 3B, 4B, or 5B)

• Butchers Paper

• Sanding pad to refine tips or a small piece of very fine sandpaper

• Stanley knife or blade for sharpening

• Blending stump (tortillon)

• Chamois Cloth (real leather, not synthetic)

• Wet wipes for cleaning hands

• Eraser (kneadable type)

 

Optional

You may have other materials that you would like to bring.

• Compressed charcoal in pencil or stick form

• Tinted charcoal in neutral colours

• Conte A Paris Sketching Pencil or stick