6 week Chinese Ink - Drawing & Painting

with artist & tutor Yuki Yang, Sundays 2 - 4pm

Starts 1 Feb 2026

280 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

All materials provided. Sundays 2 - 4pm 1st Feb to 15th March, no class Sunday 22nd February From Fine Line Ink Drawing to Small Freehand Ink Painting; this 6-week course is a gentle yet profound journey through Chinese ink aesthetics. Starting with Baimiao (fine line drawing), expanding into color exploration, finishing a personal art work, participants will discover how to express themselves through brush, ink, and composition. Baimiao emphasizes precision and clarity; Xiaoxieyi focuses on capturing spirit and atmosphere with freer brushwork and color. There is no fixed theme—participants are encouraged to explore their own creative direction. Each week introduces a new technique or aesthetic idea, guiding you from line work to color and composition, and ultimately to the creation of a handmade art booklet that reflects your personal vision. You will learn to: • Work with brush, ink, and xuan paper • Master line control and explore ink tones • Integrate color with expressive brushwork • Develop compositional awareness and poetic space • Create your own illustrated booklet as a final project Xinyi Yang (b. 1999) is a Chinese visual artist living and working in Scotland. Trained in art from an early age and graduating with a major in oil painting, she works across oil, watercolour, and drawing to explore themes of identity, boundaries, and cultural intersection. Drawing from her perspective as an Asian woman, her practice combines figurative and abstract metaphorical symbols with inspiration from classical Chinese mythology and philosophy, engaging in dialogue with Western artistic traditions. Her works often carry an intense, ambiguous atmosphere, reflecting on how existence and identity are understood across cultures. Yang’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery in London (POST//FUTURE, 2025), the CICA Museum in Korea (Text-ure 2024), and in exhibitions across the UK, China, France, Italy, and beyond. She is also one of the winners of the 2025 Delphian Gallery Open Call.

Upcoming Sessions

Cancellation Policy

We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance If a tutor cannot teach a class due to illness, the scheduled class will be covered by another tutor or the class will be postponed and rescheduled for the following week at the same time on the same day of the week. Make up classes are scheduled during the half term week, or in the week following the end of term. The Edinburgh Drawing School runs 8 week terms of scheduled classes, 9 weeks if including the half term and then 10 weeks to include a week at the end of term for any necessary make up classes. Thus, the business always completes it's contractual obligations of 8 scheduled classes to booked students. If a student cannot attend a make up class, no refund is due.