Developing Drawing Techniques

with artist and tutor Jane Weatherly Tuesdays 6.30 - 9pm 13a Great King Street

Ended

225 British pounds

Great King Street

Service Description

This course will allow the student to develop a body of work through personal, directed and site-specific projects. In the studio-based work including working from the life model, students will be guided through exploratory drawing techniques which will broaden the scope of their visual mark making to include the sensations of touch and sound. Students will then be encouraged to make a series of related works using a range of materials, methods, scales and formats; challenging the possibilities of drawing on the senses to make dynamic textural works. The course will cover: • Developing skills within the sketchbook for recording, researching and evidencing work • Developing knowledge of materials and mixed media approaches • Employing and fusing a range of tools, materials and techniques • Develop a series of related works through personal and directed study references • Use photographic references to support developing ideas and themes • Introduction to relevant artists In the first class we will be working from the life model and the materials you will need to bring are: • Willow charcoal sticks and a stick of black compressed charcoal • Black conte stick (square block) • a plastic erasure • putty rubber • an old soft rag • A4 sketchbook • 1 sheet of cartridge paper A2 and 2 sheets of newsprint A2

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