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Exploring Drawing I Autumn

with artist & tutor Jeremy Barclay Mondays 11am - 1.30pm

Starts 21 Sept
360 British pounds
Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

All Materials Provided No Class Monday 12th October Are you looking for a way to feel more confident and inspired in drawing? Through practical, yet flexible exploratory drawing exercises, demonstrations, and references to drawings from a variety of different artists, you will learn how to ‘map out’ a drawing, discern proportional relationships, look for rhythms, patterns, contours, edges, and tone, and explore a variety of techniques. As well as developing technique and eye-hand co-ordination, you will be developing two essential habits of mind: how to look and how to interpret what it is that you wish to express through your marks in order to capture a particular feeling, detail, or abstraction. Drawing can be understood as the act of translating perception, thought, sensation, or imagination into marks. Scientifically, drawing is a remarkable coordination between visual perception, memory, prediction, motor control, and attention: the brain observes or imagines something, constructs an internal representation, and then the hand or body externalises that representation through movement. Drawing is not merely copying what we see. We draw to understand. A child draws to discover what a thing is; a scientist draws to isolate a structure; an architect draws a possibility before it exists; an artist draws to investigate something that may not yet have words. In that sense, drawing is a form of thinking with the body. It takes something transient—an observation, a feeling, a memory, an idea—and gives it physical existence. Perhaps that is why humans draw: because the world is too complex to simply look at, and drawing allows us to enter into a relationship with it—to slow down, select, question, remember, imagine, and ultimately make the invisible visible. Jeremy Barclay has held a long and rich career as an artist and international art teacher. Originally a landscape painter, he went into teaching and is a multi disciplinary practitioner. Jeremy possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills, he inspires confidence and trust in all who cross his path. Image Credits 1) Walter Murch, 'Still Life with Apples' 2) Landscape by Janie Baldwin 3) Flower by Jake Muirhead 4) Landscape, Paul Fowler 5) Jake Muirhead, Pears Black and White conte on Blue Paper 6) Sketchbook Paul Fowler 7) Cones, Aquatini by Jake Muirhead 8) Magdalena Lamri 'Expiration' 9) Anonymous

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. E.D.S. runs make up classes in 1/2 term or during an additional week at the end of term. If classes cannot take place in the studios for any reason at 13 or 13a Great King Street, they will an in alternative venue. Thus, the business always completes it's contractual obligations to booked students. If a student cannot attend a make up class, no refund is due.

Contact Details

  • 13A Great King Street, Edinburgh, UK

    + 0131 556 0971

    info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk

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