THE EDINBURGH DRAWING SCHOOL
Edinburgh's original independent art school
Portraiture 3 The Structure of the head
Beginners ++ with artist & tutor Lewis Mackenzie, Fridays 10.30 - 12.30pm
Service Description
Portraiture Drawing 3 The Structure of the Head Term 3 of portrait drawing at EDS will continue to build on the lessons learned in terms 1 and 2, and will introduce students to mass drawing. Having previously developed their understanding of form and their sensitivity to light and shadow in pencil drawings, students will now work in charcoal. The focus will shift away from constructive drawing and towards a more impressionistic approach – using flat areas of tone (masses) to create a portrait by rendering the pattern of light and shadow on the subject. Students who make particularly good progress may also be permitted to work on toned paper using charcoal and white chalk. Mass drawing in charcoal represents something of a halfway-house between drawing with the point of a pencil and painting with a brush, and therefore acts as an excellent preparation for students wishing to progress to painting in the future. Course Structure: week 1: • Short presentation – Mass Drawing & The Impressionist Approach • pose 1 Week 2 : • pose 2 Weeks 3&4: • Short presentation - Modelling in the round vs. modelling by planes • pose 3 • pose 3 Weeks 5 – 8: • pose 4 Materials: ESSENTIAL (EDS provides): • willow charcoal • Heavyweight smooth white paper • Eraser • ESSENTIAL (Student provides): • KNEADED ERASER RECOMMENDED (Student provides): • • CHAMOIS • SKETCHBOOK for note-taking • KNITTING NEEDLE/KEBAB-STICK for measuring distances and angles • PLUMB LINE AND BOB for checking vertical alignments (a large penny washer on a string works well) • • SMALL MIRROR for checking your work (a smartphone screen is fine)
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.
Contact Details
13A Great King Street, Edinburgh, UK
+ 0131 556 0971
info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk