Essential Skills in Drawing and Painting

This course, taught by a professional artist, will help you develop the skills required to create representational drawings and paintings you can be proud of! We look at traditional and modern methods and techniques, and make these accessible to anyone, even those who haven’t picked up a pencil in years! We cover a range topics including: Basic drawing skills –if you are new to the course, you will learn specific methods to create a likeness of the object you are drawing. We’ll look at simplifying the subject using shapes, the use of proportion, and using the ‘block in’ method to get it right every time. Trying out different drawing and painting mediums for you to explore their properties and how they work Personalised development – once you’ve achieved the basics, you can then personalise your learning to develop skills more suited to your own needs. This can include practising skills from specific artists or developing the use of specific techniques. Please note: This course is about learning to draw using reference material and images, to make the subject look representational. We don’t draw from imagination (though we can investigate picture composition from multiple reference sources).