Creative Sketchbook

Open to all adults. A little previous art experience will be useful but is not essential.

Creative Sketchbook is a drawing, painting and mixed media course. It would suit participants who enjoy experimenting with different materials and approaches. Sketchbooks are used widely as a reference tool by art students and artists alike and are used to explore and develop creative skills and ideas.

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Experimental Colour and Texture (April-May)

The project for this 6 week session (April-May) is Experimental Colour and Texture. This course will develop your understanding of colour theory and how to use colour expressively. Different methods of depicting textures and using line in more abstract ways will also be explored. The course will first focus on painting then on developing your mark-making range and creativity with texture and pattern in both abstract and representational ways.

* Exploring drawing: Using the grid to aid objective drawing.
* Mark-making – following simple rules to make creative and complex surface textures and patterns, applying abstract marks to a representational image.
* Understanding colour Learning how to mix from the primaries and analyse a colour’s bias.
* Mixing a variety of warm and cool greys from the complementaries.
* Analysing Fauvist paintings.
* Using colour in a subjective expressive way.

Material
A4 or A3 cartridge hardback sketchbook, collection of drawing pencils (HB, 2B, 6B), eraser, ruler, glue, scissors. Warm & cool red, yellow & blue (suggested: cadmium red, alizarin crimson, lemon, cadmium yellow, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, viridian or winsor green) in watercolour*, gouache or acrylic paint, minimum 2 brushes: 1 wash brush and 1 medium (size 5 – 8) brush, palette. At least two fibre-tipped black or dark-coloured pens with different nib sizes.

Optional: 2 or 3 sheets of watercolour or acrylic paper. A selection of coloured media which could include: water-soluble pencils or crayons, pastels, or felt pens. Materials will be discussed during your first session with your tutor and you may already have some art materials which can be used. Please bring paints, brushes, palette, sketchbook, ruler. pencils and eraser to to the first session, along with watercolour or acrylic paper if owned.

* cotman watercolour travel set should have all that you need.

Tutor
Emily Burton

Dates
6 weeks from 18 April 2023
18, 25 April 2, 9, 16, 23 May
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Travel Sketchbook (June – July)

The project for this six week block teaches you how to use a sketchbook outdoors to record urban and rural landscapes, people, animals and objects. You will learn a range of approaches in different media and how to use a sketchbook confidently in a public environment and during travel journeys. Weather permitting we will draw outside for one or two sessions. All other sessions will take place in the studio.Core SkillsExploring drawing – both drawing in proportion and capturing the gesture. Using line and wash in experimental and traditional ways. Recording a sense of place through mini compositions. Capturing people and animals quickly and placing them within a scene.

Material
A4 or A3 cartridge hardback sketchbook, Approx 3 or 4 sheets of cold-pressed A4 watercolour paper, collection of drawing pencils (H, HB, 2B, 6B), willow charcoal sticks – ideally mixed sizes, masking tape, putty rubber, ruler, glue, scissors. At least two dark-coloured pens of different nib widths (e.g. dip pens and bottle of ink, felt pens, brush pens, drawing pens, fineliners). A selection of coloured media which could include: water-soluble pencils or crayons, pastels, or felt pens. A small selection of watercolour paints, 2-3 brushes: 1 wash brush and 1 medium (size 5 – 8) brush, palette. Art masking fluid in either pen or liquid form.

Optional: Any other personally preferred materials e.g. inks, pens, paints, conte. A craft knife/ scalpel and recycled papers are sometimes useful. Materials will be discussed during your first session with your tutor and you may have already some art materials which can be used. Please bring pens, paints, pencils, ruler and sketchbook to the first session.

Tutor
Emily Burton

Dates
6 weeks from 6 June 2023
6, 13, 20, 27 June 4, 11 July

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