Look and Draw Workshops

Week 4 Blog

Back to Basics: Drawing Essentials

This session was all about Rhythm in drawing.

Rhythm is a basic visual concept that must be understood to create compositions in drawing and painting. We can say that rhythm is as a flow of movement, generated by the rep...

Back to Basic

Week 3 Blog 

The group was challenged to capture the action of the pose in 40 seconds!!!  When time is limited it forces an immediate response to what the model is doing rather than what they look like. Even the longer pose this evening was a succession of...

Hope you've all got your Christmas cards posted.  Here are a few of the lovely lino cut cards that were created in the The Safari Lounge a few Sundays back when the lovely Lorna joined us to show us how.  We will be running another linocut class in the new year so keep...

Week 8 blog

Contemporary Realistic Drawing

We are well and truly into winter now, the nights are dark and the air is cold. What better way to while-away a miserably damp evening than getting cosy, drinking tea and drawing? 

Everyone’s hard work over the term, and last wee...

Blog week 7

Contemporary Realistic Drawing

Artists have always used technology to help their drawing, such as drawing aids like gridded viewfinders and more recently, photography. We chatted about how we could use technology to achieve accurate perspective and scale in o...

These painterly mono-prints  are a great way of capturing the drama of the light. The poses in the session ranged from 2 to 10 minutes and so there was little time to worry about the detail but rather simplify capture the play of light and dark shapes in the set up and...

When drawing gesture.. draw what the model is doing rather than that they look like.  Gesture drawing brings life into the life drawing. 

 First Tuesday of the month downstairs at The Safari Lounge. Next date is 4 December Book Now

Contemporary Realistic Drawing

Blog week 6

We touched on the reductive drawing technique in our warm-up last week when we were looking at reflected light. This week we took it a step further by drawing with white conte on black paper. I threw a bit of a spanner in the wo...

Fancy getting creative this Christmas and making your own festive greetings cards? Join Lorna downstairs at The Safari Lounge on the 2 December and create your own lino print designs, learn how to print them and take away the lino and print as many as you like at home....