This class will show you how to employ a range of traditional artist’s materials in combination with one another. The class will greatly benefit anyone wanting to come to grips with the breadth of possibilities inherent in traditional drawing materials. Improve your drawing skills while also experiencing and analysing, the range of possibilities they offer an artistic practice, both individually and in unison. Materials studied will include natural and pastel chalks, pen and ink, pen and wash, white chalk and gouache, in unison with a variety of coloured and white papers. Suitable for beginners to intermediate. 

DELIVERY MODE

Face-to-Face

ART MATERIALS

• Oil based black chalk pencil
• Oil based red chalk pencil
• Soft white chalk pencil
• White gouache paint
• Stanley knife
• Kneedable eraser
• A3 sktechbook
• Two paper stumps
• Nib holder
• Speedball Sketching Pen Set with 6 nibs & 2 holders Black, 99, 56, 102 (Crow Quill), 107 (Hawk Quill), 108, and 512, Beginner Calligraphy Kit with Broad-Edge Nib Set
• x2 Watercolour round brushes - sizes 6 and 8
• One A1 sheet of watercolour paper cut into A4 size sheets. 
• Three A3 sheets of blue-grey paper or a larger sheet divided to size.
• Three A3 sheets of buff paper sheets or a larger sheet divided to size.

Materials to be discussed in more detail during the first class.

IMPORTANT: Please arrive to the first class with all the relevant materials. A lack of materials is not just a handicap to you but to the ability to teach. Materials cost is not included in a course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled WEA cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any course materials. We therefore suggest you purchase your materials closer to the time of the course commencing.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1

• Black and white chalk pencil on blue – grey paper
• The first class will show student how to employ black and white chalk on a mid-tone paper.

Week 2

• Red and white chalk pencil on buff paper
• The second class will show student how to employ red and white chalk on a mid-tone paper.

Week 3

• Pen and Ink on paper
• Pen and Ink will be employed over an initial black chalk pencil drawing.

Week 4

• Pen and wash on watercolour paper
• Students will learn how to broadly depict the fall of light and shadow and accurately describe the shadows shape with an ink wash.

Week 5 to 9

• We will then employ multiple combinations of the above, with in some instances, the addition of white gouache.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Gain an introduction to the use of mixed media materials employed by artists of the past.
• Be able to use different media to describe form, contour, relative ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ values and the distribution of light and shadow over objects.
• Make use of a variety of coloured papers in mixed media drawings