Drawing for Nourishment

Description

This course will push and redifine the boundaries of drawing in fresh directions. We will go from the super small to the enormous, from monumental to micro. We will be looking at small objects and the bigger picture; we will be producing drawings that are  miniature and others that are BIG, playing with the scale of objects and taking them out of context; and we will be looking at both representational and realistic drawings.

We will working between the conceptual and the three dimensional – we might start with drawing an imagined object like a leaf, and then move onto looking at the real 3-D leaf.  This also involves learning how to render drawings that look 3-D using shading to create object with form.

And we’ll be looking at drawing in both black and white to full colour.

Some formal elements will be introduced and covered to allow you a language to speak in, dealing with essential basics like perspective, proportion, line, pattern, texture, composition… all of the design elements.

We will use everything that’s around us - the wonderful scenery, found objects, personal concepts and our imagination – all enhanced by the freedom of a safe place to learn and to explore personal mark making, where you can learn that great artistic tool of confidence.

Using charcoal, pens, pencils, coloured pencils, crayon, and ink and a range of tools we will experiment, discuss, play and make a range of images from tiny and precious to large and unruly! Have a bit of fun and unlock the child that has been hiding away for so long.

At the end of the week you will have had the opportunity to try out as many different approaches as you have time for, and will have an exuberant portfolio of ideas, experiments, half finished works and perhaps even something to hang on you wall.

Jenni Doherty is an artist working in the South west of Western Australia. Solo Exhibitions are held at least once, sometimes twice a year. Jenni exhibits regularly at Yallingup Galleries and is represented in Perth by LK Galleries, Subiaco. Themes have varied over the past exhibitions but a continuing link is the use of pattern  and a fascination with time.

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Event Categories: All Events, Art Retreats, Contemporary Art, and Drawing.