Look See Draw: Four-Week Drawing Course

If you’re looking for a new creative challenge this spring, join artist Franca Westaway for this four-week drawing course. The sessions will allow you to explore a variety of materials, processes and techniques for observation and drawing.

Session overviews:

1. Understand visual elements including line, tone, texture, form and composition; perspective, scale, proportion. Develop an analytical eye and make choices about subject matter and focus of attention.
2. Focus on shape and form, perception of spaces and relationships. Using viewfinders and picture planes to explore what is seen. How to get what you see onto your paper – methods, tips and tricks.
3. Ways of looking, seeing and drawing. Perceiving relationships – perspective, relationships of viewer/artist and object/subject. Pencil sighting for angles and relational measurements.
4. Perception of light and shade. What makes things look three-dimensional. Ways of understanding and exploring tone using varied approaches and materials. Combining all previous perceptive skills.

(Please note this is an overview of the course content and is subject to alteration by the tutor.)