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March 23, 2022
Drawing and Sculpting from Home: Capturing Movement
Does an action pose caught mid-movement just look frozen, or alive? This Easter Holiday, we are pleased to be offering some in-studio sculpture as part of an intensive five-day …Dec. 15, 2021Drawing from Home: Festive Life Drawing Poses
We have put together a selection of life drawing poses from our Festive Drink and Draw, with guidelines from tutor Jake Garfield. Draw from photos of our wonderful model …Dec. 14, 2021Drawing from Home: Human anatomy- from drawing to construction and back again
Take some time this festive holiday to try this drawing exercise, designed by our faculty member Tara Versey. Explore a scaled down skeletal structure of human anatomy in space …June 15, 2020Drawing Self-Portraits: The Drama of Light and Shadow
Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor Sophie Charalambous sets some exercises that explore the use of light and dark in creating dramatic portraits.June 11, 2020Portraits and self-portraits: Creating a subjective palette
Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor, Ian Rowlands discusses why you might want to use a subjective palette when painting a portrait and how to choose it.June 4, 2020Drawing Exercise: Everything is Related
Here Painting a Head tutor, Robert Dukes discusses the challenges of relating the model to their surroundings and suggests an exercise to help students consider how to place figures …May 31, 2020Multi-layered printmaking at home
Tutor Rossen Daskalov takes you through the different processes you can use to build up a multi-layered print with press-free techniques. Rossen will be teaching on The Drawing Marathon …May 17, 2020Drawing Exercise: The Claude glass
Drawing: Composition and Colour tutor, Will Topley introduces us to the Claude Glass and explains how it simplifies the tonal range and break downs an observable scene into manageable …May 12, 2020Drawing Paradise Exercise
Clare Newbolt, who is teaching Drawing Landscapes, Gardens and Natural Forms, asks us to embed our changing sensibilities in the natural forms we are drawing.May 7, 2020Graphic Narratives: Taster Exercise
Here Sarah Lightman, guest tutor for Summer Term Online (Drawing Graphic Narratives), discusses diary drawing and how we might use it to tell our personal day-to-day experiences.May 4, 2020The Studio Room in Colour: Exercises
The Studio Room in Colour tutors Mark Cazalet and Andy Pankhurst introduce two exercises that ask us to attune our eye to all aspects of colour.April 28, 2020Drawing and Mindfulness: Seeing and Stillness Exercises