Two Day Holiday Course | Seeing through Drawing: European Collections

Overview

During this course you will make drawn transcriptions from key works in the Rijksmuseum (which might include artists such as Rembrandt and Vermeer), in the Prado, (Velázquez, Ribera and Goya), the Louvre, (Poussin and Watteau), and the Uffizi (Titian and Piero della Francesca).

Drawing directly from great works has always been the bedrock of art education, enabling us to understand the technical and emotional legacy of some of the most influential artists in history. The online collections of these museums offer extraordinarily detailed, high-resolution access to individual works. Rather than rushing through vast collections, each day will be devoted to the close study of a small number of key works, approached through discussion and the act of drawing using multiple approaches and techniques.

Working through guided exercises, you will discover how drawing activates a different type of attention. What you draw, you remember; composition, structure, and colour emerge with new clarity, and ideas unfold in unexpected ways.