Sketching the Urban Composition Short Course
Course description
Course overview
One of the most engaging ways of investigating London's many interesting and unique places is by foot with a sketchbook in hand. Drawing is a most effective way of capturing your experience of mood, energy and architecture.
This relaxed and structured hands on course is ideal for those with an enjoyment of drawing and who wish to develop their responses to the city. Beginning on the pages of your book you will be given sketching strategies on location; you will then go on to create your own inventive urban compositions back in the studio.
On the first day students will sketch outside on location and on the second day use these drawings and subsequent plans to make one or more compositions back at the studio on day two.
Through a range of engaging exercises including imagination, mark making, compositional plans and looking at a range of city artists, you'll learn how to be more creative with your art materials and more ambitious with your designs going on to build drawings that have both structure and spontaneity.
Who this course is for
This course is ideal for students at any level who through a range of ways of working want to take their sketches towards a sustained, inventive and personal outcome.
No previous experience needed but having been in previous sketching outdoor classes could be useful but not necessary.
Key information
Topics covered
- Sketching on location
- How to combine these to make a final personal work
- How to use information from different sources to make a multi-layered composition
Learning outcomes
- Learning sketching strategies on location
- Making a range of studies and plans and how to use these to make a multi layered composition
- A knowledge of inventive drawing techniques
- Confidence to re-think their work and use different sources to make a multi-layered drawing on a larger scale
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance.
Materials
- A3 loose leafed sketchbook
- 6-8 pieces of A1 cartridge paper
- Pencils
- Large soft graphite stick
- Thick charcoal
- Sharpener
- Eraser
- Pritt stick
- Scissors
Tutor
Jeanette Barnes
Jeanette Barnes is an award winning artist and co-author of City Sketching Reimagined. She has post-graduates from both the Royal Academy Schools - Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. She has taught drawing in schools and colleges throughout the country with Royal Academy Outreach and now with weexploredrawing.co.uk. She is also a senior Tutor of Drawing & Printmaking at the Royal Drawing School. She has experience of teaching drawing at many levels from novices to more accomplished artists and always approaches her classes with enthusiasm and encouragement. She has exhibited in many group and solo shows including most recently, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, TBWDrawing Prizes and Woolwich Contemporary Print, and in 2023 was awarded first prize at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing prizes.
You can view Jeanette's work at https://jeanettebarnesart.co.uk/ or on Instagram: Jeanettebarnesart
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