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ArtAffect is delighted to welcome the renowned artist and arts tutor, Chris Kent, for a beginner's course for drawing and a refresher for those who have done more art.
What does it meant learn to draw?
Drawing and sketching is a great observational skill as well as a creative process, developing new ways to represent the world. Drawing helps you develop other projects such as painting, printmaking, crafts etc. It’s challenging and good fun! We will be learning to play with pencils plus charcoal and a rubber.
Drawing develops skills like observation, concentration and can be absorbing and relaxing, as well as encouraging mindfulness and developing self-confidence.
What will we do?
There will be a tutor talk and/or demonstration of drawing methods. Student practice - students will have the opportunity to try out methods (have a short break) and share their work, if they wish. 1-1 Tutor advice.
Students will develop confidence in their drawing while making observational sketches, to record information as well as working intuitively and experimentally with a variety of media, plus learning about ideas of shape, form, composition.
Everyone will have a couple of drawings to take home afterwards and Students will be encouraged to begin to keep a sketchbook to begin their own artistic journeys…
And the future…
There will be further courses about a range of drawing materials, e.g. pastels, (oil and/or soft pastels), inks (with brushes and other utensils), coloured pencils, (including watercolour pencils) and working in drawing books.
A word from Chris Kent
'Everyone can draw. Whether it is doodling while on the phone, scribbling ideas for a new kitchen. Everything that we see around us that has been made has first been drawn. When we run out of words we draw. By drawing we can create another world'. About Chris Kent
These classes are led by Scottish Borders based artist Christopher Kent who studied at Bath, Sunderland and Newcastle. He has exhibited his work across the UK, in Europe and USA, in group as well as solo exhibitions(including the Royal Scottish Academy).
He was selected for the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2016. He has written and published 3 graphic novels. As well as painting and drawing, his practice has also included wood sculpture and has worked on a range of private and public commissions, including for Marie Curie and the National Trust. His work is held in a variety of national collections, (including the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. His work also includes performance, which he has written and performed - ‘Compulsion’ (about Orson Welles), and ‘The Phantom’(about Edgar Allan Poe).
ArtAffect is delighted to welcome the renowned artist and arts tutor, Chris Kent, for a beginner's course for drawing and a refresher for those who have done more art.
What does it meant learn to draw?
Drawing and sketching is a great observational skill as well as a creative process, developing new ways to represent the world. Drawing helps you develop other projects such as painting, printmaking, crafts etc. It’s challenging and good fun! We will be learning to play with pencils plus charcoal and a rubber.
Drawing develops skills like observation, concentration and can be absorbing and relaxing, as well as encouraging mindfulness and developing self-confidence.
What will we do?
There will be a tutor talk and/or demonstration of drawing methods. Student practice - students will have the opportunity to try out methods (have a short break) and share their work, if they wish. 1-1 Tutor advice.
Students will develop confidence in their drawing while making observational sketches, to record information as well as working intuitively and experimentally with a variety of media, plus learning about ideas of shape, form, composition.
Everyone will have a couple of drawings to take home afterwards and Students will be encouraged to begin to keep a sketchbook to begin their own artistic journeys…
And the future…
There will be further courses about a range of drawing materials, e.g. pastels, (oil and/or soft pastels), inks (with brushes and other utensils), coloured pencils, (including watercolour pencils) and working in drawing books.
A word from Chris Kent
'Everyone can draw. Whether it is doodling while on the phone, scribbling ideas for a new kitchen. Everything that we see around us that has been made has first been drawn. When we run out of words we draw. By drawing we can create another world'. About Chris Kent
These classes are led by Scottish Borders based artist Christopher Kent who studied at Bath, Sunderland and Newcastle. He has exhibited his work across the UK, in Europe and USA, in group as well as solo exhibitions(including the Royal Scottish Academy).
He was selected for the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2016. He has written and published 3 graphic novels. As well as painting and drawing, his practice has also included wood sculpture and has worked on a range of private and public commissions, including for Marie Curie and the National Trust. His work is held in a variety of national collections, (including the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. His work also includes performance, which he has written and performed - ‘Compulsion’ (about Orson Welles), and ‘The Phantom’(about Edgar Allan Poe).