Hi everyone
Just wanted to let you know that the Beginners Drawing Course 2 is now full but there are still places available on all the daytime courses. If you don’t want to miss out on any future course information then click on the “Follow” tab in the bottom right corner of the screen to receive immediate updates everytime a new post is added to this website.
See you soon!
Wendy
Hi folks
Less than 2 weeks to go before the Leeds Art Group term starts. I hope you’re all getting excited and ready to draw. There are still a few places left on all 4 courses but they are filling up fast! So if you don’t want to miss out then get in touch and book your place.
Wendy
Hi everyone
Unfortunately, due to the venue being cancelled at short notice, we will be unable to put on our exhibition as planned this coming weekend. It’s a little disappointing but watch this space for details of our Christmas Exhibition later in the year.
Sorry for any inconvenience
Wendy
Sadly, we have now come to the end of the Beginners Drawing Course 2 and todays lesson was a chance to put into practise all the things you have learned so far. It was a team effort today to each recreate a small section of an image and then piece our finished drawings together to form the whole picture. This was a real test in accuracy for both proportion and tone. You all worked really hard and the final assembled picture looked fantastic. I hope you will all continue to practise the techniques you have learned over the past 8 weeks and I’ll look forward to seeing many of you in the September courses.
Bye for now.
Wendy
We tried something a little bit different this week by using pen and old paperback books as a background. It was good practise for your cross hatching techniques and the text provided an interesting surface to work on. It was great to see you build up these little sketchbooks with your lovely drawings and I hope it will inspire you to think about what other surfaces you could be working on too. Next week is the last lesson of the course but don’t worry because the new dates for the September courses have finally been announced. Go to the Courses for 2015 page for further information and call 07788 871286 or email leedsartgroup@yahoo.co.uk if you’d like to book a place.
Wendy
You exceeded all my expectations this week. Not only did I give you glass to draw, you also had water to contend with and all the challenges of reflections and distortions that come with it. As always we broke up the task into different steps to make it simpler, giving us some fantastic results. I’d be very happy to display any of todays drawings in the exhibition, so I hope you’re all going to be brave and submit some work.
Just email me if you need more information about the exhibition (Costellos Bakery, Headingley, 14th & 15th August 2015).
See you all soon.
Wendy
Welcome back to everyone after our half term break. We kicked off the second half of the course by trying something a bit different. Using fineliner pens instead of pencils we created different tones by using cross hatching techniques. We had to work out how to show where the light falls on the objects and the shadows this creates whilst also using cross hatching to show differences in the colours of the objects. Not an easy task but I knew you could handle it.
It’s time to start believing in your own abilities now. You’ve all improved so much since lesson one that you should now have more confidence in your work. With that in mind I’m very pleased to announce that Leeds Art Group will be holding it’s first ever Summer Exhibition at Costellos Bakery, 61 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3AB on 14th & 15th August 2015. A bakery may seem like an odd place for an exhibition but rest assured that Costellos have a big room upstairs where we can display our masterpieces and as most of you already know, Costellos also offer 10% off all food and drinks to Leeds Art Group members (just show your card at the till). So that’s two very good reasons for visiting Costellos!
If you would like to submit a piece of work for the exhibition please email me at leedsartgroup@yahoo.co.uk (or use the contact page) and I will send you all the details. It’s free to submit and it’s open to anyone who has ever taken part in a Leeds Art Group course. So don’t be shy, let’s show everyone what we can do!
I’ll look forward to seeing all your works of art!
Wendy
This week we looked at learning how to draw with the right side of the brain and used a series of exercises to explore how this can help us to draw exactly what we can see. We then looked at negative space and how it can help us to get everything else in the right proportions. There were some difficult concepts to get your head around this week and although it may have seemed difficult at first, I’m really pleased with how well you all understood it by the end of the lesson, well done!
Don’t forget, there is no class next week. The next lesson will be Monday 20th July. So enjoy the break and keep practising!
Wendy
Well done everyone! I gave you a pretty difficult task this week and you all tackled it head on. We made some observation drawings of pine cones and looked at how you can take a complex object and break it down into simpler shapes, then build it up gradually. I know it was a tough exercise and you all did amazingly well. If you are producing this level of work and it’s only week three, just think how good you’ll be by week 8! Next week we’ll be trying something a bit different.
See you soon.
Wendy
This week we continued to build on our basic drawing skills and perfect our shading technique. We made observation drawings from a photograph and concentrated (really hard) on making sure everything was accurate. You all worked so well this week and I could see that many of you were ironing out any problems that can occur with shading. Next week we’re going to develop your observation skills even further.
See you all next week
Wendy
