It’s not too late! If you’ve been thinking about it for a while but though you may have missed your chance then now is the time to act. Contact the course tutor Wendy Atton to book a place on either of the 2 courses we have starting this week.
Click here to view the Beginners Drawing Course and Beginners Pastel Drawing Course details.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Unfortunately the courses due to start 12th February 2014 have had to be postponed until March 19th 2014. For all the new dates and details please see the Courses For 2014 page by clicking here.
Thank you to everyone who has already booked a place on the course. There are still some places available, so please get in touch if you would like to book a place.
New Year is the time for trying something new! So why not try one of the new courses on offer with Leeds Art Group? All materials are provided and the courses are designed for beginners, so don’t worry if you’ve never done any drawing before. All you need is to turn up with some enthusiasm!
For further information about the Beginners Drawing Course or the Beginners Pastel Drawing Course please click here to see our “Courses For 2014” page
So we finally made it to the last lesson of the course, well done to you all! I hope you can see how your work has improved over the last 8 weeks. To get us in the festive spirit we drew some Christmas decorations to help practise drawing reflective objects. A big thank you to Sally who made this amazing “Leeds Art Group” cake for us. I think you can see from the photo that we all enjoyed it and we’re all hoping that Sally will come back for the next class in February 2014 (if anyone wants to order a cake from Sally, let me know and I’ll pass on your details).
The Beginners Drawing Course will be running again in February along with a new Beginners Pastel Drawing Course. Watch this space for details!
Thank you for joining Leeds Art Group this year. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have and a Merry Christmas to you all.
Wendy x
This week we did some timed drawings. Using the same composition, we added objects to it and reduced the time allowed for each drawing. This was to train our eyes and brains into making quicker judgments on key shapes, lines and proportions in a drawing. It was hard work but hopefully you found that it helped when you came to make the final drawing.
Last lesson we tried our hand at life drawing, concentrating on the proportions of the human figure. It’s really important to get the proportions right before you start adding the detail and shading. As most of you discovered, using your pencil to measure proportions can be a real help. Well done to all of you for tackling the tricky bits – hands and feet. Just keep practising and it will get easier, I promise!
Week 5 was self-portraits and you all produced some great drawings. We looked at using guidelines for portrait proportions and then making alterations to those to create your own unique likeness.
Halfway through the course already! So here are the photos of our lesson on enlarging using a grid. Some people found this helped and some found it easier to work without the grid but it’s always good to try out different techniques and see what works best for you.
Last lesson we tried some different media – charcoal and chalk, and we looked at scale. It’s always difficult at first when you try new things but by the end of the lesson you were flying with it. I hope some of you will continue to work in charcoal/chalk in the future, you achieved some great effects.
