T4 2024 Pen, Ink and Watercolour
4 Weeks with Alison Worsnop on Thursdays.
8 spots left
Course Outline
Pens made from steel, feathers, reeds and even our native speargrass are expressive and responsive drawing tools. They can be used with traditional drawing ink but also artists’ watercolour. The marks made by pens combine well with ink or watercolour washes to resolve and refine images. In this course, your Tutor, Alison, will demonstrate and provide practical exercises from the essential basics (such as how not to get ink blots) to traditional ‘rendering’ and more contemporary drawing and mark-making. She will share the techniques she has learned from Dr Sarah Simblett at the Ruskin School of Drawing and those she has developed using these media for quick landscape and wildlife sketches. The course is enjoyable at all levels. There will be a range of exercises: some suitable for beginners others for artists with well-practised drawing skills. Artist’s quality materials and equipment are included in the course fee. However students may like to bring an A3 visual diary or an A3 display folder to keep their work and notes. For a seniors discount of 10% use coupon code SENIOR at check out. ID will be checked at class register. About the Tutor: Alison Worsnop lives in the Rural Area and has taught art to adults for quite a while. She exhibits her art work regularly. Alison can be contacted through her website www.alisonworsnop.com or telephone her on 0417 881 854 if you would like to talk to her about the course. Course outline: Session 1: pen and ink – basic exercises in using steel drawing pen: Options: copying a fully rendered drawing or drawing small found objects; Session 2: freeing up – make pens out of natural objects and use them for gestural drawings of animals and landscape. Simblett’s animals, Margaret Woodwards owl, landscapes ; Options: copy a Van Goch reed pen drawing or draw your own landscape in that style. Session 3: Use of pen, wash and watercolour - like a traditional 19th century travelling artist. Options: copy an Edward Lear landscape– or your own landscape. Session 4: pen, wash, watercolour and wildlife- how birds and animals can be portrayed.
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Cancellation Policy
CANCELLATION AND REFUNDS Please choose carefully as course fees will not be refunded to participants who are unable to attend the course due to changes in personal circumstances or work commitments. Course fees will not be refunded once confirmation and/or commencement of the course has occurred. In the event of a serious illness, you may request to transfer to the following term. A full refund of course fees will be paid if the advertised course does not proceed. Participants will be advised if a class does not have the minimum number of students to commence.