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At Artpocket we strongly believe in the fundamental discipline of drawing. It is an underpinning skill that can support all other areas of art and design. Continued practise of drawing and observation will develop your understanding of compositional and application of the formal elements.
Drawing Heads and Hands (part 2) Monday 27th November 2023, 6-8pm, £25 Tutor: Paul Patrick Fenner In this one-off drawing workshop we will draw from a clothed model, focusing on head and hands. Exploring different approaches and materials including ink and charcoal, we will consider what it means to make a likeness. |
Figure in the City
Wednesday 29th November 2023, 6-8pm, £25 Tutor: Anna Brass Participants will make a series of large collaborative drawings with scissors and ink - figures, objects, buildings - whilst thinking about pattern and surface. |
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Introduction to Life Drawing
5 weeks, Wednesdays Begins 10th January 2023 Day time class 3-5pm Evening class 6.30-8.30pm Tutor: Chris Blackburn Course cost: £120 (including materials) This tutored life drawing class is ideal for beginners or people who haven’t been to a life drawing class in a while. In a friendly, relaxed atmosphere we will explore different approaches to drawing the human form. The course has five lightly structured sessions designed to get you off to a good start, and to build your knowledge, skills and confidence. There will be a mixture of fun expressive exercises, along with a few tried-and-tested traditional exercises to help with the tricky bits such as proportion, hands and feet. Basic paper and drawing materials will be provided, but feel free to bring along any favourite drawing media. To book contact Chris xtineblackburn@yahoo.com |
Life Drawing - Developing your skills and confidence
4 weeks, Wednesdays next course will be in 2024 Tutor: Chris Blackburn Course cost: £95 (including materials) This course is ideal as a follow-on for recent beginners, or for people who haven’t been to a life drawing class in a while. The course has five lightly-structured sessions that will include a mixture of fun, expressive exercises, along with a few time-tested traditional exercises. Each week will focus on some of the more challenging aspects of life drawing: heads, hands and feet, movement, and foreshortening. Along the way we will explore different approaches to drawing itself, and will also take a look at how different artists have portrayed and used the human figure in their work. Basic paper and drawing materials will be provided, but we encourage you bring along and experiment with materials and ideas of your own. To book contact Chris xtineblackburn@yahoo.com |
Sunday Sessions in Drawing & Painting
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Sunday sessions...Join experienced artist tutor, Kimberley Bevan who will guide you through a series of media and techniques in drawing and painting. No prior experience is required. Book directly with Kim via email kimberleybevan@yahoo.co.uk.
Please note that Kimberley will respond to your enquiry, if you don't receive an email, please check your Spam folder, or call Kim on 07941540726 |
My class with Kim was excellent. |
Funky Coloured Ink Life Drawing
21st January 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 A relaxing Life Drawing workshop which allows students to build core drawing skills while creating contemporary artworks around the beauty of the human form. The session aims to help students explore and learn human proportions, tonal contrast and contours while painting beautiful and unique artworks. The class will be working from reference images, so that student can continue after class should they wish. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
Stunning Palette Knife Flowers in Acrylic
18th Februray 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 Be inspired by natural beauty and have fun in an Expressive painting workshop full of texture and colour. The workshop aims to encourage curiosity and exploration of acrylic painting (altering consistency and texture to suit palette knife painting) and how to use a palette knife to build original Floral artworks full of life and imagination. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
Soft Pastel Life Drawing Workshop
17th March 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £20 Learn to combine beautiful soft skin tones against dramatic colour combinations to form amazing and powerful pastels artworks. The workshop explores and teaches composition rules and how they can be used to give your artworks a whole new dimension of creativity with some simple colour theory knowledge. The class will be working from ref images, so that student can continue after class should they wish. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
Innovative Acrylic Textured/Mixed Media Landscape
14th April 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 A playful fun workshop which investigates how textured and depth can be created in paintings to make wonderful and expressive landscape full of atmosphere and imagination. The workshop will explore a number of different technique student can use from building texture using fabric and paint to incorporating a variety of common house hold materials, aiming to inspire a whole new area of creative discovery. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
Sunset Landscape Workshop in Acrylics and Oil Pastels
19th May 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 An enjoyable afternoon mixing mediums and creating stunning colourful sunsets across beautiful Landscapes. The workshop aims to help student learn to build quick spontaneous painting techniques experimenting with mark making and observation, once dry the painting can be worked into with oil pastels allowing students to bring an imaginative and powerful hit of colour and textural exaggeration. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
Expressive Abstracts
(Acrylic Painting/Ink Art using Mixed media) 9thJune 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 Push you creativity and allow your imagination to run free in this abstract workshop exploring a variety of different effects. Mixing both Acrylic Paint, Ink and Textured Media student to be expressive and encouraged to be experimental, discovering all manner of serendipity and avant-garde avenues of exploration for further artworks. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
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Elegant Watercolour Portraits
(A mini study of fully dressed person) £25.00pp: 14th July 2024 1.00 - 3.30pm, £25 A relaxing and gentle watercolour workshop which will allow students to build core watercolour painting skills along with colour mixing knowledge. Working on a small portrait's student will build confidence and knowledge which can then be used to work across a range of other subject themes/ideas. The class will be working from ref images, so that student can continue after class should they wish. Please note materials are not included in the workshop fee, a list of suggested materials will be emailed upon confirmation of booking. The art classes are open to all abilities and level of experience. If you have any queries or questions, please feel free to contact Kim, she is always happy to help. |
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Drawing from the Figure with Frances Martin Fridays - 10 week course 12th January - 22nd March (no session half term 23rd February) Cost: £195 for the term Course now full, but one off dates may become available later Morning session - 9.30am - 12 noon Afternoon session - 13.00pm - 15.30pm Morning - Please contact for waiting list/cancellations Afternoon - Some spaces available, please contact Frances directly to book and for payment details. Over the sessions we will be working from models, with suggestions for work in both b/w and colour drawing media. The course is open to all levels of experience with tailored tutoring in a small group. Saturday Portrait Intensives with Frances Martin Autumn term 2023 dates x 3: Saturdays 21st October, 11th & 18th November Timing: 10am - 3pm (including a short lunch break) Cost: £123 Over these days we will be drawing or painting from a clothed model. A wonderful opportunity to have a prolonged chance to work from the figure, to create one work or a series of drawings. You are welcome to have a whole body, or portrait focus. About Frances Martin Frances graduated from Wolverhampton University with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 1990. After finishing her degree, Frances travelled and lived abroad for 5 years, gaining her teaching qualification (PGCE) from the University of Greenwich in 1997. She has taught art at a range of ages, levels and abilities, with a recent focus on expressive drawing from the figure. Frances works from her Norwich studio with drawing and painting media to portray the human form in various stages of emotion. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in Norwich and London. |
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