Kingston Class Supliments

Nicolas Menard Frances Bacon David Hockney Lazlo Maholy Nagy Nicolas Menard Nicolas Menard Picasso Henri Matisse David Hockney

  Brief Today is the last life drawing class of 2020 and it will be the most free of the year. Bring with you anything you want to try.  If you want to repeat something we have done earlier in the year then this is the best time - be that clay, tone, collage, expanding drawings, colour - paint or dry media. I will advise you with what ever you want to try. I know that there are a lot of deadlines coming up and understand some of you may not be able to make it but remember that doing half a day of drawing will improve your concentration and help with all your other work. If you cannot make it please de-register or let me know so others can come.  The class is useful for all levels of ability.   Required materials and tools EVERYTHING/ANYTHING - Drawing materials, charcoal, graphite, ink, pastels, paint, scissors and glue – anything else you might want to try.  

  Brief Composition Alan Watts on Ma Yuan landscape paintings –   “One of the most striking features of the sung landscape, as of sung as a whole, is the relative emptiness of the picture, an emptiness which appears however, to be part of the painting and not just unpainted background. By filling in just one corner the artist makes the whole area of the picture alive. Ma Yuan was a master of this technique that amounts almost to painting by not painting” Today we are looking at composition as the central idea in our drawings. We will look at what makes an interesting composition and how we can plan this before the drawing starts.  The class is useful for all levels of ability.   As usual we will start with guided warm ups and the basic ideas but the rest of the class will be free for you to explore as you wish, you can explore something from a previous class or follow instruction. Required materials and tools Drawing materials, charcoal, graphite, ink, pastels – anything else you might

  Brief.   19/21 VOLUME Today we are looking at volume and form in drawings. We will try to look at the way we thinking about the three dimensional objects we look at while drawing. We will stat with some warm up exercises looking at volume.  The class is useful for all levels of ability.   If you wish you can explore something from a previous class or follow instruction - up to you :) Required materials and tools Drawing materials, charcoal, graphite, ink, pastels – anything else you might want to try.   Auguste Rodin Tracy Emin Auguste Rodin Florian Tomballe WEDNESDAY DEMO  –  Today you will also be provided with a chunk of clay to experiment with - you can try to make some sketches from the model in three dimensions and we will see if this leads to you thinking about your drawing in different ways. Ref.   Tracy Emin Augustus Rodin Willem De Kooning Edvard Munch Florian Tomballe