Drawing & Painting

Drawing & Painting

Drawing and Painting

This course is delivered by experienced teachers and is aimed at helping you develop both drawing and painting skills. You will be expertly led and encouraged through the process of creating work using various techniques and will culminate in your creating final pieces of work in both disciplines..

The course is 8 weeks long Tuesdays 6.30 – 8.30, starting 28th March.

Week 1: Introduction to Drawing. Use of Art Elements in drawing. Experimenting with various drawing techniques.

Week 2: Recognise a variety of surfaces and materials intended for drawing. Interpret light and shade on a surface plane. Relate value to colour in drawing.

Week 3: Introduction to grid drawing. Begin with a series of small studies to practice composition, and value application to create form and surface.

Week 4: Landscape photograph will be selected for students to work from and the grid system and skills developed previously will be used to create drawing from it.

Week 5: Prepare for a landscape painting using the photograph from the previous week – use grid system from previous weeks to sketch image on card.

Introduction to Paints – techniques and colour mixing.

Begin working on painting – step by step following instructor.

Week 6: Continue working on painting step by step. Finish Painting by end of class. Students will be asked to source their own image for next week.

Week 7: using grid system – sketch chosen image on card and begin painting using skills developed in previous classes

Week 8: Continue and finish 2nd painting. 

Cost: €110