Drawing to discover: precision and representation
Weekend art making course
20 May 2023 10.30am - 5.30pm21 May 2023 10.30am - 5.30pm
John Madejski Fine Rooms | Burlington House
£420. Includes all materials
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In this intensive and enjoyable weekend course, discover the potential of materials, tools and techniques to improve your drawing skills and see familiar things anew.
Please note: this is an in-person event only
The act of drawing requires an intensity of looking, thinking, decision-making and learning. On this weekend course, learn not only how to uncover your personal interests and ideas, but how to get these experiences down on paper through drawing.
Throughout the course participants will explore traditional and contemporary drawing techniques used and developed through the course tutor Tanya Wood’s own meticulous drawing practice. Working from life as well as black and white photographs, your source material will consist of a wide variety of surfaces found in our immediate environment and within the Royal Academy. Using the unique qualities of paper and pencil, participants will produce life-like drawings as finished artworks.
Carefully devised exercises, discussions and demonstrations will reveal the vast array of marks achievable with graphite. Line, tone, texture, shape, form, pattern and repetition will be explored and put to good use where appropriate as the essential elements of your chosen images.
The course includes an exclusive visit to the RA library and archive for inspiration, giving participants further insight into ideas and methods on the variety of approaches used to make a representational drawing.
The number of participants is strictly limited to enable detailed feedback from the course tutor.
Tanya Wood was born and brought up in Portsmouth and currently lives in Waterlooville. She received a Distinction for her MA Fine Art studies at the University of Chichester in September 2014 following a First Class BA (Hons) Degree at the same university in 2012. Tanya enjoys teaching alongside her art practice and has delivered drawing courses at The Royal Academy of Art and West Dean College. Her work has been selected for the John Ruskin Prize 2015, Perfectionism at the Griffin Gallery, London 2014, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 and the National Open Art Competition 2012. Tanya is passionate about drawing, chosen by her for its humbleness and its extraordinary ability to communicate to many. Having specialised in textiles for some twenty years as a practising artist and lecturer, mature study shifted her focus to drawing as an end product.
Minimum age 18. If you have any accessibility needs, please contact Public.Programmes@royalacademy.org.uk
£420. Includes all materials
Friends of the RA book first
Our courses and classes programme
Our varied programme of short courses and classes provides an opportunity to explore subjects ranging from life drawing to the history of exhibitions and arts management, led by expert tutors and practising artists. These courses introduce traditional art-making processes, as well as perspectives on art history, theory and business.
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