Drawing for the Totally Terrified + Wine

BOOK the next Taster 18th January 2012 - £15 including materials + a glass of wine for yourself and/ or buy a voucher to give to a friend .

These will in fact will be joint DTT tasters and ‘Arty Women and Men' s’ sessions. The sessions will be  at 1.00 p.m. AND  at  7.30 + p.m. ish 18th January 2012.

This offers a structured [re] introduction to the fundaments of observational drawing for completely terrified beginners and shamefully lapsed intermediates..

You will explore various ways of seeing through exercises and experiments, try different techniques and creative approaches to mark making and use a variety of media to explore line, texture, form and volume etc.

 

2012 COURSES for 3 /5 / 8 weeks s commencing in mid January/February on various Days and dates [to be confirmed] with a half term school holiday break to suit any parents and cost from £17.50 per 90 minute session.

The  default days for the full course are Thursdays at the same times but I may be able to be more  flexible with the afternoon group and offer Wednesday/Thursday or Friday from 11-3.00.  E.g. If on a Thursday] from 19th or 26th January to 22nd or 29 th March inclusive  but there will be a break for half term on February 16th.

PRICES . Provided that there are at least 4 people enrolled on the course , the price per session will be from £17.50 pp per session for an afternoon session and £20 pp per session for an evening group for 90 minutes. The price includes refreshments and drawing materials .Thus a 10 session course will be from £174.99  for an afternoon group and £199   for an evening group for 90 minutes

 

PRIVATE SESSIONS for individuals/groups also available starting any time

What other people have said:

"The Drawing for the Totally Terrified class was extremely interesting, relaxing and fun...Liz is a great teacher! I can't wait for the next class to start"

"I loved every lesson. DTT totally changed the way I draw"

Are most drawing courses for beginners designed to shock and awe  rather than reassure or frustrate rather than elucidate??

'How To' copy book manuals or web pages full of Teachers' impressive qualifications, international gallery accolades with daunting Illustrations frankly intimidate me.

Even reassurances about ‘gentle’ approaches  elicit <<<<Psycho>>> shower scene sound tracks e.g. join pre <established groups + loyal followings> where beginners are ‘welcome’  and teaching will be <appropriate whatever your standard or ability>. Suppose your standard is off the radar and/or you never seem to get any better??

Finally if you do summon up the nerve to join a class [Why do they insist that you have to start learning from the life model ?] you feel lost among the masses and feel deeply grateful for even 2 minutes with the teacher who might just look, say nothing or even worse take over your drawing.

It is petrifying!

DTT + wine sessions are different

The first/taster session will be a particularly light hearted informal, relaxed and hopefully sociable session to enable beginners to understand and lapsed intermediates to remember what 'drawing' is. I will use experimental exercises help build confidence and technique and disclose a few tricks of the trade. Everyone will have a unique opportunity to find out if a glass or two of wine and my creative crisis management methods can release your petrified ‘inner artist' and get you really enjoying 'drawing'.

The following sessions will enable people who have survived the initiation to engage in additional confidence boosting drawing and observation exercises and to acquire further technical know-how in a slightly less convivial but still un- pressurised environment.

We will unraveling further 'Mysteries of Drawing' e.g., How to draw Nothing , the Mysteries of Deep Negative Space, Making your Mark as an artist ; How to take a line for a Walk; Baselitz Rules, and other frivolous sounding and grossly misleading entitled areas of artistic lore and malpractice .

After that? Subsequent terms will build on learning and offer opportunities to consider composition, colour and projects based on different objects, nature and life model.

Additional extended half day drawing sessions open to all are also proposed

Do you need a rabbit????!!! - No but I do . I really need to borrow one for my kids drawing classes .

IF YOU CAN'T COMMIT TO A REGULAR CLASS CONSIDER ‘Arty Women's Afternoons Off/ Nights Out - ALSO OPEN TO MEN for the first 3 month of 2012and permanently provided everyone agrees on the 2nd Wednesday of every month. I am also finalizing the 2012 spring schedule which will include opportunities to try different media including charcoal, various paints, inks, collage , mono printing etc. as well as 3D media like plaster/paper clay/papier mache. All of these will be suitable for total beginners as well as those who simply want to get back into some creative activity and do not have the space/materials at home or the time to commit to a course.