This serene lake (Lake Nerang) features stunning reflections, and gives us the opportunity to practice trees, flower beds and perspective.
It's also a great lesson creating a satisfying painting from a photographic reference.
Let's use the methods of J. M. Turner to paint this energetic, impressionist sunset!
Let's paint the iconic Sydney scene scene: Barrenjoey Head at Palm Beach, and let's do it in the style of Cezanne!
Get all your drawing basics going in just one session!
In this one session we will do a crash course in portrait sketching and drawing.
We learn to capture the positions of the facial features in in a few simple marks. This takes seconds, with a little practice.
Then we add tone and texture if we want to develop that sketch into a drawing. (Note: this is not the same face shown in the first example!)
You might be surprised to hear that human face is not inherently more complex than other objects. The real difficulty in drawing and painting it lies in our brain, which contains incredibly powerful "facial recognition software". This class will help you get past the stumbling blocks and get real enjoyment out of portraits.
We will draw studies which concentrate on a certain aspect of a face.
We will look at proportions, the basic shapes, the areas of dark and light (chiarascuro), and specific features such as the eye, nose or mouth.
We explore the benefits of using different qualities of line from very loose with a lot of circular movement to shorter and straighter lines.
Entry requirements: Sketching 101
