Tag: pencil
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Oakham Sketch Club
I realised the other day the Wednesday evening sketch club started 18 months ago when I finally admitted to myself that my motivation is sometimes (aka often 😬) lacking when it comes to practicing my drawing. I teach the importance of drawing skills as fundamental to progressing one’s art but ‘finding the time’ has always…
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Ragdale workshop
I did a trial workshop in October, mixing the options of Zen doodling, pencil and charcoal in this hour long session at Ragdale Hall. I would have posted sooner but my scheduling failed to materialise lol. Better later than never!! Our guests picked their preferred medium and chose a garden view to draw from the…
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Autumn is here!
Lovely morning today, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, the leaves were curly. Looking at the lights, darks, twists and turns of dried autumn leaves. More at Wednesday Sketch Club.
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Can’t Get Enough!
Having spent all day on Saturday enjoying all the quirks and wonders of the simple graphite pencil (not to mention a crash course in composition, proportion, negative space, blind drawing and perspective), I’m booked in for another pencil workshop at Rural Antics on the 21st to do it all again and it’s going to be…
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Sketch Club
Super first ever sketch club on Wednesday evening, focusing on graphite pencil. Got down to our rocky beachy shelly still life after a few warm up exercises. My favourite is the blind drawing… not being able to see what you’ve drawn is a wonderful way to really see what you are drawing in all it’s…
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Well fed!
As ever, lovely day at Rural Antics. Lots to learn at beginners pencil drawing, fun and challenging! Thanks to the students for their company and enthusiasm, and to Veronica for keeping us well fed and watered (we had champagne with lunch!!!!! Yaaaaay 😃 😍🥂)
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Last chance!
There are just a couple of spaces left for this Saturday’s Pencil Drawing Workshop at the lovely Rural Antics.