Here are suggestions for the two sessions in January, but you’re welcome to come to draw and paint anything you’d like to.
Wednesday 14th – 7-9pm – Back to basics
Let’s start the year going back to basics, using only grades of graphite pencils to sketch and draw in monochrome. Don’t just use an HB pencil, get depth and shading by using several B grade pencils.
If you’re stuck for a subject bring some objects from home to draw or look at the Christmas cards you have to see if there any you are inspired by or start sketching an animal for the Saturday session.
Saturday 24th – 10am-3pm – Animals in Winter
Continue using pencils to draw your animal subjects in monochrome or add a little paint for a splash of colour. Look at your Christmas cards again before recycling as many have animals on the front. Think of…
- animals that hibernate – bats, hedgehogs, dormice, bears, bees, ladybirds, butterflies and moths, frogs etc, draw them where they hibernate.
- animals that don’t hibernate – squirrels, badgers, deer, foxes, moles, birds etc.
- texture – prepare a surface before the session. Add texture medium to watercolour paper or an acrylic surface and paint over the top, or glue white tissue paper down for snowy texture.
- draw or paint a winter landscape cold and grey in monochrome, then add an animal in colour.
- use coloured soft or oil pastels to give animals a furry feel or white and light pastels for a landscape under a blanket of snow with, for example, deer or farm animals in a field.
- If you’ve ever spent the winter in Australia or the Caribbean you may want to paint colourful animals in bright colours!
Hope to see you all in January.
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