Drawing Classes in Pembrokeshire

Six weeks of drawing classes

January 2024
Starts 18th January
Finishes 22nd February

Thursday Evenings – 7:00pm to 9:15pm

All materials for the drawing class will be provided for your use. 

Price: £95 (all materials included)

What to expect in our drawing classes . . .

There will be a variety of drawing activities, varying in duration, techniques and materials in our drawing classes. We will be mainly working from still life, and if there is some fine weather, we can get out and draw the land and seascape around Stackpole. Each session will have a theme (see below for examples).

Mid-morning break and talk – We will have a complete break for a few minutes and have some tea, coffee, herbal and biscuits.

As well as creating our own drawings we will be looking at –

Looking at reproductions of artists drawings, their materials and techniques and how artists interpret their subjects through drawing. 

The perception of their subject, – an enquiry into the ‘reality’ of things and their scrutiny and perception of nature around them.

And the creative, emotional, spontaneous, energetic nature of their drawing.

Including Lowry, Matisse, Rembrandt, Millet, Bonnard, Van Gogh, Redon, Hopper, Kollwitz, Surat, Morandi.

Session Themes

Our drawing classes in Pembrokeshire

Line or ‘edge’ drawing … Activities will be based around the theme of shape and space in and around shapes; we will concentrate on silhouette and positive and negative shapes and spaces.

Light and shadow … Give form and volume to any objects and the shadows objects cast create an illusion of three dimensions and visually locate and ground any object.

Drawing an acumination of objects placed on a table. Here we start off by drawing the rectangular surface of the table in front of us, then a single object is placed on the rectangular surface and is recorded. Throughout this activity more objects are added to the still life. This exercise develops our spatial sense and ability to measure and record objects in space on to a two-dimensional surface.

Continuous line drawing … Where we draw from life without lifting the pencil from the paper.

Drawing from touch … without seeing the subject, we are gently lead through a series of drawing exercises where different familiar and unfamiliar objects are concealed in a linen bag and we draw them from our sense of touch. Here we learn to perceive and record objects through the experience of touch. Here familiar and unfamiliar objects are recorded in an often surprising and immediate way.

Drawing without seeing the paper … Here we observe our subject and draw without looking at the paper, this produces some extraordinary images that our imaginations could not make up!!

Drawing without holding the pencil … Here we observe our subject and draw without holding our pencil, ( the pencil is attached to a length of wood. This creates loose, fluid and expressive images and becomes more about ‘mark’ making.

Drawing form memory … These are a lot of fun and really help to develop our concentration and observational skills. An object will be placed in front of us and we will be encouraged to study it for one minute (in complete silence), the object will then be removed and we will be asked to draw the object from memory and in each exercise, we may choose a more difficult object to memorise. This is an interesting exercise as “drawing” reveals to us that our memory, only ‘remembers’ what it knows…

Drawing using a transparent gridded view finder … an accurate method of recording 3D foreshortening on a 2 dimensional transparent surface.

Drawing from nature …  Creating drawings inspired by nature … From the local landscape, natural forms and features in nature, from the ‘simplicity’ of nature and how to respond to the perfuse and complicated in nature.

Focus of attention … Drawing texture and detail from close up. Drawing from middle distance and landscape drawing.