Drawing Portraits in Pencil
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family. Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family. Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family. Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
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YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Adriaan Vanderlugt
Adriaan began his art career as a graphic designer at an advertising agency in Canada.
In 1969, whilst travelling the world on a motorcycle, he was inspired by Canadian Inuit stone carvings to begin carving wildlife in soapstone.
Adriaan has now been carving bone, stone, wood, marble and metal for over five decades, and his sculptures of animals, birds and fish are held in collections worldwide.
He has completed public art commissions all over Queensland and, in 2003 received a Centenary Medal ’For distinguished service to the arts’.
A recent commission saw Adriaan sculpt in metal a 4m wide Manta Ray and a 4m long Maori Wrasse, part of a project to create Australia’s first underwater sculptures in the Great Barrier Reef.
Adriaan was filmed for an episode for the TV show ‘Colour In Your Life’ hosted by Graeme Stevenson, which has been distributed worldwide.
“Adriaan was supportive and very talented. He was incredibly generous in the way he endeavoured to give his time and attention to each participant no matter what their experience or ability.”
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Adriaan will share what he has learned drawing portraits at the Airlie Beach Markets in the Whitsundays for over 25 years.
He draws on A4 and A3 Visual Art Diaries at an easel and would take 7 to 10 minutes to do one drawing. Sometimes he was commissioned to draw from photographs which would take a little longer.
All sitters are different and observation is critical. Adriaan will address shapes, angles, compositions and tonal values. All eyes are unique, mouths vary, noses vary, hair styles are personal and so identifying. The sitter’s age will determine how many lines you draw. Adriaan will demonstrate all of these things.
We will look at doing portraits in side view, three quarter view and full front view. We will have some fun and draw caricatures.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that we will be drawing each other and persuade visitors to sit for us.
And … Adriaan will do a drawing of each student during the course. -
Please bring the following on your first day of class:
A4 Visual Art Diary
A3 Visual Art Diary
Fold up table easel
Pencils 2B / 4B / 6B
6B Woodless Graphite Pencil
Conté Carbon Pencil
Retractable knife to sharpen pencils
Rubber
Markers Pens (various sizes)
Several A4 size printed pictures of family members or friends you might wish to draw
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No experience required.
