All the best ideas come through practise, hard work and enjoying the process. A regular visual workout improves your dexterity, your understanding and your thought processes.

Sometimes it is hard. You have to take risks, and it might not always be a masterpiece, but to get better you have to take a step into the unknown. Then, next time it won’t be so unnerving.

Come to regular classes, work through different ideas in a supportive atmosphere and start enjoying the process.

This autumn join a regular Thursday art course with a mix of drawing, painting and life drawing. There is a price incentive to sign up for batched days at a time.

If you want to only do Life drawing, or painting, or drawing that is fine too. There are 15 classes across the three areas – take your pick. 

Maybe this sounds complicated – hopefully you can understand the variations. If you want to discuss options contact me Kate Measham

Drawing

• Thursday September 12th, Tone using varied materials
• Thursday September 26th Different weight, direction and sharpness of line
• Thursday October 17th Mark making: descriptive, instinctive, decorative
• Thursday October 31st A gallop through composition
• Thursday November 21st Experimental, risk taking, pushing to the edge
• 10.00 – 13.00
• £40/morning

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These drawing sessions will be based on still lifes with a different focus each week. These will include: line, tone, markmaking, composition, and experimental drawing.

Life Drawing

• Thursday September 12th Measured Life Drawing: pencil, heartbeat, space and time
• Thursday September 26th Line with reference to Matisse and Gill
• Thursday October 17th Moving model
• Thursday October 31st Two models
• Thursday November 21st Experimental
• 13.00 – 17.00
• £50/afternoon

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Painting – looking at the building blocks

Taught by Kate Measham and Chris Davis

• Thursday September 19th Tone and Tempera, light and depth
• Thursday October 10th Focus, bridging, line and contrast
• Thursday October 24th Markmaking, three artists, three styles
• Thursday November 7th The Fauves, colour, complementaries
• Thursday November 28th Painting people from life
• 10.00 – 16.00
• £80/afternoon

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To some degree these painting sessions will continue from the drawing sessions of the previous week. They will be based on the same Still life with a strong focus each week.

This painting is from my spring trip to Casa Rosa. For the autumn trip have a look at Autumn in Andalucia

All classes will be at the Studio, Bransbury, SO21 3QJ.

In addition we have a student concession at Cass art who will give you a 10% discount on a basket of materials for these classes .