Explore how mindfulness can enrich drawing and give you more creative freedom. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply. A practical drawing course from observation, and the imagination.
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Through a range of drawing approaches, be inspired by new ways of seeing and experiencing drawing. Find enrichment in a range of subject matter and materials, and discover what inspires you to draw. Learn how mindfulness can stimulate creativity and a sense of freedom and creative flow. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply.
What will we cover?
A range of drawing approaches inspired by the world around us, artists drawings and the imagination
Mindfulness skills and drawing methods to inspire new directions
Ways to draw with more freedom, enrichment and enjoyment (and less ‘inner critic’!)
A variety of subject matter for you to discover what interests and inspires you
Key ideas on how mindfulness works, with reference to scientific theory
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
Draw with more confidence, enjoyment and creative freedom
Apply a range of mindfulness skills in drawing to ignite your creativity and inspiration
Identify materials and subject matter that inspire you
Practice mindfulness to help you identify creative blocks and let go of them
Employ a toolkit of drawing and mindfulness methods to stimulate, inspire and refresh your drawing
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Suitable for enthusiastic beginners to drawing as well as those with experience in drawing or mindfulness who wish to re-fresh their practice and stimulate new directions.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Through guided mindfulness practices
Demonstration of drawing methods
Practical drawing exercises
One to one tutoring
Pair and group discussion
Personal research tasks
Slideshows, hand-outs and other practical learning resources
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Pencil, willow charcoal, coloured pastels, eraser, pencil sharpener, 30 sheets cartridge paper e.g. A2 or A3, plus any other drawing materials you’d like to use.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Drawing and painting from the imagination, Drawing and mindfulness: releasing the judging mind, Drawing and mindfulness: the art of seeing, Drawing and mindfulness: contemporary focus on nature, Drawing and mindfulness: into abstraction.
Clare Barton-Harvey is a full time artist and tutor/trainer living in London. In her teaching, she specialises in life drawing, drawing and mindfulness, working with colour, and painting from the imagination. She is an engaging and inspired tutor responsive to individual need and encouraging of individual growth/expression. In 2003, she studied at the Royal Drawing School, where she engaged in life drawing and the study of contemporary and historic artist’s drawings as part of the Drawing Year. In 2017 she engaged in post-graduate study with Bob and Roberta Smith (RA) and has exhibited solo and in a variety of group shows throughout the UK. You can see her work at www.cbarton-harvey.co.uk. Clare has been a practicing artist & mindfulness practitioner for over 25 years, and has taught drawing and painting for over 18 years, in a variety of locations currently including the National Gallery, British Museum, British Library, Pallant House and Hampton Court Palace. She is also co-founder of LIMINA collective (www.liminacollective.com) who specialise in mindful engagement with art in galleries and museums.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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