Discover how mindfulness can support a sense of creativity and freedom when drawing. Learn how to engage sensory awareness and enliven your perception and presence of mind. A taster workshop, suitable for beginners to drawing, mindfulness, or both!
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Through guided exercises, including drawing from observation and the imagination, explore how mindful drawing can support you to develop your drawing skills, confidence, and a light/playful engagement.
This short introductory course can be taken as a taster for those curious to find out how the two areas work together in creative practice, and as a step into our inspiring series of on-line drawing and mindfulness workshops: see 'What can I do next?'
What will we cover?
An introduction to mindfulness and how to integrate it into drawing
Explore a variety of mindful drawing exercises to stimulate creativity and a refreshing response to drawing
A range of practices to engage sensory awareness, to enliven your perception and presence of mind, when drawing
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
Engage in simple mindful drawing exercises to stimulate your creativity and inspiration
Identify how engaging mindfulness with drawing can support a light, playful and wholehearted approach, and enrich the drawing process
Draw with more confidence, enjoyment and creative freedom
Employ a small toolkit of sensory mindfulness practices and ideas
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
The workshop is suitable for beginners to mindful drawing including those with experience in one or other discipline.
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
Pair and group discussion
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener, 8 sheets drawing 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?
This taster course leads into a series of workshops in the on-line drawing and mindfulness suite:
Drawing and mindfulness: introduction
Drawing and mindfulness: releasing the judging mind
Drawing and Mindfulness: the art of seeing
Drawing and mindfulness: focus on nature
Drawing and mindfulness: into abstraction
They can be taken in any order, your tutor will advise on next steps.
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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