Drawing and mindfulness
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Online
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
Choose a start date
- Course Code: VO314
- Dates: 04/02/25 - 04/03/25
- Time: 18:00 - 21:00
- Taught: Tue, Evening
- Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
- Location: Online
- Tutor: Clare Barton-Harvey
Course Code: VO314
Choose a start date
Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
Please note: We offer a wide variety of financial support to make courses affordable. Just visit our online Help Centre for more information on a range of topics including fees, online learning and FAQs.
What is the course about?
Through a range of experimental and traditional approaches, be inspired by new ways of seeing and experiencing drawing. Try out a range of ways to draw inspired by contemporary, modern, and historic artists drawings and discover what inspires you about drawing, by engaging a range of subject matter and materials. Learn how mindfulness can stimulate creativity and a sense of freedom and creative flow.
Online learning can offer an enriching way to learn drawing and in combination with mindfulness guidance whilst drawing, and the quiet and privacy of your own home, it can provide a very creative context for experimentation and discovery. A practical drawing course inspired by the world around us, artists drawings, the imagination, and abstraction. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply.
This is a live online course. You will need:
- Internet connection. The classes work best with Chrome.
- A computer with microphone and camera.
- Earphones/headphones/speakers.
We will contact you with joining instructions before your course starts.
What will we cover?
- A range of experimental and traditional drawing approaches inspired by the world around us, artists drawings and the imagination
- Ways to release the limiting effects of the judging mind, so you can access more freedom and enjoyment in drawing
- Mindfulness skills and drawing methods to inspire new directions
- Explore a variety of media and subject matter and discover what interests and inspires you
- Some 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
- Pair and group discussion
- Personal research tasks
- Slideshows.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Pencil, willow charcoal, coloured pastels, eraser, pencil sharpener, 8 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 Mindfulness: tone, Life Drawing and Mindfulness, Drawing and Painting from the Imagination, Drawing and Mindfulness: the art of seeing, Drawing and Mindfulness: the art of being.
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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- Life drawing: experimental approachesFull fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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