I recently gave a drawing workshop to a group of students who are studying at Queen's University, Belfast. they were from all different subject areas, from Economics to Philosophy, languages to IT. Every subject, except art. I admire universities and colleges who encourage student interaction outside of their immediate comfort zone, and this mix of students paid attention and came up with great results. I appreciate that some of them may have turned up because of the bribe of 'doughnuts', but they all drew while they munched!
The challenge for me was that I only had an hour or so. What to teach for such a short period of time...? I decided on spheres, using compressed charcoal on tinted paper. This medium is fairly swift to use, and the lecture was about LIGHT and SHADOWS.
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| My demo board, including explanatory labels about light and lack of light. |
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| Oil painting demos of sphere and egg shape, showing light and shadow behaviour. |
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| The results! All excellent! |
It was good fun to go out of the studio to teach for a change.
For info on weekly classes, workshops and group sessions please email julie@juliedouglas.co.uk
Website: www.juliedouglas.co.uk
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