Drawing and Painting with Lorraine Taylor Short Course

Program Overview

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During this 6-week course you will be introduced to several fundamental techniques used in both drawing and painting. This evening course provides you with an opportunity to experiment with a range of different mediums whereby you are invited to do so in a contemporary way.

Program Outline

Throughout this series of drawing workshops, you are invited to experiment with a number of mark making techniques associated with both drawing and painting. Alongside this you are encouraged to explore a range of mediums.

Firstly, this will involve using core materials such as pencil, graphite sticks, graphite powder, conte pencils, charcoal, and soft pastels. Using this media, you will be guided through several drawing exercises, together taking inspiration from a series of images supplied by the artist; a moving train, a subject matter currently involved within the tutors own artistic practice. Through these exercises you will learn how to re-create the feeling of motion.

Secondly, you will explore a still life set up whereby you will concentrate on drawing objects, shapes, composition, and simple perspective. During this you will learn about the importance of tone whilst using charcoal and incorporating oil paint in a reductive way.

Thirdly, you will integrate the use of ink whereby you will experiment with different drawing tools such as nip pens and wooden sticks whilst experimenting with different control techniques.

Taking inspiration from the natural world, you will create further studies using acrylic paint combined with gesso. Combining the use of watercolors and drawing pens with wax resist you will examine pattern, texture and colour whilst drawing with brushes.

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Learning Methods

This course will be delivered on campus from 18:45 – 20:45 every Monday for 6 weeks. Please note there will be no class on Monday 17 April and Monday 8 May as they are Bank Holidays.

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Activity Summary

Minimum of 8 students, maximum of 12 in the group

12 hours of teaching in total over 6 evenings, 18:45 – 20:45

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Independent Study

Participants are encouraged to create and maintain a personal sketchbook which reflects their own creative practice, inspirations, processes, learnings, sketches and the work of other artists. Participants are asked to incorporate additional materials sourced from home to draw inspiration from. These involve photographic images, sketches, objects, natural materials etc. Additionally, this can involve alternative surface materials sourced from home.

Participants are asked to carry out additional drawing and painting exercises in addition to class time in preparation for the next class.

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Assessment

This course is not formally assessed.

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Staff Delivering on this Course

Lorraine Taylor, an alumnus of Gray’s School of Art is a freelance arts tutor currently based in Wasps studios in Aberdeen. The painter enjoys working with a variety of different media but primarily enjoys working with oils. Taylor draws inspiration from music, words, nature, and her surroundings. Through exploring a sense of place, the painter evokes the essence of place in order to create atmosphere, combined with an underlying narrative.

Lorraine Taylor Arts