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ABOUT THIS COURSE
What is the most reliable way to approach professionalism in the fine arts?
Practice, practice, and a lot more practice!
What makes an artist a professional?
The ability to see, notice features, catch proportions, convey character and, of course, your own, unique style.
Sketching helps us achieve all this quite quickly – through quick sketches of everything we see around us. But, unlike sketches of large future works, such a quick sketch is a complete finished work by itself. And it doesn’t matter whether you spent 30 seconds or an hour and a half working.
In this course we will try to sketch everything we can see in the urban environment: people (general silhouettes, full-length figures in different poses, we will draw portraits), transport, architecture, urban scenes, food, pets.
The course will be an excellent start for those who have long wanted to start drawing in their own sketchbook, but did not know where to start, will encourage those who have already started to continue, and will encourage those who have not even thought of starting to try.
The course is conducted interactively, through the video call program Zoom. It consists of 9 lessons, conducted weekly from from April 18 to June 20, 2024.
Attention: April 25th is a public holiday in Australia, there will be no lesson. The first lesson of the course will be held on April 18th instead of April 25th. For the Saturday group, the first lesson will be held on April 20th instead of April 27th.
Time of Lessons:
– Every Thursday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm Queensland time (UTC/GMT+10)
(the same time in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra);
or (provided we get enough participants for one more group learning on Saturdays)
– Every Saturday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm Queensland time (UTC/GMT+10)
(the same time in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra)
Price:
$225 for a course of 9 lessons ($25 per lesson), or $30 per lesson if you join occasionally.
FOR WHOM THIS COURSE
This course is great for older kids. The recommended age is from 8-10 to 16 years, but since the format is family-based, this means that other family members can participate for free, without feedback. It turns out that the course is for all artists over this age in your family, without any age limit.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
What we plan for the course:
– we will learn about the basics of drawing quick sketches on various topics,
– we will try to do this with different materials,
– we will find our own style,
– we will start drawing on our own, outside of school hours, in our own sketchbook,
– students will learn to see, feel, convey the external image and character of nature,
– we will gain new experience and make good progress in the skills of vision and drawing from life.
MATERIALS FOR THIS COURSE
– Sketchbook with blank sheets of A5 or slightly smaller/slightly larger paper
– Craft-paper (brownish, unpainted paper or cardboard) A4 size – several sheets or a sketchbook with such sheets. As an option, you can pre-paint several A4 sheets with brown watercolors or a strong coffee solution in several layers.
– a lead pencil, an eraser
– black liner or fine gel pen
– black brush pen
– white gel pen
– coal of different sizes
– a set of colored pencils
– soft round brushes of different sizes (including very thin)
– watercolor paints (you will definitely need white paint)
– palette, water in a jar, paper and wet wipes, hair dryer – this should always be at hand
– ideal, but optional: a set of black pens/markers for sketching of different shapes and sizes (Black Pigment Micro-Pen Set / Hand Lettering Calligraphy Brush Pen Set), a set of multi-colored sketch markers, and any other art materials that you have and which might be unused for a long time. We will try different materials.
HOW TO START LEARNING
Add this Zoom course to your profile
To get started, simply add this course to your profile by pressing the button “ADD COURSE” or “ADD TO CART (ENTIRE COURSE)”. You will need to pay for a subscription for the duration of the Zoom course, if the course is paid.
The added course will appear in your profile and menu item “My Fairy Bird >> My Courses”, where all the courses to which you are subscribed will be collected for your convenience. Clicking on a course will take you to the course page.
To pay for an occasional attendance, use the button “ADD TO CART (OCCASIONAL ATTENDANCE)” in the bottom of the page.
Join a Zoom session at the right time, as per the timetable
Once the Zoom course has been added to your profile, simply navigate to the course content page using the “Curriculum” tab at the top of this page, or click on the “Start Course” button.
The course content page will contain a link to the Zoom session.
A link to the Zoom session will also be sent to your email address straight after completing a payment for the course (or occasional attendance).
