ONL24201 Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 1: ‘Essential Drawing Skills’
£214.00
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RSN Learn to Draw for Embroidery Course Overview.
You’re a stitcher who wants to create your own designs - you’ve got lots of ideas but you don’t know how to get them down. You need some confidence to have a go at working out your own pieces, and some help with choosing colours, understanding how to put them together and create a balanced and interesting design.
Have you had a terrible experience in art class at school but you still yearn to make your own designs?
This series of classes is for you! These are three short courses which together form a great introduction to all the skills you need to help you think visually, generate a range of ideas, and understand how to work with colour and what makes a composition:
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 1: Essential Drawing Skills. 2 days.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 2: Get Confident With Using Colour. 1 Day.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 3: How To Create Your Own Beautiful Designs. 1 Day.
The classes are designed to be flexible so you can take them as you want.
This class will not be recorded but we will be using ZOOM online platform, skilfully facilitated to ensure ample time to ask questions and get feedback. We will also be using online noticeboard Padlet to share your drawings and other resources. Links and instructions for these will be sent before the class.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 1: Essential Drawing Skills. 2 days.
Designed for complete beginners, especially those terrified of drawing, these two days will help you learn to see the world like an artist and explore different ways of interpreting that in pencil, pen and other media. At every
step we look at how this will help you with your embroidery, and how we can play with drawing to create ideas.
Caroline specialises in creating a supportive, encouraging and safe environment for learning; however terrified you are at the start, by the end of the two days you will have confidence that you can grow your drawing skills,
and been introduced to loads of useful drawing tools.
Day One: Line, Shape, Space and Proportion.
• Learn to use simple tools to draw and interpret what you see.
• How to see, in terms of shape, space and proportion, all of which are key elements to making good designs.
• How to use graphite drawing pencils and play with mark-making to create an impression of different textures.
• How to apply that to drawing what you see, learning how to check proportions, see negative shapes – the spaces between things – and how to scale things up and down.
• We’ll also look at simple perspective, especially of the circle, and ways of playing with it.
We’ll practice these skills with lots of observational drawing, looking at simple objects you can find around the home.
Day Two: Light and Shade, Light and Dark and How They Interact.
• Understand the importance of light and dark in two ways: how light casts shadows and creates the effect of seeing in three-dimensions, and how light and dark interact to help designs ‘read’ clearly.
• Work with graphite, charcoal (or charcoal pencil), and other media to explore how to create a wide range of tones.
• Learn how to make your drawing look 3-D using light and shade.
• Play with the interaction of light and dark in design, and experiment with it using some fun exercises.
• Thinking about tone in reverse! Using a darker paper as a starting point, play with using white in media such as coloured pencils, wax crayons or oil pastels.
By the end of these two days you will:
• Have confidence to play with drawing.
• Understand the properties of various drawing media and paper.
• Have begun to explore mark-making.
• Know how to make basic shapes.
• Understand measuring and relative proportion.
• Understand simple perspective.
• Understand how to create a tonal scale and its use.
• Model simple objects with tone and apply that to observational drawing.
• Work on different toned backgrounds.
• Understand that light and dark interact in designs.
Materials Lists and class requirements will be available in our online learning environment when you sign up.
What next? Take the Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 2: Get Confident With Using Colour course.
Please note that this is an online class. Please click here to view important joining information about online classes.
The class will run from 2pm - 8pm on Wednesday 18 & 25 September.
Bookings will close on Tuesday 17 September 2024
Your Zoom Link
The Zoom link for this online class will be included in your order confirmation email. If you do not receive it, please check your junk mail to see if it is there and if you still do not have it then please email [email protected].
Attendees Outside the UK
This class will run from 2pm - 8pm (15:00 to 21:00) UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during October/November and March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com. We cannot be held responsible for incorrect time attendance. Thank you
| RSN Friends – Priority Booking is Open
This class is currently available for Priority Booking by RSN
|
RSN Learn to Draw for Embroidery Course Overview.
You’re a stitcher who wants to create your own designs – you’ve got lots of ideas but you don’t know how to get them down. You need some confidence to have a go at working out your own pieces, and some help with choosing colours, understanding how to put them together and create a balanced and interesting design.
Have you had a terrible experience in art class at school but you still yearn to make your own designs?
This series of classes is for you! These are three short courses which together form a great introduction to all the skills you need to help you think visually, generate a range of ideas, and understand how to work with colour and what makes a composition:
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 1: Essential Drawing Skills. 2 days.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 2: Get Confident With Using Colour. 1 Day.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 3: How To Create Your Own Beautiful Designs. 1 Day.
The classes are designed to be flexible so you can take them as you want.
This class will not be recorded but we will be using ZOOM online platform, skilfully facilitated to ensure ample time to ask questions and get feedback. We will also be using online noticeboard Padlet to share your drawings and other resources. Links and instructions for these will be sent before the class.
Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 1: Essential Drawing Skills. 2 days.
Designed for complete beginners, especially those terrified of drawing, these two days will help you learn to see the world like an artist and explore different ways of interpreting that in pencil, pen and other media. At every
step we look at how this will help you with your embroidery, and how we can play with drawing to create ideas.
Caroline specialises in creating a supportive, encouraging and safe environment for learning; however terrified you are at the start, by the end of the two days you will have confidence that you can grow your drawing skills,
and been introduced to loads of useful drawing tools.
Day One: Line, Shape, Space and Proportion.
• Learn to use simple tools to draw and interpret what you see.
• How to see, in terms of shape, space and proportion, all of which are key elements to making good designs.
• How to use graphite drawing pencils and play with mark-making to create an impression of different textures.
• How to apply that to drawing what you see, learning how to check proportions, see negative shapes – the spaces between things – and how to scale things up and down.
• We’ll also look at simple perspective, especially of the circle, and ways of playing with it.
We’ll practice these skills with lots of observational drawing, looking at simple objects you can find around the home.
Day Two: Light and Shade, Light and Dark and How They Interact.
• Understand the importance of light and dark in two ways: how light casts shadows and creates the effect of seeing in three-dimensions, and how light and dark interact to help designs ‘read’ clearly.
• Work with graphite, charcoal (or charcoal pencil), and other media to explore how to create a wide range of tones.
• Learn how to make your drawing look 3-D using light and shade.
• Play with the interaction of light and dark in design, and experiment with it using some fun exercises.
• Thinking about tone in reverse! Using a darker paper as a starting point, play with using white in media such as coloured pencils, wax crayons or oil pastels.
By the end of these two days you will:
• Have confidence to play with drawing.
• Understand the properties of various drawing media and paper.
• Have begun to explore mark-making.
• Know how to make basic shapes.
• Understand measuring and relative proportion.
• Understand simple perspective.
• Understand how to create a tonal scale and its use.
• Model simple objects with tone and apply that to observational drawing.
• Work on different toned backgrounds.
• Understand that light and dark interact in designs.
Materials Lists and class requirements will be available in our online learning environment when you sign up.
What next? Take the Learn to Draw for Embroiderers 2: Get Confident With Using Colour course.
Please note that this is an online class. Please click here to view important joining information about online classes.
The class will run from 2pm – 8pm on Wednesday 18 & 25 September.
Bookings will close on Tuesday 17 September 2024
Your Zoom Link
The Zoom link for this online class will be included in your order confirmation email. If you do not receive it, please check your junk mail to see if it is there and if you still do not have it then please email [email protected].
Attendees Outside the UK
This class will run from 2pm – 8pm (15:00 to 21:00) UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during October/November and March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com. We cannot be held responsible for incorrect time attendance. Thank you