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LIFE DRAWING and PAINTING CLASSES IN DERBYSHIRE

Diane Kettle's life drawing classes
and landscape painting classes
 
Groups meet in Derbyshire:

WIRKSWORTH  MONDAY EVENINGS

BAKEWELL  WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS

ASHOVER   THURSDAY MORNINGS

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life drawing Diane Kettle
B.A.(Hons) Fine Art, Cert.Ed.

30+ years teaching experience
in schools and art colleges
 

telephone for further details:
Diane Kettle 
01629 636763

29 MARCH 2008  LIFE DRAWING DAY AT YOULGRAVE VILLAGE HALL
10pm - 4pm £23 [double pose John and Alison]

VENUE

DAY

ADDRESS

DATES

TIME

COST

 WIRKSWORTH

 Monday Evenings

 Town Hall

Club room

 21, 28, April

12, 19, May

 7.30 -9.30
p.m.

4 weeks@ £28
or
£9 per single session [2 hrs]

 BAKEWELL

 Wednesday Afternoons

Friends Meeting House Matlock Road

 23, 30, April

7, May

1.30-4.30 p.m.

3 weeks @ £24
or
£10 per single session [3 hrs]


Here are examples of my students work and the model at a recent all day life class.
Book early for the next all day life drawing and painting class.

life model and figure drawings

life model

charcoal and pastel acrylic


WHY PRACTICE LIFE DRAWING?

The life drawing classes can help your drawing and painting skills in many ways. It can teach you observation as it is not until you try to draw something that you really start to look. You observe where one line is in relation to another. You start to look at the spaces between parts of the body, looking at the negative spaces between the limbs, It can teach you proportion and perspective by looking at the foreshortening of the body

I can teach you how to get the proportions by measuring techniques. How to line up the body and to see the central axis through the body.

Life drawing 1930

Life drawing and painting is an academic exercise that has been taught in art schools throughout the centuries.  Our classes are more informal than this one from 1930! 

My all day class below has several large life paintings in progress in oils, acrylics and watercolours.

Life drawing class tutor Diane Kettle

Life drawing is a very good way of teaching the craft of drawing and painting . It is quite difficult to do at first but I know that once you can draw a body you will find it very easy to draw anything else. Definitely a good way for you to start seeing and observing for everything is within the human body that needs to be learnt for other drawing and painting skills. You learn and improve your skills with line, proportion, mass, volume, perspective, tone and colour By looking at colour and seeing subtle colour on the body will enable the student (you) to see more colour in the landscape and environment and thus increase a colour awareness and give more pleasure and appreciation to every day life.

All the different mediums can be used in life drawing

Pencil drawing where the use of the different weights of line can be employed different shading and blending techniques. How the rubber can be used to make marks and used as a tool rather than as an eraser.

Charcoal sticks - again how to get different weight of line and how this medium can be used for blocking in tone or making different textural marks.

Graphite, pen and ink, brush and ink, stick and ink, conté crayons, pastels, oil pastels, collage, all the  different types of paints, the list could go on and on .... use whatever medium you choose.

Enjoy your art!

Diane