Back to Basics: Drawing Essentials

Join artist and educator Jill Martin Boualaxai for a relaxed and inspiring 5-week Thursday evening course exploring the essentials of drawing, at The Heart of Newhaven Community from 8th May.

About Back to Basics: Drawing Essentials

	8th May 2025
	6pm - 8.45pm
	The Heart of Newhaven Community 4 - 6 Main Street, Newhaven EH6 4HY
	£125
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Back to Basics: Drawing Essentials

Thursdays 6.00pm - 8.15pm from 8th May - 5th June

Tutor: Jill Martin Boualaxai

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary. Making marks on the paper has infinite possibilities and it is these marks that make up the alphabet of which a drawing is constructed. Essential to drawing is the ability to look and engage with the subject matter and to explore the world visually through mark making.

This 5 week course will focus on drawing the basics: texture, form, light, gesture and space. Breaking down each subject into a series of short drawing exercises designed to help you to intuitively develop your mark making and drawing ability whilst also challenging your understanding of what drawing is.

The course will also give the opportunity to work with a wide range of drawing materials from graphite, charcoal and inks. Each material possesses unique qualities that affect its mark making capabilities. Lines are infinitely variable, and each instance of their use is unique and particular to the individual who made them. They are auto-graphic and their uniqueness is expressed most clearly in our signature and handwriting.’ Jack Southern

Join us and explore your own unique and personal language of mark making.

Course fee covers all tuition and materials.

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