Keeping Things In Perspective Drawing Workshop – RBSA Gallery

Keeping Things In Perspective: Getting to Grips with Perspective and Developing Your Drawing Skills with Ed Isaacs PRBSAGetting out and about sketching the urban environment around us is one of life’s great pleasures. This one-day workshop will help you improve your drawing skills with a particular focus on perspective. Working inside the gallery we will draw the interior with Ed producing a demonstration sketch showing how he makes an accurate representation. You will then produce your own. Later on in the day, working from photographs, we will look at other ways you can improve your drawing skillsMorning:Welcome, introductions, and outline for the dayIntroduction to perspective and foreshorteningExercise 1: Perspective – A demonstration drawing of the interior of the Gallery followed by producing a perspective drawing of your ownAfternoon:Exercise 2: Architectural stylesIntroduction to developing your own drawing styleExercise 3: Drawing stylesWhat you need to bring with you:Sketchbooks/drawing padsYour own preferred drawing instruments, i.e. pencils, pens etc. It is useful if you go online beforehand and look at artists who are well known for drawing buildings e.g. David Gentleman, Paul Hogarth, Chris Lee, Simone Ridyard. Who do you like and why?What we will provide:There will be a small selection of drawing materials available at the Gallery.Tickets:£65