Life Drawing 2: Figure Drawing with Ink
4 Week Class | This course is currently not open for registration.
Explore a medium used by artists for centuries! Ink is a highly versatile, durable, portable and long-lasting medium. It can also be a good preliminary to gaining comfort with water media to lead towards watercolour painting. This 4-week course is intended for people with at least basic life drawing experience. It will introduce participants to a variety of drawing approaches using ink, particularly India ink. Participants will investigate a range of drawing tools and approaches, working with live models.
Students will try a variety of drawing tools and supports.
Demonstrations will be given, supplemented by hands-on exploration time with instructor input. Tools used will include steel nib pens, brushes, wood sticks and found materials. Supports will include cartridge paper, watercolour paper, Japanese paper and frosted Mylar. Approaches will include line drawing; shading through hatching, contour hatching and crosshatching; drybrush marks and wash drawing. Examples of some relevant artists' work will be shown.
Recommended Prerequisites: Introduction to Drawing and Introduction to Figure Drawing (or similar experience).
Base Tuition: $240 + Model Fee: $52 + Material Fee: $25 = $317 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- - The different character of line drawings made with a range of drawing instruments
- Creating light and shadow with a variety of approaches (drybrush, ink washes, hatching)
- Creating high-contrast and low-contrast images with ink washes
- Using line to convey volumes (contour hatching)
Thomas Hendry
Thomas is a Toronto-based artist, has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1996. Hendry has been active as an art instructor for over a decade, and he believes that learning art should be a positive discovery process. He practices this teaching philosophy beyond the Toronto School of Art at Sheridan College, The Haliburton School of Fine Arts, the AGO Gallery School, OCAD Outreach Program and the Toronto District School Board.
His drawings, shown in numerous exhibitions, use the means of traditional art to create contemporary images, images that address the beauty, mystery and complexity embodied in the human form.
1996 BA (Honours), University of Guelph
1994 Diploma (Honours), Ontario College of Art
1983 Arts; Sake Inc.