Thomas Hendry

Intermediate Portrait: Portraits Drawing in Ink

5 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-10-14 12:00 PM

Adult: Intermediate - Advanced
2026-02-25-2026-03-25
2:00 PM-5:00 PM on Wed
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$362.00 CAD

Intermediate Portrait: Portraits Drawing in Ink

5 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-10-14 12:00 PM

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 short course is intended for people with at least basic in-person portrait 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. Approaches will include line drawing; shading through hatching, contour hatching and crosshatching, dry brush marks and wash drawing. Examples of some relevant artists & work will be shown.

Recommended Prerequisites: Introduction to Drawing, and in-person portrait drawing experience (Portrait Drawing Basics or similar experience)

Base Tuition: $282 + Model Fee: $70 + Material Fee: $10 = $362 Total __________________________________________________________________________________

  • 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 (dry brush, ink washes, hatching)
    - creating high-contrast and low-contrast images with ink washes
    - using line to convey volumes (contour hatching)

  • Material List for Intermediate Portrait: Portrait Drawing in Ink
    Please keep all purchase receipts in case items need to be returned. 

    • an 18 x 24” pad of lightweight drawing paper. (Canson XL Drawing or XL Sketch

    is fine)

    • an 18 x 24” pad of drawing paper with at least 20 sheets of paper suitable for

    water media (Canson Mixed Media of Canson XL series watercolour paper) are good.

    • Optional - 3 sheets of watercolour paper, 22 x 30”, 300 g/m2 (140 lbs). Heavier

    weight even better. Cold-press okay, but hot-press may work best.

    • A #4 round nylon bristle water media brush

    • A ¾” or 1” white nylon flat water media brush

    • A small bottle of india ink

    • H pencil

    • Eraser

    • Utility knife

    • 1” Bulldog or foldback clip to hold paper

    • 1 roll of ½ or ¾” masking tape


    *note - if you have other ink drawing tools you wish to bring along, that is fine too.

Hendry, Thomas
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.