Using Galleries
These workshops develop alternative methods of recording what is seen, remembered or imagined. Galleries can be used as a starting point in initiating and developing ideas. Students gain further insight into the paintings / sculptures and their creation through copying them first hand. Ideas can be pursued in several subject areas.
Subjects Explored
- Artist studies
- Comparing artist' styles and techniques
- English through visual literacy
- Maths by developing design skills and creating patterns
- History through acknowledging changes in styles, clothes and ideas
- Themes - Landscapes, Portraits, Still Life
Techniques taught for sketchbook studies
- Measuring
- Tri-colour technique (from the Italian Masters)
- Styles - Impressionism, Expressionism, Realism, Cubism, Surrealism
- Cross - hatching, Pointillism
- Drawing spaces between objects
- Cover paper in charcoal and draw with rubbers (light only)
- Potassium studies
- Ink and wash studies
- Movement drawings
- Using tone to create form
- Drawing from memory and imagination