Drawing & Painting Skills (Cahir Studio)

This course provides definitive information about drawing and painting and the current standards around tools and materials, methods and techniques. We take a down-to-earth approach, and demystify a lot of the jargon around art and its techniques.

Perhaps most importantly, this course will build your confidence and help you develop a ‘can do’ attitude! If you identify with any of the descriptions below, then this course is perfect for you!

• You’re completely new to art?
• You’re returning to art after a long break – maybe you haven’t done any drawing or painting since your school years?
• You want to improve your technical skills?
• You’re actively drawing and painting but there are still certain things you’re not sure about?
• You’re stuck in the same mode and need some inspiration and new ways of working?

Drawing & Painting Techniques

DRAWING TECHNIQUES

• How to hold and use the pencil
• Shading
• Hatching and cross-hatching
• Measuring

PAINTING TECHNIQUES

• How to start a painting and knowing when to finish
• Different styles and methods of painting
• Colour mixing, colour schemes and harmony, theory of colour
• Organising your palette correctly
• Brushwork
• Blending and transitions
• Impasto
• Glazing
• Using mediums, solvents and other paint admixtures

GENERAL ART TECHNIQUES

• Copying, tracing and transferring images
• Working from photographs
• Drawing and painting from life

Studio Best Practices

You will learn many important studio practices and useful information including:

• Materials and equipment
• Different art brands and shopping for the best art supplies
• How to clean and care for your brushes and other tools
• Preparing paper and other supports
• Stretching canvas

Artists, Styles & Periods

Along the way, you will learn about many great artists of the past and present, and the methods and techniques they employed and the results that they achieved.