online CLASSES!
Beginners' Watercolour Urban Landscapes: Napoli
Weds November 30th, 18:00-20:00 (Zoom Link emailed after purchase)
Walk through the sun drenched streets of Napoli and its environs in this beginners’ watercolour class dedicated to painting urban landscapes. After a little bit of art history, we’ll be focussed on capturing the streets that engendered some of arts greatest forces. Taught by landscape artist Ann Mackowski, in this class we’ll be covering
-Brief Art History of Naples
-Using Watercolours
-Quick Studies—Light and Shade in Urban Landscapes
-Completing a Watercolour Street Scene of Naples
Using recent reference photos from November, you can expect to finish the class with a beautiful watercolour painting.
Please Bring
-Watercolours (any type/brand fine) *necessary
-Watercolour Paper (the thicker the better) *necessary
-Tape if you have it (painting tape ideal)
-Watercolour Brushes
-Two Cups of Water *necessary
-Paper Towel or Rags
-Hairdryer
All levels are warmly welcomed! For more information feel free to contact Ann at soholifedrawing@gmail.com
Beginners' Watercolour Nude: Layering
Sunday December 4th, 20:00-22:00 (Zoom link emailed after purchase)
In this beginners class we’ll be learning to create flesh tones through layering—a practice that involves making thin, quick washes of colour across a base composition. As an introductory class, we’ll be approaching the technique through a thorough examination of the basics of watercolour use before moving on to complete paintings. We’ll be covering
—Drafting a Nude Painting
—Light and Shade
—Color Choice
—Brush Technique and “Washes”
Ann will be using a watercolour palette, although you’re welcome to bring watercolours in tubes. It’s recommended that you bring a set that contains earth tones (Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Crimson, Etc…), but we’ll be covering how to create any colour out of red, yellow and blue.
-Watercolours (any type/brand fine) *necessary
-Watercolour Paper (the thicker the better) *necessary
-Tape if you have it (painting tape ideal)
-Watercolour Brushes
-Two Cups of Water *necessary
-Paper Towel or Rags
-Hairdryer
All levels are warmly welcomed! For more information feel free to contact Ann at soholifedrawing@gmail.com
Intro to Life Drawing
Zoom Link Emailed after purchase (within 24 hours of class starting)
It's the original Mini Course!
Made for beginners and early stage life drawers looking for guidance, Intro to Online Life Drawing is our original mini-course—a friendly and non judgmental class is designed to equip members with an introductory toolkit they can use when learning to draw.
In the space of two hours, tutor Ann Mackowski will cover a wide breadth of practical introductions and advice for life drawing, including
--Mark-making and Materials
--Composition
--Intro to Gesture Drawing
and
--Foreshortening
You'll also learn a little bit of art history in the process.
Beginners' Draw-Along Workshop
Weds December 7th, 18:00-20:00 UK Time (Zoom Link emailed within 24 hrs of purchase--for any issues or to receive the recording please email Ann at soholifedrawing@gmail.com)
Sit back, relax, and draw along in this brand new beginners' workshop that will have you gesture drawing, tackling perspective, and creating dynamic figures all with the benefit of on-screen, draw along instruction. Using reference photos as a base, tutor Ann Mackowski will be showing you side by side and step by step drawing tutorials that will help you achieve even the toughest poses. Perfect for beginners' new to life drawing, or those of you who have been coming to sessions for a while but would like a more formal understanding of the techniques that figure drawing artists use, this class will follow a mock-live-class format in terms of pose lengths, and will introduce you to the wide variety of techniques that exist in the medium.
We'll be covering
-Gesture and Contrapposto
-Perspective
-Hands
-Faces
-"The Envelope" technique
All that's needed to join are a pencil and paper! We hope to see you there! To join, please click on Zoom link at the date and time of class (emailed to you within 24 hrs of purchase)
New Beginner's Portrait Drawing
Sunday Dec 11, 5pm-7pm UK Time (Zoom Link emailed to your PayPal address after purchase)
In this brand new take on our classic class we’ll learn the basics of creating dynamic, well balanced portraits on any scale. Too many of us struggle with heads that are too large, or eyes that just seem too thick—and getting the right mix of features sometimes feels just impossible. However with the right tools, drawing faces can be both fun and simple! Suitable for complete beginners as well as self-taught artists looking for a catch-up, this class gives simple yet detailed guidance into creating compelling portraits.
You can expect to learn how to draw the human head from any angle, as well as understand how to convey faces in brief when working in smaller scales.
Bring whatever materials you would like—although we would recommend against using charcoal or wet mediums if you are a beginner!
Taught by Soho Life Drawing founder Ann Mackowski, this portraiture class is part of our mini-class series designed to give beginner, early-stage, and self-taught life drawers a leg up. Choosing from a variety of poses and examples from contemporary art and art history, these comprehensive classes allow students to get a more in depth understanding of life drawing as well as one-on-one critiques for those who wish—who can send Ann a photo of one of their works from class for an additional visual mark-up.
Beginners' Watercolour Portraiture (New)
Sunday December 11, 19:30-21:30 UK Time(Zoom Link emailed after purchase within 24 Hrs of Class. Recording available--email for details)
In this brand new watercolour portraiture class we're going to be learning how to create vibrant paintings using a layering technique. As a beginners class, we'll be covering all the basics with a review of how to use watercolours and how to create skin tones before moving on to building form and colour using a special brush technique. In this class you can expect to learn
--How to draft your Watercolour Portrait
--How to build tone and form with Watercolours
--How to use your Brush
--Skin Tone: Colour Combinations
--Creating Skin Tone through Washes
Ann will be using a watercolour palette, although you’re welcome to bring watercolours in tubes. It’s recommended that you bring a set that contains earth tones (Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Crimson, Etc…), but we’ll be covering how to create any colour out of red, yellow and blue.
-Watercolours (any type/brand fine) *necessary
-Watercolour Paper (the thicker the better) *necessary
-Tape if you have it (painting tape ideal)
-Watercolour Brushes
-Two Cups of Water *necessary
-Paper Towel or Rags
-Hairdryer
All levels are warmly welcomed! For more information feel free to contact Ann at soholifedrawing@gmail.com
Egon Schiele: Man and Method
Monday December 12th, 18:00-20:00 UK Time (Zoom Link emailed within 24 hrs of purchase--for recording email Ann at soholifedrawing@gmail.com)
In this class we’ll be learning about master of figure drawing Egon Schiele, and how to incorporate his techniques into your own drawing styles. Through presentation, examples, and plenty of exercises, we’ll be building up your stylistic ability in a friendly atmosphere in a session focussed on enjoyment and experimentation. Bring along whatever materials you have on hand and prepare to channel the mind of one of the 20th century’s most influential figure artists!
You can expect to learn about
--Egon Schiele and his Influences
--Schiele's Drawing Method
--Schiele Drawing Reproduction
--Applying Schiele's Style to your own Drawings
This class is part of Soho Life Drawing’s mini-class series designed to give beginner, early-stage, and self-taught life drawers a leg up. Choosing from a variety of poses and examples from contemporary art and art history, these comprehensive classes allow students to get a more in depth understanding of life drawing as well as one-on-one critiques for those who wish—who can send Ann a photo of one of their works from class for an additional visual mark-up.
Intro to Gouache
Weds Dec 14, 18:00-20:00UK Time (Zoom Link Emailed within 24 Hrs of Purchase)
Curious about Gouache? Gouache paints have the tantalising ability to provide us with oil-painting esque compositions without all the fumes, yet are notoriously difficult to handle. In this class we'll be taking a beginners look at how to use gouache, and the many possibilities contained within this versatile water medium. We'll be covering
--Gouache: How It's Made, and How It's Used
--Creating Colour: Painting Still Lives and People in Gouache
--Brush Technique
After an introduction to the medium and some studies practicing using light and shade and warm and cool colours, we'll be applying our understanding of gouache to painting both from a still life, and from a nude reference. Absolutely all levels are welcome to join--this will be a ground-up foray into the art of gouache painting so no worries if you are completely new to the medium!
Please Bring
--Gouache Paints (any red, yellow, blue and white will do; earth tones including raw Sienna, burnt Sienna, crimson, burnt umber and raw ochre recommended for skin tones)
--Watercolour Paper (Smooth/hot pressed ideal)
--Synthetic Watercolour Brushes
--Hairdryer (optional)
--Paper Towels
--Palette
To join, simply click on the Zoom link at the date and time of class. We hope to see you there!
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Taught by Ann Mackowski