If you’ve ever wished you could try your hand at all of those intriguing drawing materials in your favorite art-supply store, this is the workshop for you. Spend a day expanding and reinvigorating your drawing practice by exploring a range of conventional and unconventional media and processes. Not an instructional workshop in drawing, the session instead focuses on playful experimentation, discovering possibilities, and hands-on opportunities for using the media demonstrated. Bring questions, and get ready to try some new things—and to look at some old things in a new way.
Topics covered include:
- Graphite: What do the different grades of pencils do? How are mechanical pencils different than traditional pencils? What about graphite sticks, powder, putty?
- Charcoal: How are compressed charcoal sticks different from vine charcoal? What about charcoal pencils? What is charcoal powder?
- Tools for manipulating drawing media: Erasers, chamois, tortillions, stumps, brushes, cotton swabs.
- Alternative drawing processes: Drawing with brushes and swabs, subtractive drawing, charcoal wash, image transfer, monotypes.
Bring a drawing pad, 9x12 or larger (Strathmore 400 or similar); a watercolor paper pad, 9x12 or larger; a chamois cloth; a kneaded eraser; and a plastic eraser. All other supplies are provided.
Instructor: Jamie Platt
One 6-hour session with lunch break (participants provide their own)
