Course Information

This five-day course will begin with a foundation of guided tasks and demonstrations to familiarise you with the ‘tools’ of the course: types of charcoal, drawing cloths, erasers and paper. These tasks are designed to be as useful for someone who has no experience with charcoal, and for those who are refreshing their knowledge to further develop existing skills. Each task will build on the knowledge of the previous, moving towards students working independently, following their own interests and ideas. Each student will use their own imagery, making the tasks personal and individual. Kate will show examples of her own work, ways to use sketchbooks and basic smartphone/tablet photography to record source material for your drawings. You will be working from and responding to your own photographs, in the studio. You’ll be able to work in a range of sizes to suit your ideas. Bring along up to 9 printed photographs of landscape taken by you, all from the same place or from several. Choose images that interest or excite you, rather than ones you think are easy to draw. You’d get better drawings from images that excite you. Home printer paper is all that’s needed, but if you have some on photographic paper that’s fine too, colour or black and white. You’ll need to send some photographs that you take on-site via WhatsApp to Kate from your smart phone or tablet. Please download the WhatsApp app and practice sending images before the workshop, to iron out any issues.