Multi Media Animal Drawing & Painting

Service Description

In this class, children will paint and draw to produce some vibrant expressive work of animals, and will draw inspiration from the animal kingdom... With the use of all media, you will explore drawing and painting animals from life and from photographs. Week 1: An introduction to animal drawing. Playing with lines, tone, and colour by sketching of moving animals. If you have any specific images you want to work from please bring them in. This exercise is intentionally placed as lesson one to experience loose free mark making. Week 2: Look at Clare's wonderful work and choose to make a watercolour painting inspired by a choice of prints and cards. Week 3: Mark making. In pencil, looking at various master works such as Rembrandt's Elephant, and Sir Edwin Landseer's sketches of dogs. Week 4: Animals in Indian Ink Week 5: Birds in Watercolour Week 6: Have a go painting with feathers in colourful ink, as Clare does full time professionally! Week 7: Drawing your own pet, if you have one please bring in pictures or you can use some images you send in to EDS for printing, multi media provided Week8: Choose your favourite medium to work with this week and we will be painting fish from life from the fishmongers. Clare is a professional working artist living in the borders, and studied at Edinburgh College of Art as well as Leith school of Art. Since, she has designed the front cover for the 25th anniversary of the Scone Game Fair as well as winning the competition for the design of the front cover for the CLA Game Fair 2014. Shortlisted in 2014 for Wildlife Artist of the Year, Clare has worked closely with, and donated paintings to a number of charities including Tusk Trust, Born Free Foundation and GWCT. Some of Clare’s more recent collaborations have included creating colourful, bespoke magnums for Pol Roger Champagne. From producing a vibrant and colourful rainbow trout to be used on the product packaging for Chalkstream Foods to the creation of a stunning silk scarf, there are no bounds to where her beautiful designs can be utilised. We give Clare a warm welcome to The Edinburgh Drawing School! Materials EDS provides: high quality paper, pencils, erasers, pastels, charcoal etc. If you would like to work in oil or acrylic please bring in your own set.