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Intuitive Drawing: Experimental Portrait Art Class with Harriet Gillett

Learn experimental new drawing techniques make your own portraits!
10 Students
Online
£10 pp
1hr
Beginner
What happens in this class?
  • In this portrait drawing class you will learn new ways of working in charcoal, drawing either a self-portrait from a mirror, or if you prefer, a photo (from a magazine/ of a friend).
  • Drawing inspiration from the approaches of the likes of Picasso and Frank Auerbach, as well as from her own practice, Harriet will guide you through a series of shorter and longer poses, encouraging you to use experimental techniques to bring spontaneity and life to your drawing.
  • The class will be aimed at loosening you up with an emphasis on following your intuition and allowing yourself to…
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What you will learn
  • multiple approaches to drawing a portrait
  • ways to be expressive through mark-making
  • you'll learn about some of Harriet's fave artists
What you will need
  • drawing materials: as many as you can:
  • pencil (preferably a softer B pencil- I like 3-8B)
  • charcoal if you have some

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Age Requirement

12
All students under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Flexible cancellation policy

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Your Teacher

Harriet Gillett is a professional artist working across a variety of mediums. Blurring the line between abstraction and figuration, observation and memory, the ideas for her colourful and expressive works are rooted in a love of drawing from life.

In her lessons she teaches the techniques she has developed to really help free yourself up when making art. Elements of chance, and accident plays a big part in her own work so she enjoys teaching techniques to guide your intuition, encouraging guests to tap into the expressive potential mark-making to capture the emotion and character of a subject, and…

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