*The workshop runs from 11am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday and attendance on both days is required*
The weekend is all about playfulness and spontaneity, as well as using the imagination! No previous drawing experience is necessary and all materials will be provided.
Day 1
Taking inspiration from Turner’s vivid and abstracted sketchbooks, you will begin the weekend drawing within the elements! You will collect imagery from the sea, sky and foreshore along the Margate coastline (just a stones throw away from Kindred House’s doorstep). Here, Molly will guide attendees with useful tips and helpful advice on how to record their surroundings with a fluid and honest eye, with a focus on pencil line and simple mark making.
Back in the warmth of the Kindred House studio you will draw from your findings (with plenty of tea and biscuits!) creating charcoal drawings, exploring depth, tone and expression.
In the afternoon, looking at Turner’s imaginative landscapes and use of dramatic light, you will experiment painting in gouache and watercolour - working from your charcoal drawings as well as a wide selection of source imagery, provided to support your drawing styles and inspire new marks and brush strokes.
Day 2
For Day two, you will delve deeper into imagination drawings, collage and painting - looking at further inspiration from Turners notes, watercolours and Greek mythology paintings.
To begin the day, you will start at the Turner Contemporary for a spot of inspiration, sketchbook drawing and a look at the beautiful view from the gallery foyer - an ever-changing scene of colour and atmosphere minute to minute!
Back at the studio you will be working from your sketchbooks and source imagery to create paper collages that look at dreamscapes and the imagination.
After lunch you will spend the afternoon developing your collages into more finalised artworks that reflect your findings and discoveries from the weekend.
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