Gavin Bowyer

Fine Art • Portraiture • Design Illustration

Join professional Portraitist, Gavin Bowyer, and learn the essentials of drawing a compelling, lifelike human face. Whether you are an absolute beginner or wish to develop existing skills, this course is for you. Over the two days you will sharpen your drawing ability with simplified procedures using a systematic approach. Gavin will demonstrate each step with pencil and graphite where you will progress from structure and anatomy, to facial features and expression. So, what better way to introduce you to the art of portraiture than a visit to the beautiful Bullclough Art School? You are welcome to bring along a portrait of a loved one or a historical figure you admire to work with.

Gavin will take you through the techniques you need to capture a subject’s likeness. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the structure of the facial features and the principles of anatomical proportion. He will discuss tonal value, lighting and how to show halftones, highlights and shadows to create a realistic three-dimensional form. He will provide one to one tuition and demonstrate his own personal pencil drawing approaches using source photography and working directly from observation. You will learn how to address how to draw the nose, eyes, ears, mouth and render realistic hair. In addition, Gavin will help you create complex textures like wrinkles, bumps, scratches, pores and skin imperfections, in order to create a stunning grisaille inspired portrait. All will be approached in a unique, fun, relaxed setting here at Bullclough and it doesn’t matter if you have never picked up a pencil before.

http://www.bullcloughartschool.com

m: 07710 479852

email : nellieshepherd@me.com

Write to: Bullclough School Of Art

Bullclough

Ford

Leek

Peak District

ST13 7RR

Probably my most difficult art challenge of 2019 has to go to ‘Bean’. A tortoise shell cat that lived its incredible life in Leek with its devoted owners Julie and Andy.

Bean was a camera shy cat full of character and catty determination. Only fleetingly blurry photos remained. An A3 commission was selected and so I began my December journey to capture Bean.

Article by Alan Katz – ‘Painters who just Painted While the Art World Burned

“That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.” Alberto Giacometti

It has been said that we never really know something until we draw it. The way we draw, seems more connected to something biological or psychological within us that forms interpretive awareness and understanding. We can be taught how to abstract what we see through exercises focusing on line, form, light, composition or technique, but the best drawing lessons come from just drawing.

It is true that the more one draws, the more one sees. But it is also true that the more one draws, the more one naturally abstracts the focus. Drawing is where real artistic battles takes place, cementing a strong foundation to build painting skills from.

For Australian artist , Ginny Grayson, every drawing is a battle that makes process ever changing. Grayson explains her work this way..”At its essence my work endeavours to relate to the viewer from a personal level the ‘actuality’ of experience itself. Observational drawing is especially engaging for me – encompassing memory, time, emotion and a high level of concentration. It absorbs, frustrates, excites, terrifies, exhausts and humbles. I often feel blind when drawing from ‘life’, the more I look the more I see. Lucien Freud remarked, “The harder you concentrate the more things that are really in your head start coming out”.

A level of completion in a drawing is difficult for me to attain, there always seems to be more that can be explored, learnt and discovered. But it is a conundrum I am becoming more comfortable with as the physicality and tension that manifests in the work through this response, through the process of drawing, re-drawing layering and erasure, is essential to what I am seeking to communicate in it’s direct link to the visceral and the ambiguous feeling. In the end, the creative struggle is worth the fight through a committed purpose of understanding.

http://www.mutantspace.com/ginny-grayson-drawings-great-humanity/

http://www.artdot.tv/ginny-grayson.html

http://www.paper-works.co.nz/ginny-grayson/

Beginners, novices and intermediate art lovers all welcome. Book your December and January tuition today

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