Drawing Portraits in Pencil
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family.
Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family.
Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
Learn to use this no fuss medium to draw portraits of your friends and family.
Learn to observe and express what you see in simple line and tone.
Explore your sitter's character and have some fun exaggerating what you see. You will learn to apply your new drawing skills as preparation for other projects and ideas.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
course info
Please read all course information below before purchasing tickets for this event.
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Adriaan will share what he has learned drawing portraits at the Airlie Beach Markets in the Whitsundays for over 25 years. He draws on A4 and A3 Visual Art Diaries at an easel and would take 7 to 10 minutes to do one drawing. Sometimes he was commissioned to draw from photographs which would take a little longer.
All sitters are different and observation is critical. Adriaan will address shapes, angles, compositions and tonal values. All eyes are unique, mouths vary, noses vary, hair styles are personal and so identifying. The sitter’s age will determine how many lines you draw. Adriaan will demonstrate all of these things.
We will look at doing portraits in side view, three quarter view and full front view.
We will have some fun and draw caricatures.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that we will be drawing each other and persuade visitors to sit for us.
And … Adriaan will do a drawing of each student during the course. -
Please bring the following on your first day of class:
A4 Visual Art Diary
A3 Visual Art Diary
Fold up table easel
Pencils 2B / 4B / 6B
6B Woodless Graphite Pencil
Conté Carbon Pencil
Retractable knife to sharpen pencils
Rubber
Markers Pens (various sizes)
Several A4 size printed pictures of family members or friends you might wish to draw
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No experience required.
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“Adriaan was supportive and very talented. He was incredibly generous in the way he endeavoured to give his time and attention to each participant no matter what their experience or ability..”
YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Adriaan Vanderlugt
Adriaan began his art career as a graphic designer at an advertising agency in Canada.
In 1969, whilst travelling the world on a motorcycle, he was inspired by Canadian Inuit stone carvings to begin carving wildlife in soapstone.
Adriaan has now been carving bone, stone, wood, marble and metal for over five decades, and his sculptures of animals, birds and fish are held in collections worldwide.
He has completed public art commissions all over Queensland and, in 2003 received a Centenary Medal ’For distinguished service to the arts’.
A recent commission saw Adriaan sculpt in metal a 4m wide Manta Ray and a 4m long Maori Wrasse, part of a project to create Australia’s first underwater sculptures in the Great Barrier Reef.
Adriaan was filmed for an episode for the TV show ‘Colour In Your Life’ hosted by Graeme Stevenson, which has been distributed worldwide.
