The Sherbrooke Art Society is running a dynamic drawing and painting class with Hans Von Weerd on Saturday 26 March from 10am to 4pm.
Held at Sherbrooke Gallery, the class is suitable for emerging artists who want to master expert techniques and experienced artists who want to expand their horizons.
Learn how to create a dynamic drawing or painting while capturing a moment that is part of a continuum, including how to:
• Create artwork more about movement or energy than about precision. More about emotion or impression, more than likeness
• Make marks that define contours or delineate planes or shapes, as well as direction which create movement
• Suggest a line or mark, learning the absence of a line can as be more convincing • Be less concerned about mistakes (‘pentimenti’) or imperfect marks/brush strokes. • Use tools that force the artist to be bold and decisive
Exercises include drawing what you see, spontaneity in mark-making, extreme foreshortening and strong perspectives.
Work with objects, projected still images of landscapes, cityscapes, crowds, the human figure and stills from moving images.
What to bring: Paper: White, kraft, and/or pastel; Mediums: Charcoal (sticks or pencils), pastels, ink, watercolor, gouache and acrylics; Tools: Pens, feathers, quills, sticks, cotton buds and brushes.
Cost: Art Society members $175, non-members $190.
